getting older

There is 18 months between my sister and I. I am the youngest. I used to believe that I would catch her up in age, as I was 4 she was 6, then I would turn 5 in the middle of the year, and think I was getting older than her.

Kelly

When I was a little kid, I was thoroughly convinced that grown-ups had to face an obligatory odeal. Adult men had to join compulsory military service, and adult women had to give birth.

Stig, Norway

I used to believe that when you were 12, you automatically changed sex

Karen

as a little girl of about 6 years old, i used to think that when i grew up i would change into a boy. the turn around age was about 18--i figured that god would want us to have a taste of both sides of the coin. the change hasn't happened yet (i am 25)--maybe i'm just a slow developer?

janita

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

When I was a kid I was told so much crap by adults around me that I thought all adults must be crazy. The stories sounded just crazy to me and I thought that as I got older I'd get just like them. Every time I'd do or say something wrong my sisters would call me crazy and I though it was a sign that I was growing up and becoming an adult because the word adult sounds so much like "A DOLT"

Franklin

i used to believe that when I grew up and was perfect (which is the line my grandmother kept telling me ..) that I would be able to take my teeth out just like her.

Anon

I thought you were put on earth as a either a kid or grown-up.

megan

as a kid i believed that as soon as you became a teenager you had to break into houses and steal stuff, and spend the rest of your time hanging out in front of the local 'milk bar'. This was mostly thanks to my mum blaming all bad things on teenagers and the fact that we lived in a pretty rough area full of bored teens. I soooo did not want to be a teenager!

donttrustanyoneover30

I thought Alzheimer's was Old Timers for the longest time. I've asked a bunch of people and it seems i was alone in this. Hey looking back i think i was clever, wrong but clever.

Shantia

I used to believe that every time my teacher threw a birthday party for kids with summer birthdays, we were already another year older. When I was in kindergarten (6 yrs old), and it got to be spring of my kindergarten year, my teacher threw the summer birthday kids a birthday party (I was one of the summer birthday people) before school ended for the summer. I went home and told my mom I was 7 years old...She said, "No, you're not, you have to wait until August." and I said, "How long until August?" and she said, "Not for a long time." and I said, "Well, I want it to be August NOW!" and then she went on to tell me it just wouldn't work out that way... The same thing happened when I skipped from kindergarten to 2nd grade (I was in 1st grade after kindergarten, but for only one month, then they moved me to 2nd grade). My 2nd grade teacher threw a birthday party for everybody in my class that had summer birthdays (a lot of us!), so I went home again and told my mom I was 8 years old. I was soooo bummed!!

PZelda