When I was about three years old my dad said that he was ten years old and I believed him.
A childhood belief about getting older

others believed things like this
- For years and years I believed that tuna must be really little fish because they came in such small cans!!— Gisela
- My mum used to tell me she used to be a cave man and i believed it for years. Anon
- For years and years I thought telephone poles grew.— Maureen
- My Mum told me if I ate too much toast I would get cancer! I couldn't eat it for years and years...— Pauliboy
- My dad used to tell me that Hostess Snowballs were only for adults. I believed him for many years— Jamie
- I believed for years that the sun and moon were the same thing - it just glowed more in the day :)— Deb