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i used to believe that people never stopped growing. i was very concerned about this for logistical reasons, and it took my parents months to grasp that when i repeatedly asked "what happens when you get too big for your house," i was not speaking metaphorically. for some reason i never noticed there weren't gigantic 20ft+ people around everywhere.
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I was convinced that your clothes would grow right along with you. I was happy to know I could wear my favorite shirt forever.
Cho
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When I was a child, I used to believe that my father was as young as me. He was born on the 14th. of april and I was born on the 16th., just two days later! I didn't understand the time and why he seemed older and wrinkled than me.
Gaps
When I was little. I always thought that when grown ups were young I was old and that when I became old again, the grown ups would become young again.
Escoban
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As a young child I believed that when I turned into an adult I'd have to go in the store naked to get adult clothes.
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I thought that enchiladas were an inch long (inch-aladas). Before I had a good grasp on what an inch was, I thought this meant that an inch was fairly big, the size of an enchilada. I kept assuming that an inch was big, bigger and bigger until I was set straight after declaring that a car was an inch long.
Aretia
When I was about 4 years old I thought that exactly halfway through your life you turned into the opposite sex.
Dave XIV
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I was the youngest of 5 children. The three oldest were 10, 11, and 12 years older than me. I believed that as I grew up, they would get smaller, so I would have a fair chance at getting them back.
Valerie
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My oldest sister is 15 years my senior. I used to think that she was older than my mom.
Callie
I used to believe that if you were a boy when you were born then you grew up to be a girl & vice versa. Thanks Grandpa.... then my Dad tried to convince my kids of the same thing - luckily they were smnarter than me - imagine my embarassment when i went to school & told people that my Grandpa used to be a little girl!
HLS
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I used to believe that when a person got old, they turned Italian- as a child the only old people I knew actually spoke Italian, I had never come in contact with a non-Italian senior.
Jennifer Radcliffe
i used to believe that everyone was born as the opposite sex, and that you changed when you started school.
llama
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I believed that people in the fifties couldn't see in color. When I was about eight years old I said to my mother, "Mom, when did you start seeing in color?" She was born in 1953.
Evie
The day I turned nine I had to ask my mother how old I was going to be. Sarcastically, she answered, "Nine hundred! How old do you think you are, dummy?!" I went all the rest of that week thinking I was nine hundred years old.
Kaylee
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I used to think that "gentlemens clubs" were where guys went to dress fancy with top hats and tuxes and they were there to have dinner parties.
Catherine
I used to believe that good wins over evil but... then santa didn't show up and i grew up! :)
zhiges
when i was around 6 or 7, I asked my grandmother how did she get wrinkles and she told me that some guy in Colombia named Carlos did them for her. I didnt want to be rude and ask "why because wrinkles make you look ugly?' Not until i was around 11 or 12 i realized it was old age.
She doesnt remember telling me that story -__-
Christian
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When my husband was about 4 years old he asked his great grandma "you were around at the time of dinosaurs,what was it like?" The whole family fell off their chairs laughing!
AMY
I used to believe that halfway through your life, you switched gender.
bonnie
When I was young I had a babysitter who took hormone pills but she said "homeown" (say it in your head), so I thought that when you owned a house you had to take pills.
I also believed that when playing in the ocean and the waves went over you they were actually going through you.
Olivia
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