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

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

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 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

I used to believe that the whole country was like a huge skyscraper with different floors because when we would go visit my grandparents in New Jersey, my parents would say that we are "going up" to New Jersey and when my grandparents were coming here to Tennessee that they were "coming down."

Chelsea

When I was a little kid, I was always fascinated with the globe at my grandmother's house. I believed that the Netherlands was Never-never land, from Peter Pan.

Jessica

I used to believe that different countries/continents were actually different planets, like Africa was a big, yellow planet. Strange, but true.

Ryan

I used to think maps and globes were somehow connected to places they represent, so if you touched a point on the map, in that part of the world a giant finger would come out of the sky. I refused to touch maps until I was about 8 years old, because "what if my finger hurts someone?"

Globetrotter

When I was a kid, I thought that the people that lived on the south pole had to hold onto the grass, or they'd fall forever since they were upside down. And I thought the houses were somehow attached to the Earth by the ceilings.

eedz

I remember riding in the car with my mom and having an epiphany. I randomly said out loud " Oh my God. Alaska is attached!" She was confused, so I explained that I had never realized that Alaska is attached to Canada. On maps of the U.S, Alaska and Hawaii are drawn out in the middle of the ocean in their own little boxes. I seriously thought Alaska was and island.
I was 13 when I realized this!

M. Just M.

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

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

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