until i was 9 i used think Mexico was part of the US and i figured it out it front my class it was embrassing.
A childhood belief about places

others believed things like this
- When I was young, I believed that because my mother was born in New Mexico, that I was part Mexican.Anon
- i used to believe that all of south america was mexico— katie
- I used to believe that Mexico was the capital of Spain— Cadence
- In first grade I believed that I was from Mexico because I could count to ten in Spanish.— Lara Roy
- I used to believe that the Chinese boy in my kindergarten class flew from China every day to get to class.— Debi
- I was very young during the first gulf war and I thought that it was fought in the gulf of mexico.— Kay