I'm not quite sure when I realized the err of my thinking, but for awhile, I thought Pennsylvania (where I live) was pretty much the entire country, and the states that border us were really far away. Someone I knew was moving to Ohio and I was aghast at how "far" she'd be. I'm pretty embarrassed that I was like, eight or nine when I thought this. I knew that Santa Claus was fake & had a basic grasp of what sex was, but I really thought our state was so damn important that it was the whole country. Blame it on the state maps the teacher used! Not a full nation map, just our own. It certainly *looked* big to me.
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
- I used to think the entire state of Pennsylvania was made out of pencils.— Pencil-vania
- I used to think that running cross-country meant you ran across the entire nation!Anon
- Since I was born on the 4th of July, I really thought the entire country celebrated my birthday.— -Stoddard
- I used to believe that China was attached to the United States somewhere up near Washington state.Anon
- I used to believe that the United States were a planet, since I'm from another country.Anon