getting older

I used to believe that we were all born one way; as adults or as children. I thought that I would live until the age of about nine and then die.

Laura

I remember being upset at three years old thinking that my dad would keep growing, like kids did, and not be able to fit through the kitchen door.

Brenda

I used to belive as i got older my parents would get younger and i would have to take care of them as babies until there body couldn't age as fast then they would die

beep41

I thought I used to be big. I'd say "When I used to be big I could tie my shoes." or "When I used to be big I could read." I really believed it in my head. Just a small attempt at control from a small child.

Jana Pana

When I was a child, I used to believe I would never get old.

Luiz Guilherme - Yazigi

My sister, 2 years younger, was older. She had her birthday in october where as mine was december so she had to be older!

storm

My dad told me that when he was little, he looked up at his own dad and asked, "When I'm grown up like you, will my feet still reach the ground?"

Kim

I thought my grandad would get older, so I asked him 'What do you want to be when you're older?'.

Afterlife Dreamin'

I thought that when I grew up I HAD to start wearing polyester like my mom.

levi lady

My younger sister got so upset at always being younger than I. So, one time when I threw in her face "I am older than you, that's why" she answered "Wait until I get older than you!" I tried to correct her, telling her it would never happen. She stated, matter-of-factly, "After you turn 24, you start counting backwards! I will be older than you then!"
Now that we are both past that age, I remind her often that i am actually younger than she is... and will be until we start counting forward again! My poor sis, she just can't win!

Tina Principe

There is 18 months between my sister and I. I am the youngest. I used to believe that I would catch her up in age, as I was 4 she was 6, then I would turn 5 in the middle of the year, and think I was getting older than her.

Kelly

When I was about 5 years old I must have seen some documentary about the ancient Egyptians. I was horrified when I saw what they did to people when they mummified them. Somehow I thought this practice still went on today and became terrified. I was so worried that I used to pray to God everynight to ask him to stop anyone from mummifying me when I grew up.

Susan S

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!

anon

I am a little Daddy's girl and when I was little my parents and grandparents used to say I could be anything I wanted to be, no matter what it was. Well I went around telling people I was going to be a Daddy when I grew up. How embarrassing

Amanda

i use to think that you would never stop growing and you'd get too big for your house. my parents didn't get it when i kept asking like "what happens when you get too big for your house?"

also once my neighbor got extensions and told me they had glued hairs one by one onto her real hair and i honestly believed this was a common process for many years...

Q

I used to believe that grown-ups were born "grown up" and that I would stay a little kid forever.

Still A Kid

I once thought people would keep growing until they were as big as buildings if they didn't go to the doctor.

Tufty

my grandmother is the second oldest of six sisters and a brother, and she's a very short woman. several of her younger sisters are a bit taller than her, and my mother is pretty tall. I was also a very tall child. this led me to believe that when getting old, people actually "shrunk", and eventually disappeared. this was a short lived-belief: my uncle was very tall, and I went to his funeral.

Shortening SerotoNina

I used to believe that when you got to a certain age you got to choose whether you wanted to be a boy or a girl if you were a girl. And I used to feel bad for boys because they already grew into boys and didn't get a choice xD

Anon E. Mus

You know how many old ladies like to perm or curl their hair by some other way? I somewhy figured out that while woman's hair turns gray, it also becomes curly at the same. I never thought about why old men's hair doesn't curl the same way.

I realized, that the hair doesn't curl by itself just few days ago, and I'm 14.. I feel sort of stupid now.

Jaakko