You know how when you're little your parents tell you that you can be anything you want when you grow up? Well I took that literally and wanted to be an elephant when I grew up.
A childhood belief about getting older
others believed things like this
- I wanted to be an elephant when I grew up. — Vix
- I used to believe that all my energy "came from my nipples and my back" I literally said that to my parents.— Eleanor R
- I used to believe that I really COULD be anything I wanted to be when I grew up. I wanted to be a unicorn. Anon
- I used to believe that cars grew and that our car would grow to big to go under the McDonalds drive-thru.— Mary Ellen
- I used to believe people grew from spores and when we got old, we'd grow leaves and flowers etc— Calvin (from my pet tiger Hobbes)
- I used to think a mustache grew out of your nose hairs. I tried to let mine grow, but it didn't work. — Barry