At one time, I believed I was capable of creating a new form of number manipulation which would stand alongside addition, subtraction, and so forth.
A childhood belief about counting

others believed things like this
- when i was little i believed that your social security number was the number you were born on the earth — christine
- When I was younger, I would believe that vacuum cleaners were capable of sucking up humans.Anon
- I used to think that adam and the ants' stand and deliver was 'stand in your liver'.....— wook
- When I was a kid I believed that the number 11 was pronounced "onety-one"— Alicia
- I thought everyone only had a set number of breaths before they died.
I breathed slowly for a long time.Anon - i could swear eleventeen was a number for the longest time -- it still sounds pretty convincing.— erin