As a child (7-9 years old), I became obsessed with evenness. Every move I did, every step I took, every shot I took in a video game, I always had to make sure I did it an even number of times. It took me, get this, TWO YEARS to break the habit. And even then it wasn't completely broken. When I was doing this, it ruled my actions so much that I used most of my thinking power just to make sure I'm taking an even number of steps. Sometimes (I'm 13 now) in video games, I still find myself making sure that I fire an even number of shots. I was a sad child. Very, very sad.
I still have absolutely no idea how I got it in my head that everything I did had to be even.
A childhood belief about i'm different
others believed things like this
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- when i was little i believed that your social security number was the number you were born on the earth — christine
- I used to believe that when i died it was like a super mario game... I had a certain number of lives.— David...waffles
- When I was a child I used to believe that there were two hands inside the TV making the cartoons move.Anon
- 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