I lived in a state capital and enjoyed playing in the capital building as a child. I used to think that all cities had capital buildings and was quite confused when there wasn't one downtown. Luckily, I again live in a state capital so everything is right with the world. :-)
A childhood belief about places

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that Paris was the capital of London and Italy was the capital of France.Anon
- I just to think that Norway was the capital of the world— Elin Norway
- When I was little, I thought that Amsterdam was the world capital of hamsters!— CountryWay
- I was sure that Adelaide (where I lived) was the capital of Australia because they both started with
"A"— fiona - I used to believe that Mexico was the capital of Spain— Cadence
- I used to think the Empire State Building was called the "Ten-past-eight building".— Alex