getting older

i used to believe that as you grew older, you grew taller and never stopped growing. so in my mind a 100 year old person should be 100 feet tall, which baffled me since the elderly that i saw were shrunk and nowhere near even 7 feet tall

michaela

I used to believe all adults with jobs didn't have to take care of themselves or sleep, have a house, eat, an drink. I also believed adults with jobs never got sick.

Anon

I used to believe that I could control the outcome of a situation if I thought the opposite was going to happen. For instance, if I needed to ask my dad for money, I would imagine him telling me no then he would say yes. I didn't realize how terribly wrong I was until I turned 15 and he told me to get a job.

Ubernaive

When I was eight or so, I was at the mall with my mother and got bored, so I looked through the greeting cards for something to do.

One of them had a message "you're not old until the fat lady sings" and when I opened it, it had an illustration of a large woman singing. I was worried that I'd then turn into an old woman.

Anon

I used to think bumper cars or dodgems were for kids under 16 to take driving lessons, especially if they had their mum or dad with them! I'm glad I never drove one with my dad, and I don't drive now as an adult, or he'd probably shout at me in the passenger seat about being a rubbish driver, knowing what dads are often like with their daughters!

Natasha

I used to think that everyone's birthday, including my own, always had to be on a Sunday.

Anon

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

Mark

i used to be very afraid of growing up, because that would mean that my body would continue growing larger and larger to the point that i would be a freaky giant with no place to stay and no friends/family of "my size".

mike tee

When i was 5-6,i think....I USED TO BELIEVE that the our names change when we are 'big' and i was thinking a lot what my name shall be,i wanted to prepare myself...

Windy

Growing up I believed that as time would go by you would automatically get wiser! I belived this for years and years. Now that I am fairly grown myself, I have learnt that in order to get wiser you have to apply yourself.

Annie

My sisters are 11 and 13 years older than me - 18 months apart. I used to believe that I would catch up to them and then we would all get older together.

Angela

When I was a little girl I used to believe that when I grew up I'd turn into a man.

Jessica

I used to believe that all grown-ups had an alcoholic drink when they got home from work. My parents used to watch Dallas and Dynasty and the first thing that people did when they got home was fix themselves drinks from their bar

CK Bradsher

I was born in 1955. I remember as a kid calculating that if I could stay alive until at least the age of 45 I would live to see the 21st century. I thought I might just squeak by and make it but it was by no means certain because 45 was very old. 

Rocketeer 

impatient at my growth rate,i used to belief that by stepping into my mum's footprints when i was 8 or 9 will actually make me grow older until she caught me one day,after telling her my reason,she explained it doesnt make one grow faster.

tomilola

I used to think that every year you grew taller and taller. I was afraid that my mom and dad, because they were so much older than me, would turn into giants and accidently step on me!

Kelcey M.

I always used to hope that when I turned 21 I'd get the chance to choose whether I was a man or a woman.

Imagine my disappointment when I found out I couldn't switch.

Anon

I used to believe that one day I would just wake up a teenager. I would have physically grown up and matured over night. The thing that worried me the most was, what would I wear when this happened until I could go shopping for bigger clothes?

Shirin

I used to think that growing up happened overnight. That I would one night go to bed and wake up and grown woman. I would pray when I went to bed that the next day I could be a grown-up and start my grown-up life!

Lil Nicki

When I was about eight years old my mom asked me one day, what do I want to become when I grow up? I told my mom that I want to become a boy or a man, because i thought that we change gender in a certain stage of growing up.

Riz