When I was about five or six I remember sitting in the school dinner hall boasting to my friends that I could count all the way to a thousand. Demonstrating I counted 1, 2, 3, ..., 99, 100, 101,... 108, 109, 1000. Incidentally one of the boys to whom I was boasting managed to count to 3000 without cheating when he was sixteen, one boring afternoon.
A childhood belief about counting
others believed things like this
- I thought to count to one thousand you did 1-100, then 100-199, then came 1,000.— Anon!
- I thought that Count Dracula was the count from Sesame StreetAnon
- I used to believe that it would take forever to count to 100— Jeff
- when i was in kindergarten i used to think that 100 was the highest someone could count!— Jessica
- I used to believe there was a limit on the numbers you could count — Carmen
- My neighbors used to believe you could never count to 100 in a day, it would atleast take a week.
— raceystacyUS