grown-ups: getting older

I used to believe that everything was perfect and that their was always a set 'protocol' for everything that happened.

I used to believe that my clothes were shrinking not that I was growing.

I used to believe untill I was five that all adults are born like that and all little children stay little

I thought that adults used to see life in black and white, just like on the pictures they showed me. I couldn't believe they could see colour!

I used to believe that everyone was supposed to live to the age 100 (at which age we would all presumabley drop). People only died earlier due to accidents or illness.

My mum told me her age was 35 every single year and I believed her.
On her '50th' birthday (when I was 10) she got a card from her workmates saying '50' on it. I thought they had sent it as a joke.

I used to believe that true love was eternal.

My Mum told me she was 21. Every year. I was about 10 when I worked it out, which makes my birth a tweenage pregnancy.

i used to believe that kids were born kids and adults were born adults, there was no convincing me otherwise until i was about 13

I used to believe, and so did many of my friends, that by being older you were automatically stronger and could drive a car faster. My dad being the eldest Dad of my mates, gave me quite a bit of kudos

I generally believed in happy endings!

I always thought my mum was really old, like much older than other grown ups - she told me she ate the last Do-do.

Adults lived in continuous perfect harmony with each other.

I used to believe…

That people older than me knew what they were talking about.