It seems I'm not the only person to have assigned genders to the numbers. I took it a step further though, and imagined them as members in a family. For me, 1 is male, 2 is female, but they are also the little brother and sister, and don't get along. 4 is male and the "cool-guy" teenager who doesn't say much. 5 and 6 are husband and wife, with 6 wearing the pants in the family because she is bigger. 8 and 9 are the old aunts who never got married so they live together and have a bunch of cats (Like Patty and Selma from "The Simpsons"). 10 is the grandpa (Six's dad) who tries to keep everyone under control but mostly just shakes is head and mumbles alot. After ten, we get talking about the extended family... Don't get me started.
A childhood belief about counting
others believed things like this
- My sister and I thought cats and dogs were the same animal, the dogs were male and the cats were female.— Paul
- i used to think that every family had a brother and sister and they married eachother when they got olderAnon
- I used to think that to desex an animal meant to turn it from a male to a female or female to male.— Phil
- I used to believe all cats were female and all dogs were male.— Sabby
- I used to think that all cats were female and all dogs were male. — Annalisa
- i used to believe that all cats were female and dogs were male!Anon