When I was 5, I was on an airplane when I heard a man ask an older man how old he was. He may have said "71" or "81" but I only heard "one". For a long time I thought that we start back at 1 once we got to 100 years old.
A childhood belief about getting older
others believed things like this
- whenever i heard a melody, i thought it stuck in my stomach when i heard it in my mindAnon
- The first time i heard of someone getting fired from a job, i thought that they were actually set on fire.Anon
- For years I heard the word "pedophile" and thought it meant a pedicurist's tool.— Lauren
- When I was young, I heard the word 'minion' for the first time and thought it was a miniature onion.— Karin
- As a kid every time I heard a person say "it's about time" I always replied "so what about it?"— Eli the Kid
- When I first heard of Amsterdam I thought it was "Hamster's Den"— Bootlebat