re: What are some of the things you believed as a kid growing up?

Mines dumb, but I thought that your 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc cousins were determined by the order of your family. For instance, my parents were the oldest on both sides so we were the "1st cousins", the next oldest uncle's kids were the 2nd cousins, so on and so forth. My paternal grandparents had 10 kids(only 7 of those had kids) so everyone would look at me stupid when I said my youngest cousin was my "7th cousin".