When I was a little girl and people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up I told them I wanted to be a purple flower. My older brother finally told me that people can't turn into flowers so I decided I'd be Tarzan instead.
A childhood belief about plants
others believed things like this
- I remember a girl in my kindergarten class told me she wanted to be a waterfall when she grew up.Anon
- My big brother told me that if you peed in the pool, it would turn purple and chase you.— Elizabeth
- I used to believe that people's brains differed in colours. I always wanted purple brains for some reason.— Katrina
- I used to believe people grew from spores and when we got old, we'd grow leaves and flowers etc— Calvin (from my pet tiger Hobbes)
- When i was younger i thougth that when you grew up you could decide whether you wanted to be a girl or a boy. Anon
- My older brother told me that speed bumps were really dead people covered in cement.— Trina