I thought I was the only weirdo in existence who thought numbers had gender and personality but I see I wasn't the only one! Even more bizarre though, is that I felt they had "ages" also--1 & 2 were older, 3 & 4 were younger, 5 & 6 older, etc.
A childhood belief about counting
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that numbers had gender, that the odd numbers were boys and even numbers were girls. — Evelyn
- a friend of my little sister's had 4 older brothers, so she thought that when you got older you grew a penis!Anon
- I thought that Dad's were always older then Mom's, come to find out my mom is a few months older than my dad.— Nicole
- I thought my grandad would get older, so I asked him 'What do you want to be when you're older?'.— Afterlife Dreamin'
- I used to believe that the numbers athletes wore on their uniforms were their ages.— Sara
- when i was really young, i couldn't figure out why i can't get older than my older sister.— angela