Before I went to Kindergarten and was learning to count, I always left out the number 8: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10. And my mum and dad would always say (so they would tell me, as I don't remember this): "What ever happened to poor old 8?" And I apparently would have no idea. And strange enough, 8 is my favorite number today!
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 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 believe that twenty was the largest number in the universe.— Bernardo Fernandez
- I used to think that any number with a decimal point in it was HUGE.— sm