When I was four, I used to believe that I could only count to 10. Then my mom gave me 13 balls and asked me to tell her what the number was. I saw that they were a lot, so I suspected 10 because it was the highest. So I said 10, but it was wrong, and I didn't understand. I counted them. I stopped at 10. "Mum! There are 10 balls but 3 extra!" Mom said, "no, there are no extras, this number is called 13." then she taught me to count up to 20. At six, I also thought that 20 was the highest number, but I heard people saying things like 23 (which I now understood, from being taught adding, was 20 plus 3) and remembered what my Mom told me. So I thought, "hey, there's such thing as 20 + 3!" it got kind of confusing from there.
A childhood belief about counting
others believed things like this
- when i was in kindergarten i used to think that 100 was the highest someone could count!— Jessica
- when i was little i believed that your social security number was the number you were born on the earth — christine
- I thought that Count Dracula was the count from Sesame StreetAnon
- i always thought it was Grape Balls of Fire instead of Great Balls of Fire— Courtney
- When I was little I thought you could get arrested if you accidentally skipped a number while counting.— Hailey
- I thought everyone only had a set number of breaths before they died.
I breathed slowly for a long time.Anon