i used to believe that as you grew older, you grew taller and never stopped growing. so in my mind a 100 year old person should be 100 feet tall, which baffled me since the elderly that i saw were shrunk and nowhere near even 7 feet tall
A childhood belief about getting older
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that when you are 90 years old, you are also 90 feet tall.Anon
- My dad told me that the reason feet were stinky was because they grew out of your butt.— Veronika
- My dad told me that playing basketball makes you taller. Basketball players are tall, so I believed him.Anon
- When I got my feet measured by the electronic machine, I thought that the machine will squash my feet!— Helen
- a friend of my little sister's had 4 older brothers, so she thought that when you got older you grew a penis!Anon
- my older brother told me that if i didnt clean every bit of dirt out of the prints on my feet, i'd die— chel