When I was about four, I thought that each country was a separate planet and that they were connected by long strips of water. When I drew a picture showing this, my mother disabused me.
A childhood belief about landscape

others believed things like this
- I used to think each country was it's own planet.— erin clements
- i used to believe that every country was a different planet!— bianca
- I used to believe that the United States were a planet, since I'm from another country.Anon
- Whenever I saw a picture of a whale spouting water, I thought it was urinating.Anon
- My partner thought women used the brown packing tape as wax strips.— Helen
- When I was little I thought that if I stayed a long time in the water I would become a mermaid.— Salma