After I heard the joke "Why was 6 mad at 7? Beause 7 8 9 (seven ate nine)" I thought 7 was the meanest number ever and 9 became my favorite number because I felt bad for it.
A childhood belief about counting

others believed things like this
- when i was little i believed that your social security number was the number you were born on the earth — christine
- When I was little I thought you could get arrested if you accidentally skipped a number while counting.— Hailey
- I thought everyone only had a set number of breaths before they died.
I breathed slowly for a long time.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
- I used to believe that twenty was the largest number in the universe.— Bernardo Fernandez