I used to believe that all the roads of the same name were part of the same road. So if you stayed on Main St. in one city you would eventually continue onto Main St in the next city, and the next one and the next one and so on.

Jonah

Around the age of five, I thought that there was a huge apple somewhere in NYC because of it's nickname, the big apple. I kept asking evryone if they could see it when we watched the New Year's Eve program on TV

Cris

A friend of my mother's moved to Texas when she was little. Her best friend was terrified for her because she was afraid my mother's friend would be shot by Indians. This was the 1950s when Westerns were REALLY popular.

texasbabe

When I was very young, I'd heard of Hong Kong, either in a movie or on the news. I logically believed that this must be the place that King Kong was from.

Jim

when I was little i looked at a map of the United States alot without the other countries., soooo whenever i looked at a globe, I thought canada and mexico were there just to make it look cool

sum guy in maryland

When i was little i thought casualty was a big hospital in london

Anon

When I found out we were moving to "the South" I was upset because I didn't want to live on a houseboat in the bayou and have to fight off alligators and mosquitos.

That's okay, though, for when we got there, many kids asked me what it was like living in Arizona in Teepees without electricity or paved roads.

Desert Rat turned Southern Belle

I thought that Welsh was a different country, not the term used to call Welsh people! I thought it was an island next to Wales!

Sara

When I was little, I thought Transylvania was Pennsylvania and all the vampires and other monsters lived there.

Still doesn't want to travel out East

I used to believe that it wasn't really true that in Arctic regions there could be 24 hours of daylight per day at times. I thought that 24 hours of daylight phenomenon was just a delusion of those who were dying from eating polar bear liver.

Chelsea

I grew up in California, USA, where many city names are of Spanish origin and have kept something like the original pronunciation. I used to believe that the city of San Jose (pronounced 'san ho-say' like the Spanish) was just right next to the city San Jose (pronounced 'san jo-za' as if it were English).

Sandi

I used to believe that there was only one lighthouse in the world and it was at the centre of the earth.

Anon

Many years ago I saw a disaster movie about a bridge collapsing. After that I was insanely frightened whenever my parents took me to Edinburgh, as we had to drive over the Forth Road Bridge to get there...

R

I used to believe that the North Pole was the coldest place in the world and the South Pole was the hottest...

Logica

My family moved to Maryland in time for me to start the second grade there. One day my teacher asked, "Who can name a famous person from Maryland?". I proudly answered, "Maryland Monroe!"

Roxanne

I used to believe that Texas was all black and white, people rode on horses, and everybody carried a gun like in the old western movies. When our airplane had a layover in Texas, I was extremely dissapointed, on the verge of tears, to realize it was really in color, and I only saw one person with a cowboy hat.

Chris

I used to believe that Houston was a place where if you went, you would never be able to return. Kind of like Hotel California or some similarly scary place where they pretend to be nice and never let you leave. My dad used to go there a lot of business trips, and I have a distinct memory of finding out one day that he was packed to go to HOUSTON, and I was so horrified that I blocked our front door and refused to let him go. This wasn't a matter of separation anxiety, it was a matter of personal security! I think I made him late for his flight... I don't know where I got this idea, I could have sworn one of my parents told me, but now that I think about it, it really doesn't make sense that they would, does it?

K

When I was little, my friends and I would make the expedition to "dig to China" atleast twice a year. It was not until my pre-teen years(or maybe older) that I made the Geographical connection that China was on the otherside of the planet. Did you know that? Anyways, my understanding of China was a place deep, deep, deep under the ground that contained treasures and mainly...."china"....you know the kind your grandmother has on her wall that is taken down for special dinners. I really believed that I was going to be the one to find it.

John-Paul Venuto

i used to beleive that the city "amseterdam" in denmark i think, was really called "hamsterdam" and it was infested with hamsters, running all over the streets, and in peoples houses and stuff. When my dad came back from a bussness trip from there i was really mad at him for a week, because he hadnt brought me back a hamster, it wasnt untill he asked me what was wrong, that he told me i was wrong lol.

viki

When I was really little, I believed that there were actually two Texases. I would constantly refer to "the other Texas".

There was, of course, the Texas I lived in, with cities and subdivisions and Wal-Marts, and then there was the "other" Texas, with cowboys and Indians and cattle ranches all over the place.

Severely disillusioned as I was, it took quite a while to grasp this new concept, otherwise known as the passage of time.

oddleng