I used to believe that words and phrases could be "good" or "bad". The determining factor was the number of characters comprising the word or words in question. If a word or phrase contained an even number of characters then it was "good", and if it contained an odd number of characters it was "bad." I constantly counted the letters in people's names and the names of stores, cars, and anything else that I saw. Sometimes I would find myself during conversation spelling out some of the words used and counting the letters in my head. Now at 26, I still have an awful habit of counting letters.
A childhood belief about counting
others believed things like this
- When I was little I thought you could get arrested if you accidentally skipped a number while counting.— Hailey
- From the first six letters of this word, I thought that “megalomania” had something to do with megalodons.— Enrico
- I used to believe the way they counted up votes was by counting the signs people used to put on their yards— Jaci Marshall
- I used to wander what my name would be in other languages. I thought that names worked the same way as words. — Simon
- when i was little i believed that your social security number was the number you were born on the earth — christine
- I thought the word economical was actually two words: eek and omical.
— Nancy M.