I thought 1000 was the highest number invented.
A childhood belief about counting

others believed things like this
- I believed that numbers eventually just ended. That they stopped somewhere after 1000.— Jamis
- The highest of all numbers was "a finnety."— Becky
- when i was in kindergarten i used to think that 100 was the highest someone could count!— Jessica
- when i was little i believed that your social security number was the number you were born on the earth — christine
- I thought Napoleon invented linoleum.— Steve Murphy
- I thought that some animals had just been "invented" recently (like within the last 50 years or so)— Makron