getting older

My little cousin (a girl) used to believe she was a boy at one time before she was a girl and she told me "When I was a boy, I played baseball."

Daryl Lee

When I was 10, I used to believe that 'blind date' was about a person who dates a man or woman who's eyes were blind.

Anon

My little brother came home from his pre-school/day care one day and said to my mother and I...."I bet you can't wait to be little like me so you can go to Goodies too!" - ha, cute kid

kaila

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 brother told me that I would turn into a boy when I got older. It made me cry.

Sarah

I used to believe that when you got to certain age you had all your teeth removed, this was because both my parents have false teeth. (I now attend the dentist regularly!)

Anon

My mom had a mole on the back of her leg. I used to think that when I became a woman, I would have one too. I thought it was a part of puberty, like developing breasts.

Anon

i use to think that you would never stop growing and you'd get too big for your house. my parents didn't get it when i kept asking like "what happens when you get too big for your house?"

also once my neighbor got extensions and told me they had glued hairs one by one onto her real hair and i honestly believed this was a common process for many years...

Q

I use to think that if you were pretty from the grades 1-5th grade then when u get to middle school you would become real ugly..

till this day.. im still unsure

I used to believe that when you became a "grown-up", you would automatically know how to do grown-up things, like drive a car, pay bills or balance a checkbook. *sigh* If only...

MaeghanJade

My brothers friend still thinks he will be a kangaroo when he grows up and he's 9!!!!!

Jane Rom

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 people grew backwards, too. My older sister complimented me on a dress, for instance, and I told her I'd put it away for her for "when she was my age".
Maybe I had some early knowledge of reincarnation... or perhaps I just watched too much "Mork & Mindy".

petronella

When I was 3 years old, I thought that you could switch genders as you grew up. People with dominant personalities would become male adults while people with passive personalities would become female adults.

GothicSoccermom

i used to believe that some day i'll catch up with my brother and never have to be the younger one again!!!!

rhea

I used to believe that grown-ups, especially my parents, never cried. Really messed me up when it happened for the first time.

Lindsay

I could never remember how old my parents were, but when I was in 5th grade I figured out that my dad was 3 years older than my mom, and 30 years older than me, so it would be like me dating a 2nd grader, which I thought was gross. To this day, to figure out my parents ages, I add 30 years to me for my dad, and then think 5th grade/2nd grade to figure out my mom.

Lindsay

When i was little i used to think that Adults just kept on growing and thats how giants were made. I always wondered Where the lived and if the ever grew their heads right through there house roof. Then i cam up that they lived in mansions. I believed till i was about 10 when my mom told me she had stopped growing.

Christine Valente