My Grandmother used to tell us whacky made up stories all the time. One time when i was a kid she told me she was young and beautiful because she had gotten a face lift. I believed her all my life until five years ago that i brought up the subject and my mother told me it wasnt true.
A childhood belief about getting older

others believed things like this
- My Grandmother once told me she could unscrew her feet. I believed that for years.— Andy Bettison
- i told my mother that sex was when two people get naked and tell ghost stories.— linds
- I used to belive if someone liftes you up, and you lift them at the same time, you will float in the air.— D'Anthony
- my mother told me if i ever swallowed chewing gum i'd turn into a pig, i believed this for many years.— stuart hayward
- as a kid, i was told by my older cousins that i wasnt human until i turned 7 years old.— twk
- I used to believe that gum was made outta pig fat becuase of what my dad told me. I believed him for years.— Maddy