my brother can count to a hundred.
if you ask him, he will. and when he reaches 99, he stops for a moment and says, "at 100 you die"
clearly he's associating counting with age.
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- That numbers went 1-99 the A hundred, a hundred and one til a hundred and ninety nine. Then ONE hundred...— Foolhardy
- I thought that Count Dracula was the count from Sesame StreetAnon
- when i was a little kid. i used to think that when u hold ur breath ur heart stops.. LOL :P — Annonymus
- I used to think that when the power goes out, the water also stops working.Anon
- Apparently from seeing EKG's on TV, my daughter believes people die when their heart stops "beeping."— Jager
- I used to believe that ATM'S had little people inside them counting moneyAnon