When I was 3, I was at home with the chicken pox and I remember I was curled up in my mom's lap. I asked her if grandmas and grandpas got smaller as they got older and turned back into babies. I remembered people saying that old people got shorter and just thought maybe they turned into babies again.
A childhood belief about getting older
others believed things like this
- Before I knew about death, I used to think people turned back into babies again after they got old. Anon
- When I was a kid I thought babies where made when people hold hands and kissed nude...— Ryan
- I used to believe that when people talked about 4x4 trucks, I thought it meant all the wheels turned.
— tracy - I used to believe when you had chicken pox, you turned into a chicken— Shirley
- When I was young my mother told me that old people kind of shrink. I thought that they shrunk into babies.— dont know
- I used to believe that when people eloped that meant they were making babies...Anon