My brother is six years older than me. For a reasonable amount of time I was pretty sure that eventually I would grow to be older than him someday...
A childhood belief about getting older

others believed things like this
- My older brother used to tell me if you ate raw potatoes your teeth would grow long and curly!— Lauren
- My brother that is 6 years younger than me used to believe that in seven years he would be older than me.Anon
- My older brother once told me that Aussie shampoo was made from kangaroo pee. I avoided using it for years!— Annie
- I used to believe that we had a finite amount of skin and that I would eventually run out due to pealing.Anon
- a friend of my little sister's had 4 older brothers, so she thought that when you got older you grew a penis!Anon
- when i was really young, i couldn't figure out why i can't get older than my older sister.— angela