When I was a kid I noticed that adults [liek my parents] were bigger than me, and that adults older than my parents [like my grandparents] were shorter than my parents, I thought you grew up till you were big, then you shrank back down till you were kid sized and started all over again ...
A childhood belief about getting older
others believed things like this
- I believed we were little kids till we were 17, and at our 18th birthday we woke up as adults.— Hoppip
- I used to believe my parents names were mom and dad till i was 9— Sophiae
- That adults came into the world as adults and were never childrenAnon
- I used to believe when adults grew up only 4' 9" or lower are still classified as kids.— Jorge
- Ironically my parents were born on the same day; so growing up, I thought all parents had the same birthdays. Anon
- That boys turned into women when they became adults and girls turned into men when they became adults. Anon