When my older sister signed up for cross-country running I assumed she was going to be able to bring me back things from the other side of the country.

Soap

Haha, I used to believe (2 or 3 years ago) that Las Vegas was LOST Vegas and that it couldn't be found and it was shrouded in mist!

Sam

When I was younger, I had a geography problem. I believed that Europe was just above Canada. Except Italy, of course. In my mind that was sticking off the side of Russia.

geographically challenged

When we were little my family would visit relatives in Mississippi every summer. The first time my youngest sister made the drive with us she very seriously leaned over the front seat half way through the drive and asked my Dad when we would be to "Mrs. Hippies" house!

Andrea Kelly

i used to believe that north meant up and south meant down. this resulted in the belief that oklahoma was actually really far above texas... like it was stacked. why else would you use planes?

cameron

When my family went to visit my Father's side of the family in Ireland from Canada I was expecting things to be so much different that the air would be a different colour (I was envisioning pink) and was surprised and disappointed that most things (including the air) were much the same.

Paddy Silverstein

When i was young, i used to think that the borders of countries were actually thick concrete fences with barbed wire on top the stretched high into the sky. They would be guarded by men with guns and any thing or anyone entering or exiting, even planes!, had to be run by them and they would decide whether to open the gate for you.

Michael

I used to think that each country was stacked on top of each other. That's why planes took off into the sky after all!
Because of this, I used to watch Golf and get worried as the ball went down the hole. I was keen for the golfer to get it right away before it'd fall through to another world.

Mike Bilsborough

I come from a very large family and I am the youngest. I used to believe that when my older Brothers & Sisters were going out "To Play", I honestly thought there was a place called "Play" that they all ventured to and it was some sort of fantasy land and I wanted to be a part of it..
Was I wrong and disappointed!!

Jason Lewis

i used to believe that my brother lived at the bottom of my sand pit. He actually lived in Australia, but my dad told me that if i could dig all the way through the the sand, then the earth itself, i'd actually come out in Australia, and i'd be able to see my brother. I spent many an afternoon digging and digging, but i never found him.

Heat

My big sister was told by my older brother that our home county of the Isle Of Wight, England was the designated target for three nuclear warheads, should war be declared. She realised he was lying when she was 20 years old. Studying for a degree.

she's very special

As a tiny kid in the Midwest, I used to overhear the tv newscasters talking about the Mid-East. I was embarrassingly old when I finally realized that they weren't actually talking about Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee.

propchick

I grew up in Birmingham, England and became interested in the exotic animals of Africa such as lions, monkeys, giraffes, elephants and so on. As a child of 3 or 4 I had no concept of outside the city let alone other countries and continents. Being introduced to these creatures I had to somehow place them satisfactorily in my comprehension of the world. So I worked out that at the end of my street, the part that I was not allowed to play in, there must be a huge wall and on the other side of that wall was Africa and that was where all those exotic animals lived.

Lee, England

Not soooo long ago, i used to believe that Thailand was the place where all ties grew, on bushes, and that women picked the ties and the men packed them to ship around the world.

praneil

When I was little I used to believe that in those ball play pit things at Chucky Cheese's there were big mice (like Chucky Cheese) but evil waiting to kill me...I didn't get in one until I was 9.

Also, when I was younger I used to believe that Turkey was the capitol of Kentucky...because Kentucky Fried Chicken. I was heartbroken when I discovered it was a country in Europe

Rochalle

Until recently I thought that Scotland was seperate from England. I am 27

Anon

When I was little I used to believe that I had made up the country Italy (random I know, I have no idea where it came from). I was always surprised if other people knew about it, and I was only eight when I finally sussed it. I was devastated.

Someone-Who-Will-Remain-Anonymous

When I was in elementary school I had no idea that Great Britain and Enlgand were the same county or even in the same general area. Imagine my confusement when I heard about the UK, too.

Anon

I used to think the world wasn't round like a globe but more like a spherical cork screw, think helter-skelter or corkscrew slide.

My young mind couldn't manage the idea of people standing upside down on a ball, and having this corkscrew arrangement made perfect sense.

Mike Hargreaves

When I was around four, I believed that all countries were separated by water and that the US states were also separated by water. In my mind, the water boundaries were what made them separate countries or states.

Dave