My sister was always playing computer battleships when I was little. I'd learned my numbers and my letters, and I was looking at the screen one day. I soon came to believe that every number had to be partnered with a letter, otherwise it would just be rejected.
A childhood belief about counting
others believed things like this
- When I was a child, I believed that thunder was God playing on the computer.
— Gabriela - I used to believe that numbers had gender, that the odd numbers were boys and even numbers were girls. — Evelyn
- After watching Dr Who I thought that cow-pats were rejected Dalek brains.— Middbo
- I used to believe that after the number "ten" came the numbers "tendy-one, tendy-two..." etc.Anon
- I always thought you could break through the tv screen and walk into whatever was on the screen at the time.— Linda
- when i was little i believed that your social security number was the number you were born on the earth — christine