When I was about 5 or 6 years old, I thought, I could count up to 1 million. I counted correctly to 100, but then 101, 102, 103,.....108, 109, 1000, 1001, 1002, 1003, ....1008, 1009, 1 000 000.
I actually thought, this was the right way.
I was very proud on this ability and always wondered, why I didn't get very much respect for this by grown-ups.
A childhood belief about counting
others believed things like this
- I thought that Count Dracula was the count from Sesame StreetAnon
- When I was 10 years old, I used to believe that the accountants always counted money all the time.— Claudia P. R.G.
- I thought grown ups were born grown ups.— mea
- I thought to count to one thousand you did 1-100, then 100-199, then came 1,000.— Anon!
- When I was little i thought that seconds were so fast that you couldn't count them.— Baby
- I believed that numbers eventually just ended. That they stopped somewhere after 1000.— Jamis