When I was about 8-9 years old, I used to think Lesbians were people who had come from a country called Lesbia.
A childhood belief about nationalities
others believed things like this
- I used to think the Black Country region in the UK was called that because everyone lived in darkness there.— K
- Until about age 9, I thought there was a country called "Operaland" where everyone sang instead of talking.Anon
- I used to believe that people from Holland were called "Hollish", like people from Poland are called "Polish"— Sally
- My younger sibling thought that Brittany was the name of the country where British people livedAnon
- I used to think wars started when a sergeant from one country socked a sergeant from another country.— recovering
- I used to believe that tv people were tiny famous people that lived inside that box with a window called TV.— Miguel Horacio