When I was really little, about four or five, I used to think that once you got to 100, the next hundred was only ten away. Like, "100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 200" and so on. Finally I counted this way in front of my parents, who made sure to correct my counting skills.
A childhood belief about counting
others believed things like this
- I used to believe the way they counted up votes was by counting the signs people used to put on their yards— Jaci Marshall
- That numbers went 1-99 the A hundred, a hundred and one til a hundred and ninety nine. Then ONE hundred...— Foolhardy
- When I was 10 years old, I used to believe that the accountants always counted money all the time.— Claudia P. R.G.
- I used to believe that copying definitions out of a book counted as plagiarism!Anon
- I used to believe that ATM'S had little people inside them counting moneyAnon
- When I was little I thought you could get arrested if you accidentally skipped a number while counting.— Hailey