When I was 4 years old my brother told me that when you count backwards, you don't count the number 4. I think I believed him.
A childhood belief about counting

others believed things like this
- I thought that Count Dracula was the count from Sesame StreetAnon
- In first grade I believed that I was from Mexico because I could count to ten in Spanish.— Lara Roy
- 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 thought to count to one thousand you did 1-100, then 100-199, then came 1,000.— Anon!
- I used to believe there was a limit on the numbers you could count — Carmen