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I wanted to grow up and become a marine biologist, which seemed to me the perfect combination of studying nature and shooting people.

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When I was little my younger brother said he had been really old before, then he grew to be young.

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I thought firefighters were really "firefires," and burned houses down insted of putting them out.

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When I was about 2 or 3, my older sister would never like me to go out with my dad when she was going out, so she would tell me that there was a big monster outside who would eat little kids like me, so when they would be outside i'd watch from the window and my sister would warn me when the monster was coming and i'd run and hide!haha

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when i was about five my step dad and my mom were going on a honey moon, it had been my first time hearing the words honey moon, so i asumed it was a moon made of honey, i knew honey was a liquid so i was in fear of them drowning

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When I was little I was afraid to get married. I thought that if you were to get married you would get pregnant [if you were a girl of course].I'm not good when it comes to pain, no one is. But I was paranoid.

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that my brother was a girl and when he was 12 i thought he was pregnant and was going to have a baby

— catherine neillgrown-ups : family

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When i was a little toddler i used to belive that U had to pick whether u wanted to be a kid or a mommy or a grandma... I used to cry deciding wotch one....

I used to believe you could literally be "anything" when you grew up. So when people asked, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" I told them what, after long deliberation, I had decided to be:
"A horse."

— Charlotte Avantgrown-ups : work

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when i was little i used to think that every old woman was my granny. so whenever we'd go to the beach or anywhere at all basically i used to wander off and come back with a few old ladies with me. they loved me!

I used to think my dad worked on the moon (and was the man on the moon in all those kids songs) because when my dad went to work, my mum said he was going to the moon.

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When I was 4 my parents told me my baby sister was coming the next summer. Shortly after I started having the dream that I dropped my sister in a witches brew and my parents disowned me. Back then I thought dreams told the future so when she was born I refused to hold her because I was afraid I would be disowned. I refused to even go into the kitchen till I was 6 if she was in there.

— crazy-lizzygrown-ups : family

I used to believe that every time my parents would go out of the house, just to like get the paper or something, i would think that they were running for the car to leave me here forever. Now I beg them to leave so I can have some alone time!

— Elizabethgrown-ups : family

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im grade 2, my teacher said that she was 2000 years old and i belived her

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Til the age of around 9, I believed that everyone never got any older, getting old was their punishment from God. I thought old people were born old, and so on.

I also thought the whole world was my state till the age of 8 when I was sadly proved wrong when my family took a flight to the eastern coast to visit relatives.

— Chelsea in Californiagrown-ups : getting older

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when i was little, my sister (who is three yrs older than me) was making me angry so i said to her, u just wait until im older than u!!
she killed herself laughing and i didnt understand y!

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When I was four my mom gave birth to my brother.When he would do something cute they would say he was "acting like a little nut".The only other time heard this word "nut"was when my dad was changing a flat tire on our car,so i freaked when we were driving one day and we heard a rattle from the front of the car and my dad said it sounded like we had a loose nut in the hub cap.I crawled over the front seat to make sure my brother hadn't gotten out of the car some way and hid in the hubcap and when I saw him laying in my moms arms my next immediate thought was after we'd get another flat my dad would bring back a new baby.

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When my younger brother was little he reguarly told my mum that he wanted to marry her. So would that mean my mum would be my sister-in-law or my brother would be my step dad?

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when i was young i thought that all grown ups changed their name when they got older so they would sound more professional

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When my little brother was about four or five, he explained to me that he expected us both to grow up and our parents to actually become younger from a certain point on. In his imagination, brothers and sisters ALWAYS got married later on - and the parents then ALWAYS turned into their children! It still makes me smile, and I also think this idea is cute... every family remains an intact unit!

— Mina Meangrown-ups : family