getting older

when i was really young, i couldn't figure out why i can't get older than my older sister.

angela

I used to think that when you turned 20 you were "officially" an adult. That meant you had to graduate college, get married and have a baby all that year. I'm 21 now and extremely thankful that I was mistaken

Jessica

When I was younger, in most of the couples that I knew, the man was older than the woman. This somehow gave me the idea that men always grow up to be older than women. The younger son of my mom's friend was harassing me by saying that he was older than me. His mom said "No, Christopher, she is older." I matter-of-factly told her, "I'm older right now, but he's sort of right becuase boys always grow up to be older than girls." I was quite confused when she set me straight.

Erika

When I was young my parents & I lived in another city than both of my grandparents.
All my grandparents lived in a retirementflat in the city of The Hague, NL. So I thought at an age of 5yrs old that every ones grandparents lived in The Hague, and that that city was especially designed for grandparents to live

Jerome, NL

This i actually what my little brother belived. I had started school and did my homework. My brother wanted to have homework to, so he told everyone that when he became a girl he was going to do his homework.

Marie

i used to believe that we were suppose to be born as adults and instead of growing older, we are suppose to grow younger. so when the time comes for us to depart from the world, we are to die young instead of dying old... weird right... the thoughts that i had as a child...

nenny

whenever grown-ups would show me pictures of themselves as children or talk about when they were younger i would not and agree, but secretly i believed that they were just making it up. i thought that there was no way they could have ever been children, and that there was no way i would ever "grow up" and become an adult.

Jess

I used to believe that people didn't grow old, I mean, I really thought that my grandmother just born with that age, and I was terrified when I discovered that my mom would be really old one day.

Mônica

I thought that adults have been adults for their whole lives, kids have always been kids, and old people were always old. A while after that I realized that wasn't true. So then I told my friend that we all grow up, and he acted like I was really stupid.

Anon

I assumed that some people were born old, and I happened to be born young and would stay pretty much the same forever.

Anon

I used to believe that adults weren't allowed to play with toys. Then my best friend's dad, who's a kid at heart, showed us his cubicle that was filled with toys. :)

Anon

When I was young I believed that previous generations saw in black and white until color TV and movies came along.

Worsie

I used to think that growing up happened all at once and at random. Like one day I'd wake up and suddenly be seven feet tall and considered an adult.

Anon

I used to believe that adults were born adults, while children would have remained children forever

Anon

I used to believe that all people werer born the size that they were. so i thought i would never grow any bigger and that my dad was born as full grown person.

ERB

When I was little, most of the grownups in my grandparents' generation were immigrants. I believed that when you get old, you acquire an accent. After all: all the old people had accents, and none of the young ones did.

Anon

When I was younger I used to hear over and over again how a lady should act. One day when I was about 5 my mother asked me "don't you want to be a lady when you grow up?"

I responded quite frankly: "I don't want to be a lady, I want to be a woman!"

Anon

When my sister was about four, she saw a small elderly lady about the same height as herself. She thought that after a while, old people would continue to shrink and then change into little kids. So, she asked my mom when my great-grandmother would become her age!

k and c

Before I understood death, I believed that people would grow up and become really old, and then when they reached a certain age they would "grow down" until they became babies again, and then the cycle would start all over again. It never occurred to me to ask whether I had once been an old person already.

Anon

I used to believe that people were either born as children or adults. I was mad that I was born a child, because adults got to do much cooler things.

Jen