I used to live in Hawaii while my extended family lived in Utah. We would find ourselves visiting them often, so I thought the entire continental United States was called "Utah."
A childhood belief about places

others believed things like this
- I grew up in Hawaii, and was pretty sure that our country, the United States, was the fiftieth stateAnon
- my friends mom used to sing "you talk sense" instead of utah saints.— nikki
- I used to believe that the United States covered almost the entire planet.— RAB
- I used to believe that America was one of the states of the United States.— Limor
- I used to think that Hawaii and Alaska were different countries. I wondered were the other 2 states where!— x-nicola-x
- i used to think France was in the united states
— TY