getting older

When I was little I didn't comprehend growing old. I thought that when kids grew up they moved out of the family home and never saw their parents again. The parents would then have more children to replace them and so on.
With this in mind I casually asked my mum whether she had had any children before me that I didn't know about!
She was somewhat shocked at my question!

Holly

When I was about five, and didn't understand the whole how and where babies came from, I used to think as we (children) aged our parents would do the opposite and become younger. And once we reached adulthood, we would become the parents and our parents were our children. Death and giving birth did not exist in my mind.

Marisa

I firmly believed that my parents would not die. Old people were old, and that was their lot. It was my parents job to stay about 28 and make sure everyone got to college safely.

As for me, I knew I'd be ten one day, but that was the distant future. Until I got there, I was fine with whatever age I happened to be at.

MJ

I used to think that you keep growing until you die, so around age 70 or 80 or so, you would become a giant. I was scared to see my Great Grandma, (died in 2001), who was about 90 at the time, because I thought she was a giant However when I saw my Grandma and Grandpa I wasn't scared.

Charlie

This must be prefaced by saying that I am a white girl.

When I was about 5 or 6, my best friend and I were playing in the snow. We had just learned about Martin Luther King Jr. that day in school, and we both thought he was a pretty amazing. My friend announced that when she grew up, she was going to be Martin Luther King Jr.; but I had decided that I was going to be Martin Luther King Jr. We got in a huge, tearful fight about it because I knew there could only be one (splitting the world wasn't an option!) and my mom eventually had to come and take me home.

Autumn

When my family was at a mall or movie theatre or some other public place, my parents would often verbally express their aggravation with the "crazy teenagers" being loud or obnoxious or rude. For a long time, I thought the word "teenagers" simply meant people who were rude or just plain "bad."

Michael

I used to believe that when you grew up that you got a book that explained everything because of a calvin and hobbes comic where calvin's dad lied about the book. I remember asking my mom why we had to go to school when we would eventually get a book that explained it all. How gullable.

P3822

I Used to think that anyone older than me would die before me even if they are a week or less older.

Same thing with people younger than me

Spencey

i used to beilive that there was only 29 numbers in the universe and when you reached 29 you turned back into a baby

rasverone

when i was little i thought that when my mom was little she had a different name than she did when she was an adult and i asked her what her name was when she was my age and she told me that she has had the same name all her life! i would geet soooo mad!!!

Anon

I used to think that people were naturally assigned roles in life, such as being a parent or child. Thus, I didn't think anyone grew, they stayed the same way forever. I could never quite figure out why my clothes kept shrinking and I had to get more.

Anon

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

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

Joann

I used to think that everyone lived to 100 and then automatically died. Because 100 is really old and nobody could ever lived past that.

Joey-Joe-Joe

When I was four, I believed that it would be impossible for me to become older than fifhteen. I was absolutely shure I were going to die before I got THAT old.

Gudrun

When I was a kid I thought that grownups came out just like they are.
They grew up inside of their Mothers body and kids will allways stay small.

Dani

when i was4 and a half i thought i would be 5 feet in kindergarten

Katrina S.

When my friend was about 4, her cousin told her that when you graduated from high school, you had to go live in an igloo. My friend started to cry and asked her grandparents if it was true but they laughed at her.

Goonie

when I was young and I would hear a women complain she had crows feet, I believed when you got older you feet changed into,well crows feet. I was about 16 when mom said it and I freaked out. She told me what it really meant.

Anon

When i was 5 i believed humans carried on growing forever until we would reach the height of the ceiling until we died. (Don't ask Why, but i did). However i couldn't understand why my parents and other members of my family stopped growing but i was always convieved i would be taller than them. I'm 19 now and yes i'm taller than my parents, only by 4 ins.

rk