When I was about three years old, my dad taught me how to count on my fingers in binary (up is 1, down is 0). For a long time I believed that if I tried hard enough I could figure out how to do it in base ten, or at least base three, but later I realized that it was impossible.
A childhood belief about counting
others believed things like this
- I thought that Count Dracula was the count from Sesame StreetAnon
- Whenever my fingers wrinkled from staying in the pool too long, I thought I was aging faster.— The Mortal Elf
- In first grade I believed that I was from Mexico because I could count to ten in Spanish.— Lara Roy
- when i was a kid i believed i could make things happen just by snapping my fingers like in mary poppins!!Anon
- For a very long time I believed that there were little men underground that changed the traffic lights!— Melissa
- I believed for a long time that brown cows gave chocolate milk!— Evil Mom