I believed that adults knew everything. Literally. And since I'd heard somewhere that 18 was the official age when one becomes an adult, I thought that when I turned 18 everything would just come to me and I'd be like, "whoa".
A childhood belief about getting older
others believed things like this
- That boys turned into women when they became adults and girls turned into men when they became adults. Anon
- I used to believe that school was a place kids go to get turned into adults.— Samantha
- I used to think that prostitutes were female lawyers. It just sounded so official...— MC
- as a kid [until age 7] I used to believed that the tv
reporters were literally sitting inside the tv! — nüel - My dad used to tell me that Hostess Snowballs were only for adults. I believed him for many years— Jamie
- That adults came into the world as adults and were never childrenAnon