When I was in about second grader I was starting to question growing up and what actually happened. I noticed that my great grandmother was significantly shorter than my grandma. This confused me because I thought to be older than someone you had to be taller. When I confronted my great grandmother about this she told me she was shrinking. This led me to believe for the longest time that once you reached a certain age you began to shrink back down and eventually turn back into a baby.
A childhood belief about getting older
others believed things like this
- My great grandmother died when I was 9. I didn't go to the funeral because I thought she'd be a skeleton. — Angela
- I used to let go all my balloons so my great grandma would get it in heaven— lissa
- I used to believe that my clothes were shrinking not that I was growing.— Joann
- Grandmother told me if I whistled in the bathroom the devil would come get me because I was whistling for him.— Peanut @ Lake Tawakoni Tx
- My Grandmother once told me she could unscrew her feet. I believed that for years.— Andy Bettison
- I used to believe that if you were taller than someone, you had to be older than them.Anon