My sister is about five years older than me and I would watch my dad help her with her algebra homework. I didn't understand the concept of variables so I believed that each letter of the alphabet had an assigned number, which seemed way too complex for my naive brain.
A childhood belief about classes

others believed things like this
- In preschool, I thought that the letter N came twice in the alphabet- W X Y N ZAnon
- i really thought that "key" was a secret letter to the alphabet that only i knew.— amber
- that the twefth letter of the alphabet was "elemeno" like: a b c d e f g h i j k elemeno p— feivel
- when i was little i believed that your social security number was the number you were born on the earth — christine
- My oldest sister is 15 years my senior. I used to think that she was older than my mom.— Callie
- For many years I didn't understand why everyone was talking about the 'youth in Asia' (euthanasia).Anon