I thought a second wasn't a set amount of time but just the shortest time you could say something in. For example, I would count to 10 as fast as I could and would think that was 10 seconds
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- When I was little i thought that seconds were so fast that you couldn't count them.— Baby
- I thought that Count Dracula was the count from Sesame StreetAnon
- I thought to count to one thousand you did 1-100, then 100-199, then came 1,000.— Anon!
- For the longest time I didn't know that Spinal Tap wasn't a real group. No wonder I couldn't find their music.— Louis
- Until just a few seconds ago, I thought gherkins were beans or something weird like natto...Anon
- When I was younger, I thought a serial killer was a person who ate a ridiculous amount of cereal— Aja