I used to believe…
number went ... nineteen, ten-teen, eleven-teen, twelve-teen.
twelve-teen was the largest number possible.
A childhood belief about counting
others believed things like this
- in kindergarden i beleived that to be a teenager your name had to end with teen— eric
- I used to believe that twenty was the largest number in the universe.— Bernardo Fernandez
- when i was little i believed that your social security number was the number you were born on the earth — christine
- when I was little my uncle told me he was part bear. I believed people could be part bear until I was twelve. — Audrey
- I used to believe there was a number "eleventeen". I could never quite work out where it went, though.— Matthew
- I used to think boys went "number two" with their pee pees. Anon