getting older

when i was younger, i didn't like it that my brother was older and therefore stronger and cleverer than me. one day someone told me that i would be as old as him some day. i thought that meant that when he was about 20, i would catch up and be 20 aswell. i'm still waiting

The Dipper

i had a younger cousin.. and when we asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up he responded "a girl". he continued this desire to be a girl for about a year, and truly believed that it was possible, just like someone becomes a fireman, he could become a girl.

Emily

when i was a little kid i beleived i was never going to grow up, i was going to be a kid forever. i thaught grown ups were born already grown up and that was how you got to be a grown up.

jessica

My sister is two years older than me, and when I was a little kid, I believed it was possible for me to some day catch up in age with her and maybe even be older than her! At my birthday every year, I would anxiously check to see if we were closer in age than we had been before the birthday, but we never were...

Catherine

I used to think that grown-ups were always grown-ups and kids will always be kids

Smurfette

I was always a big kid. I was the only one in the elementary school who ordered the plain milk cartoons. I thought that it was why i was so tall. It had aged me. Thi smade me sad because i thought when i hit 30 i'd look 70.

britishbroccoli

My grandmother had alzheimers, and when I was little and heard the grown-ups talking about it, I always thought they were saying "old-timers".

Anon

I used to believe that grown-ups got scared because they were so high off the ground.

Sammy

I noticed that there were lots of short old people so i used to believe that when you became an old person, you would start shrinking again.

Anon

When I was in kindergarten (about 5 or 6), some kids in my class had gotten into the conversation whether or not God ever danced. My mom always told me she was SO OLD she knew Wilma Flinstone, George Burns' mother, etc., so I proceeded to stand up and tell everyone that I would ask my mom because she was from the "olden days" and she'll know if God ever danced (she was only about 38-40 at the time).

To this day I'm reminded by my mom that I told everyone she'd know if God danced. I can't live it down!

Annabelle

I couldn't count any higher than 10 when I was about 5 years old or so. I used to think that people would grow up and age one by one but once they got to 10 they would start going back down. For example, you turn 9 then 10 then back to 9 and then 8 and so on, just go up and down between 1 and 10 until you die.

I'm an idiot!

Annabelle

I used to think that every year you grew taller and taller. I was afraid that my mom and dad, because they were so much older than me, would turn into giants and accidently step on me!

Kelcey M.

"I thought Grown-ups were always Grown-ups. And that children would always be children. What a major disappointment when my mother showed me pictures of herself as a child. I knew than that I too would have to grow up one day. Now that really sucked."

Karin Lyn

When I was a kid, I could not possibly believe that ANYONE would want to grow up and leave their parents. I was about 6 and told my mom that when I grew up I was NEVER going to leave her! And now I know why we grow up and move out.

Emma

I am a little Daddy's girl and when I was little my parents and grandparents used to say I could be anything I wanted to be, no matter what it was. Well I went around telling people I was going to be a Daddy when I grew up. How embarrassing

Amanda