When I was very small, I remember believing that the natural progression of age would transform me from a daughter to a son, then to a mother, then to a father, then a grandmother, then a grandfather. I guess I didn't understand the mechanics of gender yet.
A childhood belief about getting older
others believed things like this
- i used to believe that mother and father didn't sleeped— yacine.tah du 91
- When I was small my Grandfather told me that the reason I had freckles was from throwing pebbles in the sewer!— All Grown Up Now!
- When my daughter was small she developed tonsillitis but she told everyone she had "tongues and lighters"— Jeannie Bee
- I couldn't understand why my grandmother wore an ear-grenade (hearing aid). It sounded very dangerous to meAnon
- i used to think a small man named homer lived in my grandmother's freezer and made ice. — ana
- I never did understand why it was "Our Father, who aren't in heaven".— Edith