I believed that numbers eventually just ended. That they stopped somewhere after 1000.
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 believed that kissing a toad would give you warts, but it never stopped me from a dare.— Kirstin
- Numbers went up to 100 then restarted at zero.Anon
- The highest of all numbers was "a finnety."— Becky
- i used to belive that 1 to 10 were the only numbers and all others were made up.....— Eric
- I used to believe there was a limit on the numbers you could count — Carmen