I used to think "foreign" was a country, since I heard people saying "foreign country" a lot. And I also use to think America's president (at the time Bill Clinton) is also president for every single country in the whole world.
A childhood belief about places

others believed things like this
- I heard my mum talking about foreign people, and I later asked, "have you ever been to Foreign?"— Kia
- I used to think that America was the only country that had cars.Anon
- I used to think wars started when a sergeant from one country socked a sergeant from another country.— recovering
- I used to believe that every country in the world had the same time. Guess I didn't consider time zones eh?— what are time zones again
- I used to belive, that USSR is the best country in the World...:(— Iryna
- My younger sibling thought that Brittany was the name of the country where British people livedAnon