getting older

I used to believe that when you reached a certain age, you switched genders. My mom was very confused when I was crying about how I liked being a girl and wanted to stay that way.

Anon

When I was four whenever people asked me what i wanted to be when I grew up I said a meat eater! One year later our family became vegetarians!

Katherine

I uses to believe that when you turned 20 you suddenly became boring and couldn't do anything silly any more. I finally discovered otherwise when my cousin Chris told me he was 24 and he had played lego, climbed up trees and sucked on my other cousins dummy as a joke. So I then decided that he was still a kid and some people just remained babies forever.... That really scared me as I still wet the bed.

I'm still a kid and I'm 19. It's all in the mind

I used to believe that, once boys reached the age of eleven, they would begin turning into monkeys. Their brains would detiorate, and they would grow hair in strange places. They'd perform monkey-like actions.

Hey, I wasn't too far from the truth. :)

Kelsey

I used to believe that when you turned 18 you were a grown up.

Nikki

My brother, when he was little, couldnt be convinced that he hadnt spent as much time on this planet as the rest of us. He was sure that since he had only been here, say 7 years, that everyone else in the family had only been here 7 years. He couldnt grasp the fact that I was 6 years older than him

Misha

when i was like 3 i thought that when people reached a certain age they would turn the opposite sex. i dunno why.

zack

My brother who is seven years younger than I believed that one day he would be older than I. It was a fun rib while it lasted.

S1nF0ny

When I was young I had a babysitter who took hormone pills but she said "homeown" (say it in your head), so I thought that when you owned a house you had to take pills.

I also believed that when playing in the ocean and the waves went over you they were actually going through you.

Olivia

I used to believe that when you turned 50, you would turn into the opposite gender.

Rebekah

When I was little I used to believe that when I learned or experienced new things, my old memories would be pushed out of my mind. Because of my concern, I was afraid to learn new things!

Shayna B

I saw one of my baby videos from long ago. I was two years old at the time. My mom asked me how old I was, which I replied "two years old". Then she asked how old daddy was. I said "four years old"! At the time, I must have thought that my dad was not much older than me, because I didn't know how old people could possibly be. Also for a 2-year-old, four seems awfully old!

Anon

I used to believe that life would be like "Happy Days" when I would be a teenager.

Anon

I belived I would someday live in a treetop.

Dreamy

I used to think that everyone stopped being young and became middle aged at the age of 30. Now I’m 31 and don’t look or feel any different from when I was in my 20s!

Alan, Sheffield

when I was young I had older cousins than usded to pick on me all the time. When i was five till 7 I had ketp telling myself I wolud be older than them some day and thatI would give them a tast of their own medcine. But evey timr i turned a year older they did too so i went and told my mom a bout this and she said to me that would never happen and and explined and after she had a little laughf . I was soo dissapointed .

Paige

I used to believe that Mothercare sold babies,that Jaws might bight my bum whist I sat on the toilet,that the lady on talking clock heard me when I called her "wobbly bottom" because my dad told me so, and between the ages five to ten you had your birhday twice...so you had a little tenth birthday then a big tenth birthday when you were much older, like shoe sizes... you were a size ten childrens or size ten adults.

Anon

When I was little, I always pictured teenagers as girls. I never thought of boys to be "teenagers" when they reached the teen age. I don't know why; I guess its because I never knew any teenage boys, only girls.

anonymous

I used to believe that you changed your name once you became a grown-up because no one I knew had the same name as adults I knew.

Brian

I used to believe that you graduate high school at age 20.

Anon