getting older

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

I used to believe that people chose to be old people, adults, kids or babies. I thought you stayed the way you were forever.

Anon

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

zzo38computer

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

zzo38computer

When my friend was about 4, her cousin told her that when you graduated from high school, you had to go live in an igloo. My friend started to cry and asked her grandparents if it was true but they laughed at her.

Goonie

I knew that my mother and father were little once, but I believed that grew to the age of adults in a couple of days. I reasoned that grandparents grew even faster.

jack diddly squat

I used to beleive that when you grew up to be an adult, you would be able to see your own eyeballs without the use of a mirror

Leann Hayley

This is really embarrassingly stupid, but when I was young (really old enough to know better though!) I noticed that many older women had breasts which had begun to... sag. Since I knew some animals had their teats closer to the belly than the chest (like cows) I seriously concluded I had found one more proof of evolution, i.e. that past generations were physically more akin to animals in this one area. I wonder why-- I wasn't usually nearly so dumb!

Walter

I used to think that on your birthday you'd suddenly grow taller. I couldn't grasp that you grew gradually.....

Patience is a virtue

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

I used to believe that the morning I woke up for college we'd have to buy me all new clothes because then I would be an adult and wouldn't be able to fit into child's clothes anymore.

Kiana

When I used to watch my grandmother read, she looked down at the book so that it looked like her eyes were closed. After seeing my mother do this too, I figured that when you got older, you were able to read books with your eyes closed!

Raven

When I was younger I thought that all the adults where wearing masks and only when I'm not there they would take off their masks and show their horrible monster faces.

Kitty

When i was a little girl i was very tall for my age and i used to be very proud of it and always stod up straight then a another little girl said it was better to be small and i didn't question this and deceided i had to be small so everyday afetr school i thought that i should try and curl myself into a ball so i could be small because i thought all my standing up straight had made me tall so for half an hour i made my self into a little ball and then i would empty out a little cupboard and see if I could fit in if I could i would say that my work will be done needless to say i never did.

Roxanne

I once asked my mum when she was a little boy, and I wondered when it was my turn too.

Confused

I used to believe that the only people that went to college were Jamaicans

Lauren

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

I used to think i was old first and over time you become a kid.

Anon