As I was probably the most clumsiest kid in neighborhood, I watched my older "friends" playing and I was thinking how great it would be if I grew up instantly and would be much smarter than everyone else.
A childhood belief about getting older
others believed things like this
- I remember thinking that non-English speakers were much smarter because they could speak "so much faster." Anon
- I used to think that I was smarter than adults. Now I know kids are smarter than adults in many ways— Marshall M
- a friend of my little sister's had 4 older brothers, so she thought that when you got older you grew a penis!Anon
- when I was growing up I truly believed that my neighborhood was the only neighborhood with "THE CORNER"— Brid
- I used to think that when I ate vegetables I will be smarter.— Dark_X_Raider
- When i was little my older brother said rocks grew in your poop, so i went digging and never found anyAnon