When my cousin was 5 or 6, he would always ask me questions like "is 10 bigger than 2?" etc. One day he asked me "Is the whole world bigger than 700?" I said that it was, and he thought for a second, shook his head and said "It's too big."
A childhood belief about counting
others believed things like this
- When I was small, my brother would bug me and say that if my hand was bigger than my head, I had a tumor.Anon
- When my mom would say that my eyes were bigger than my stomach I thought she meant it literally.— Amanda
- I thought that big people are necessarily smarter because there brains would be bigger— Quatsch
- That 1/4 was bigger than 1/2Anon
- I used to believe that everybody who was bigger or taller than I was always older than me.— Stano Finji
- I used to believe that the bigger the coin was, the more it was worth.— Benjamin