when i was little i somehow got the idea 20 was the highest number. i made my mom count to twenty for my dad and then proclaimed "and that that's the last number!" i didn't understand why my parents laughed
A childhood belief about counting

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that twenty was the largest number in the universe.— Bernardo Fernandez
- when i was little i believed that your social security number was the number you were born on the earth — christine
- 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 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 think that any number with a decimal point in it was HUGE.— sm