getting older

I used to believe that when someone was so old that they only had gray hair on their head left, they would die from it. My parents told me this to trick me into picking their gray hair.

Waffo

I used to believe that when you get older you start loosing certain parts of your body. Like limbs, eye sight, etc.

Stupid

Once when I was, I guess 7 or 8, I woke up in the morning and, finding myself not being able to remember falling asleep, drew the obvious conclusion: I must have been a baby when I fell asleep, and now I was a big kid! So I strut downstairs like the big kid that I know I am, go straight up to my mom, and say, "notice anything differant about me?". She looked at me, and clearly stumped, replied "no, you look the same to me." I was crushed.

Isobel

I used to believe that people who were in their "early twenties, etc." or "late twenties, etc." actually aged either slower or faster than everyone else.

Sarah

When I was about four or five, my grandmother had told me that because her birthday was on the 24th, and mine was on the 29th of the same month, that when she died and didn't have anymore birthdays, I wouldn't have anymore either, and I wouldn't get any older!

Elizabeth

I used to think there were FOUR genders: Boys, girls, 'wrinkly boys', and 'wrinkly girls'. I was growing up with my grandmother as a third parent, but I was convinced she wasn't the same gender as me and my mom; how could a girl's skin get so wrinkly like a...a wrinkly girl's skin!?

On a similar note, I used to think height was the end-all indicator for age, so for a while I thought my dad was older than my grandmother (his mom). Years later, I actually believed that once you reached a certain age, you would shrink until you died from being old.

A-chana

I used to believe that my clothes would get bigger so I could always wear them. My mother would tell me that some piece of clothing had "gotten too small" and I would insist that it would get bigger. I guess I figured that if I gotten bigger, and the clothes had "gotten smaller," they could also get bigger, since they were clearly changing size already.

Jillian

When I was about 5 I thought my mom and dad came into being the same time I did! For some reason they didn't exist before me, and neither did anyone else. Some people just came into existence older than others and then everyone got to grow up. I was shocked to see our photo's of my siblings when they were younger.

Anon

I had never noticed kids younger than me or pregenant women until I was 13 or 14. So I thought my friends and I were always the youngest of the whole population. When we die, there would be no people on earth.

Tania

I used to believe that grownups were born grownups and children would always be children and that grandmas and grandpas were just people who cared for you that were old and I never realized that they were your parents parents and I never realized there was such thing as "growing"

Anon

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.

Artamnesia

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

Igor

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

Anon

that when I grew to be an adult my parents would be children.

Rainbow

I thought that when I grew up I would have really curly hair for some reason (it's as straight now as it was then). I would also have an oak-panelled study and I'd sit and write in it and be stressed out. I'd have a nervous maid who'd bring me coffee on a tray. She looked kind of like the maid on the Cluedo box. None of this looks set to come true.

I later thought that when I turned 16 I'd be beautiful, have a boyfriend, and never say the wrong thing. Sad really

Anon

My dad had me convinced that I would turn into a boy when I turned twelve. By the time I did turn twelve, I was 99.99% convinced he was wrong-but I checked anyway.

Heather

as a little girl of about 6 years old, i used to think that when i grew up i would change into a boy. the turn around age was about 18--i figured that god would want us to have a taste of both sides of the coin. the change hasn't happened yet (i am 25)--maybe i'm just a slow developer?

janita

Someone told me that when you reached the fine old age of 15(my curret age) that your brain cells started to decrease.So I thought that eveyone over the age of 15 didn't have a brain!

midnight

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

Richard Courtney

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