When I was 4 I asked my mom what number came after 100. She said 10. Until 2nd grade, I would go "97, 98, 99, 100, 10, 11, 12.."
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 a "mean girl" in early grade school asked me if I was a virgin I answered "no I am catholic."— Hilary
- A[n] nth grade teacher only had to finish the nth grade when he or she was in school.— MD Caruso
- 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