When I was little I believes you changed your name when you got older or married as all the adults had lames like Irene, Valerie, Neville, Brian - no one little had names like that so I thought you got to pick another one when you got older.
A childhood belief about getting older
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that one day, my younger brother would be older than me and then he'd pick on me!— Andrew
- i used to think that every family had a brother and sister and they married eachother when they got olderAnon
- a friend of my little sister's had 4 older brothers, so she thought that when you got older you grew a penis!Anon
- I thought that Dad's were always older then Mom's, come to find out my mom is a few months older than my dad.— Nicole
- I thought my grandad would get older, so I asked him 'What do you want to be when you're older?'.— Afterlife Dreamin'
- when i was really young, i couldn't figure out why i can't get older than my older sister.— angela