I grew up in Birmingham, England and became interested in the exotic animals of Africa such as lions, monkeys, giraffes, elephants and so on. As a child of 3 or 4 I had no concept of outside the city let alone other countries and continents. Being introduced to these creatures I had to somehow place them satisfactorily in my comprehension of the world. So I worked out that at the end of my street, the part that I was not allowed to play in, there must be a huge wall and on the other side of that wall was Africa and that was where all those exotic animals lived.
A childhood belief about places
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that traveling in cognito was a place in Africa or somewhere.— Jennifer
- I used to think the line in Pink Floyd's Another Brick in the Wall was "No dogs allowed in the classroom."— Gretchen
- I used to believe the Wall Street Crash of 1929 was a literal car crashing into a bank.Anon
- I used to believe that after I cut my stuffed animals hair that it really grew back! — Kristy
- I used to believe that other coutries were other planets and you had to travel in a spaceship to go to Africa.— Sarah Jane
- I used to belive that african was the language they spoke in all of africa— quark