grown-ups: getting older

When I was little, most of the grownups in my grandparents' generation were immigrants. I believed that when you get old, you acquire an accent. After all: all the old people had accents, and none of the young ones did.

I used to think i was old first and over time you become a kid.

When I grew up, I was going to be a mom with no kids.

I used to believe…

impatient at my growth rate,i used to belief that by stepping into my mum's footprints when i was 8 or 9 will actually make me grow older until she caught me one day,after telling her my reason,she explained it doesnt make one grow faster.

when i was four years old, i asked my mum how old she was. she said '21', as lying about one's age was common among women in those days (and, of course, still is!). When, two years later, her birthday arrived, I sent her a card saying 'happy 23rd birthday, mummy!'. She was 44. i guess when you are a small child one adult looks very much like another - whether they are 16 or 61!

Up until the age of about 6 I always believed that people were born as either adults or children; I was one of the unlucky ones I used to think until the day I could switch the light switch off without standing on something, which made me realise I was in fact growing up

When I was young, I used to believe that Life was in 4 steps. At birth, your a child until ur 25, then ur an adult until your 50, then old until your 75, then it's Golf and Bingo until your 100!

i used to believe my mum was older than my dad because her birthday was before his. my dad encouraged this thought until the day i realised i was wrong.

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

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.

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!

my olds always told me i could be whatever the heck i wanted. i wanted to be a guy.

When I was about 4 years old, my older cousin who was a boy, told me that boys were always older than girls, and I believed him until I was about seven years old.

I used to believe that kids got older while grown-ups got smaller.

My father, the loving man he is, told me that when i turned twelve, I would turn into a boy. But my sister (who was thirteen at the time) was a girl. I pointed this out to him, and told me that Heather had been a boy untill she turned twelve. From then on I had my mom buy me boys clothes so that I would be prepared. I was pissed off when I turned twelve and was still a girl.

this isn't relly about me but my brother used to think that when you got older you tured the opposite sex. so one day he said "dad, what was it like when you were a girl?"