I used to believe that all the numbers up to 20 had different personalities, like 5 had 4 children (1,2,3,4) and she was married to six who was always getting attacked by 7. This is how I remembered my math problems.
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 thought split personalities were like having dreams. the dreams i had were all my personalities!— Odd Dreamer
- I thought that Ted Bundy was a character on "Married With Children."— Patrick
- I used to believe that having children could only happen after a wedding with the person you are married to.Anon
- I used to believe that 7 times 12 was equal to 83 or 84, depending on the math problem.— Eric Swensen
- i used to believe nuns were married to jesus and priests were married to mary.— sunshine