getting older

When I was a child I used to believe that the things in my room became smaller but it was me who was growing

Anon

I used to think that someone's birthday was when they could go back to being a baby for the day.

Anon

I used to think that all (or most) old people had sad childhood stories to tell, because of the wartime in their younger generation.

Anon

I used to believe that you grew up and then once you got to be a old fart you then started to grow young again. I thought that my grandmother and I would be the same age as she began to grow young again!

susan

When I grew up, I was going to be a mom with no kids.

Anon

Remember the Toys R Us Song and Peter Pan? When I was 6 they inspired me to never want to grow up. I remember believing I could will myself to stay 6 forever. I told all my family I was always going to be 6 so that I could play all the time and not have to grow up and become boring (have a job, not watch cartoons, that sort of thing).

Amy

My mother always said I should write a book called, "I Useda Think.." Finally There's a place out there for all the rediculous things "I Useda think" as a child. One of them goes like this..

I Useda Think that If you were born as one sex, half-way through your life you turned into the other sex.

Valerie

I used to believe that little boys grew up to be girls and little girls grew up to be boys.

Darin

I honestly believed when I was a kid that some day, at some age (I wasn't sure what age) when I got older everyone would come to me and say, "The way you have been experiencing everything is not the way it really is. Everything is actually better. You just had to experience the bad stuff so you could appreciate the way it 'really is'." Funny, I just grew up and realized everything is just the way it is. You just have to deal with.
Sometimes it is good, sometimes it is bad. Deal with it!

Anon

when we were very (four or five-ish) me and my sister would occasionaly be taken to see our great grandmother, between us me and my sister privatly decided that she must be at least 100 years old, because she was so wrinkly and decrepid.

when she died a while after that i decided that everyone must get to live exactly 100 years before they popped there clogs.

In retrospect this seems a lot fairer than only getting 60-70 years if your lucky

Raver Dave

When i was little my friends actually got me to belive that when you would grow up u would change so that if you were a girl when u grew up u would become a boy, and the same if you were a boy but just opposite. it took me 6 years to figure it out that it was untrue

Sex change

When i was smaller, and i was beginning to learn about puberty, i read something about how your voice cracks during puberty. I then began to think it was like a test- if you were manly enough, then your voice would stop cracking eventually and your voice would become brawny and mature. If you werent manly enough, you would awarded with a high pitched voice for the rest of your life.

Stevensonbak

I used to believe that I would catch up to my older sister in age.

Abby

Only old men can drive BMW's

Anon

When I was little (4 or 5 years old) I used to believe that my mom would send me to an izolated island with dinosaurs and somebody older would replace me because i didn't believe that i was gonna grow up. I remember looking at a chair and asking myself "why doesn't the chair gain in hight also?" :))

Kytzackh

when i was a kid. i believed that all religions were of the same god, 1 god. i also believed that death was something to rejoice, for it means we get to go to heaven. i also believed that i knew everything about life/ whilst having no opinion of anyone or anything. i also believed that children younger than me, could see ghosts, and at times, so could i. there comes point when each child must join the h,race. and forever be devoid of the consciousness we once had. when i was a child i believed the world revolved around myself, when i was a child i could see. NB- i have a photographic memory :). enjoy the life!!

Zayd

I used to believe I was really special. Like, I used to think that I could reach anything that was on my mind. Going to Harvard? No problem, I could do that easily. Now, I'm 20 and I'm hit with the fact that it's not as simple. Maybe I am NOT special... It's quite depressing how a boy with huge dreams and ambition turned out to become the person of today. I still pray and manifest for my dreams. But 8 yr old me had hoped a much, much more successful youth...

Boy

I used to think that college could be referred to as retirement school since kids over 16 leave school in the same way that older people leave work.

Anon

that as I grew up, my parents would "grown down," then I would be the Mom and Mom would be my child.

Anon

My parents both wear eyeglasses. None of my wee pals did. So I thought all grownups (and only grownups) wear them. This illusion must have faded well before I got glasses at age 10.

Anton Sherwood