I used to believe that numbers only lasted to 1000. I also used to believe that after 100 or 1000, it would be 100, 200, 300, 400 etc. LOL!!!
A childhood belief about counting
others believed things like this
- I believed that numbers eventually just ended. That they stopped somewhere after 1000.— Jamis
- I used to believe that numbers had gender, that the odd numbers were boys and even numbers were girls. — Evelyn
- I used to believe that eg 1+1=11 and 2+2=22.
Luckily that only lasted until age 2 1/2.— Madi - I used to think all wars lasted only 4 years, like college or something. Anon
- I thought that 1983 went on for 3 years - had to ask my sister who decided how long a year lasted.— Sally
- Numbers went up to 100 then restarted at zero.Anon