Until I was about 3 or 4 years old, I thought that the largest number was 18, and that there could only be 18 of everything. The first time I heard any number past 18 was once when I heard my mom counting to 20 (We were probably having a conversation about numbers), and I asked what the number "nineteennwenty" looked like.
A childhood belief about counting
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that twenty was the largest number in the universe.— Bernardo Fernandez
- When I was little I thought you could get arrested if you accidentally skipped a number while counting.— Hailey
- when i was little i believed that your social security number was the number you were born on the earth — christine
- I thought everyone only had a set number of breaths before they died.
I breathed slowly for a long time.Anon - I used to believe that after the number "ten" came the numbers "tendy-one, tendy-two..." etc.Anon
- i could swear eleventeen was a number for the longest time -- it still sounds pretty convincing.— erin