i used to think that my adopted mom, who even at the time was quite old, was actually 10 years old. i thought this because i could only count up to ten at the time, so i thought 10 must be pretty old. i also thought that i would become a grown up when i became 10.
A childhood belief about counting
others believed things like this
- I thought that Count Dracula was the count from Sesame StreetAnon
- I thought grown ups were born grown ups.— mea
- I used to believe that every time i went in a store that the grown ups had to buy me something.— jvf
- 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 could swear eleventeen was a number for the longest time -- it still sounds pretty convincing.— erin