When I was in Kindergarten, I was wholly and completely convinced that thirty was the highest number. NO ONE got in the way of that no matter what they said, no matter how smart I believed they were. Thirty was the highest number in the world, a big intimidating, staggering number. I used to be very, very mad at my teachers who told me otherwise. I screamed at one of them at the top of my lungs (possibly more, I only remember one in particular). My friends back then even knew. They would say "well there's forty and fifty and sixty ...", and, let's make a long story short - they weren't my friends much longer.
A childhood belief about counting
others believed things like this
- when i was little i believed that your social security number was the number you were born on the earth — christine
- when i was in kindergarten i used to think that 100 was the highest someone could count!— Jessica
- i used to belive that 100 was the biggest number in the world "i got at least a hundred marbles."— dan harris
- I thought everyone only had a set number of breaths before they died.
I breathed slowly for a long time.Anon - When I was a kid I believed that the number 11 was pronounced "onety-one"— Alicia
- I used to believe that boys couldn't be teachers because they weren't smart enough. — Azz