When I was a kid, my friends and I all had kid-sounding first names, like "Billy", "Chris", or "Steve". Grown-ups had names like "Frederick", "Sherman", or "Franklin". So I thought that once you become a grown-up, you have to change your name. This really upset me, because I liked my name so much.
A childhood belief about getting older
others believed things like this
- I thought grown ups were born grown ups.— mea
- I used to believe that grown-ups were born "grown up" and that I would stay a little kid forever.— Still A Kid
- I used to believe that grown-ups were born grown up.— Juleen
- I used to think that Aretha Franklin's name was Urethra Franklin. Anon
- As my parents had given me a name, I thought that it was up to me to give them names tooAnon
- I used to wander what my name would be in other languages. I thought that names worked the same way as words. — Simon