I was the youngest of 5 children. The three oldest were 10, 11, and 12 years older than me. I believed that as I grew up, they would get smaller, so I would have a fair chance at getting them back.
A childhood belief about getting older

others believed things like this
- My oldest sister is 15 years my senior. I used to think that she was older than my mom.— Callie
- a friend of my little sister's had 4 older brothers, so she thought that when you got older you grew a penis!Anon
- I believed you could dry your hands with hot water, until i got a chance to try it.— A A RENN
- that when I grew to be an adult my parents would be children.— Rainbow
- When I children, I used to believe that the frog grew then was forming until that tunerd in a lizard — Luis
- I used to think that 'Child Locking' only worked on children and that older people could still open the door.— Anonymous Whistleblower