I always thought that the numbr 100 was the biggest number and that it was the last one. So, when I knew all my numbers up to 100, and then was informed that I was sadly mistaken, I thought I will never memorize all those numbers. It would take years.
A childhood belief about counting
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that numbers had gender, that the odd numbers were boys and even numbers were girls. — Evelyn
- I used to believe that after the number "ten" came the numbers "tendy-one, tendy-two..." etc.Anon
- I used to be terrified of the numbers 18 and 19. I think I thought that when you turned 18 or 19, you die.— Emmy
- This may sound absurd but I thought the numbers next to the Bible versus said what time the person said it at!— Biomeka
- I thought that serial killers had serial numbers like products did so the cops could identify them easier. — C
- Numbers went up to 100 then restarted at zero.Anon