My mum told me her age was 35 every single year and I believed her.
On her '50th' birthday (when I was 10) she got a card from her workmates saying '50' on it. I thought they had sent it as a joke.
A childhood belief about getting older
others believed things like this
- I thought a Debit card was actually called a Debt card.— Kilgore
- My parents have the same birthday -- month, day, and year. I though all mom's and dad's had the same birthday.— Cait
- iwas told that if u cry on your birthday you would not get any bigger 4 a whole year— steve
- i thought I got one year older when my family sang the birthday song.— I am the ghost
- My birthday was on a different day every year, assigned by my parentsAnon
- I used to think that your birthday changed every year, and that your parents just decided what day it was.— Daniel