getting older

When I was little I thought that all adults were born adults and my generation was lucky and they were born kids, I also thought that teachers lived at school and doctors lived at the clinic...ect. and only parents got to live in a house...lol

Georgina Tough

I used to believe when adults grew up only 4' 9" or lower are still classified as kids.

Jorge

My brother was born the day before me, only 11 years later.

For a while I think I had him convinced that he was a day older than me, but was a midget, (and that is why he was shorter...) AND therefore,he wouldn't ever get any bigger than he was.

It got him good, but only for a little while.

Craigdude

I thought that adult hood started at age 21. I found out it started at 18. I thought it was weird that you reach adult hood before you finish being a teenager!

Anon

I use to think that teenagers were adults and already had adult lives.

emily

One time, when I was a little girl (about four), my older sister asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I firmly answered, "A man."

She became very upset and argued with me about it, but I was immovably determined. She even ran and told our mother about it. Mom wasn't too concerned. (I am still female, so it appears that mom was right.)

Erin

I used to believe that you graduate high school at age 20.

Anon

When I was a little girl, growing up with fourteen brothers and sisters, our dad would tell stories at the Sunday dinner table. He opened each story by saying, "When I was a little girl . . ." For many years, I worried that that meant that I would grow up to be a man. This was complicated by his constant exhortations to eat our vegetables, "It'll grow hair on your chest!"

Patricia

Until I was about 10 or so, I thought a mother and a woman were the same thing, and i thought you automatically bacame both a mother and a woman on your 21st birthday.

Judy Jugs

When my dad was very little, just two or three, he was in a white family living in an all-black neighborhood. And in fact, even his dad (my grandpa) had a very dark tan and pitch black, curly hair. So, he thought that when you grow up, you turn black. He eventually figured out that there must be something wrong with that theory because his friend, Nate, also two, was black.

Rachel

I used to believe that adults were never children, and i would never be an adult and it would always be the same forever, yup, i did!

Aidan

I used to believe that if I wasn't good I'd turn into a boy, because everywhere people were always saying: "Those boys sure are awful. I wish they could be girls." Or "Dennis, if you acted more like your sister you wouldn't be in this mess." and etc.

Jeyna

when I was younger when people would ask me what I wanted to be I'd always say I wanted to be a davenport(couch)wierd huh!

couch lover

when i was like 3 i thought that when people reached a certain age they would turn the opposite sex. i dunno why.

zack

When I was four whenever people asked me what i wanted to be when I grew up I said a meat eater! One year later our family became vegetarians!

Katherine

when I was young and I would hear a women complain she had crows feet, I believed when you got older you feet changed into,well crows feet. I was about 16 when mom said it and I freaked out. She told me what it really meant.

Anon

When I was little I had a very balanced, cyclical view of life. First of all, I thought little boys grew up to be "big girls" (i.e., women) and little girls grew up to be "big boys" (i.e., men). When my parents told me I would never be a big boy, I cried.

At the same time, I also thought that young people got old and old people young. By the time I was my grandmother's age, she would be my age! I don't remember when this illusion was shattered.

robin