getting older

I used to believe that grownup just knew what was happening in life. I mean to say that I thought all grownups knew how things should be and that somehow they must have always know since the time they became adults. Perhaps there was a secret meeting that they had when they went out to dinner and we stayed home with the babysitter. Terribly disappointing to find out that they were making it up as they went along and no one is actually in charge. Scary, really.

Anon

I used to believe that all old people eventually become demented when they get old enough. This was before people had identified Alzheimer's disease, so people couldn't easily explain why some old people became more and more incapacitated mentally. Anyway, I ued to wonder when my grandparents would start becoming forgetful and losing their minds...

Henry Minsky

when i was little,i thought that when turned 19 you then became 1 again.Like this:1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 1 2.....

someone

When I was little, I used to believe that boys would turn into women, and girls would turn into men. I guess I believed it because every girl I knew was flat-chested, including myself. I never said anything because I truly believe it was true.

Now I obviously know that doesn't happen, but it is kind of funny looking back...

Robyn

When i was little, i used to believe in old peple were crazy because their brain as old too and they lost their mind so i scared about old people.
When i was little my great-grandmother lived in a pension house and every week with my father and my grandmother we went to vistit her . The day of her birthday we brought a big cake so i put it in the kitchen of the pension house, and during the party a grandfather ate completely my great-grandmother cake, so she diddn't have a cake for her birthday and i was very scared of this grandfather because i thought he would eat me too

Anon

When i was in 4th grade. My mother told me that babies came from the heaven and god made them just the way they look now. Well i truly thought this so i told one of my friends at school that we were going to be this small for ever i later found out that we still grow after you come out of your moterd stomach

William Greathouse

I used to believe that when you "became" a grown-up (a huge, dramatic event in which you went to bed as a kid, and then magically, when you woke up, you'd turn into an adult, complete with Disney-esque fairy dust, lol), you'd automatically know everything, and be perfect. So, if my parents got angry with me when I was a kid, it was just because they were impatient that I had yet to undergo the "amazing transformation" that they had, and become perfect like them. Over time, however, I figured out the truth, by watching my parents screw up from time to time, like the time my mom knocked the sugar bowl on the floor and yelled "Damn it!!!" thus teaching me my first psuedo-swear word at the age of three. Or the time my dad built me an intricately designed tree house when I was four, complete with stairs, a porch, and three windows, that he said required trigonometry to build.....but he stupidly measured the door EXACTLY to my four-year-old height, not taking into consideration the fact that I would GROW. Or the time my dad decided to make a "golf course" in the backyard, so me and my brother could practice with our Fisher-Price golf clubs, and he used soup cans as the golf holes, which worked great until the first time it rained, and they filled up with rain and leaves and rust......or the time my dad was teaching my brother to ride a bike, but he neglected to teach him how to stop, until he rode his bike into the garage door and cut his lip and had to get stitches and subsist on Carnation Instant Breakfast for a few days. I have more stories, but I can't really think of any more off the top of my head right now, lol.

Emily

When I was a little girl, I believed I would go to a far away country and marry a prince. And I actually did almost just that!! :)

Anon

When I asked my grandad what growing old meant, he replied it was like becoming an antique ... your chest sank into your drawers!

Pete C.

I use to think that teenagers were adults and already had adult lives.

emily

When i was 4 my older brother who was 9 told me dat wen i became a tennager i would become a completly different person and no-one would recognise me and i would have to find a new family. i got so upset that he confessed later that night that it was a lie!!!

Russell

My mother's mother has always been a very annoying person. She talks too loud, never leaves the house, and makes up stories to make her life sound like a big burden. On the other hand, both my grandfathers (dad's mom is dead)are really cool guys. So I always thought I'd grow up to be an old man because old women are like my grandma. I still kinna believe this. I know it's not true, but I still say stuff like "when I'm an old man" or whatever.

Robin

I used to believe that I would grow up to be Belle from Beauty and the Beast.

katherineL

I used to belive Love was just being with someone and stuff. Now, that i have it, it's way more than that.

Mason

I use to think that babys wer girls and wen thay got older thay wer boys.

zzo38computer

I used to believe that people never grow up, that children remain children forever and mummies remain mummies forever without having been children before themselves...

sguen

when i wuz a lil gurl my mom told me if i worked hard i could b anything i wanted to b
so i thought ide become a fish !!!!i neverknew how ide achieve that but i really fantasized bout it!!!!!

lilangel

I used to believe when I was a kid, that when you turned 18, no one would be able to tell you what to do, ever-again-in-life! I couldn't WAIT to turn 18.

I'm now in my forties and I'm still being told what to do, how I should live, what I should think....... I had more fun as a kid :(

valiree44

I used to beleve that adults cood see yor skin red or blu depending on yor gender.

zzo38computer

I used to believe that the adult age begins at age 20, after I learned the law at age 14.

Anon