When I was a kid, I would always see a really tall guy (he was in his teens) at my church. He was really tall, he'd literally have to bend down to get past a door frame.
So I told myself he was a hundred years old.
Then, to explain why old people look old and he still looked pretty young, I told myself that first you look young, then look old, and after that "old stage" you start to look young again.
A childhood belief about appearance
others believed things like this
- I was told as a young child that if I didn't smile going past the police station, I wouldbe arrested.Anon
- I used to believe that when you are 90 years old, you are also 90 feet tall.Anon
- When I was young my mother told me that old people kind of shrink. I thought that they shrunk into babies.— dont know
- When I was really young I used to think that dead bodies wouldn't start rotting until they were buried.— Katherine
- That everyone had the same amount of skin and that short people were fat and tall people were skinny.Anon
- i used to think water towers were houses for really tall people. I thought they had big heads to.— Alyssa