When i was little my friends actually got me to belive that when you would grow up u would change so that if you were a girl when u grew up u would become a boy, and the same if you were a boy but just opposite. it took me 6 years to figure it out that it was untrue
A childhood belief about getting older

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if I could kiss my elbow that I would turn into a girl (the opposite sex).— Rusty
- when i was 6 i used to belive if u ate ur toe nails u would grow a foot in ur stomach— chris
- i used to belive that kidney beans were bean shaped things that grew in kidneys... untill yesterday — Jokey
- I used to believe that cars grew and that our car would grow to big to go under the McDonalds drive-thru.— Mary Ellen
- i thought that when it was your birthday you grow and then you didn't grow until a years time.— hello
- I used to believe people grew from spores and when we got old, we'd grow leaves and flowers etc— Calvin (from my pet tiger Hobbes)