in kindergarten i thought that the city i lived in was the world, then i found out i lived in a state and i thought the state was the world, and then i thought the US was the world and every continent was inside the US.
A childhood belief about places

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that we lived inside of the world. I asked my Dad who lived on the outside of the world. — Pauline
- I thought the world was black and white because of all the smoke from the bombs in Second World War.— Bjoern
- I used to believe that California was my house, not the state I lived in.— Katie
- I used to think that Shamu was my whale and that he just lived at Sea World and they took care of him for me.Anon
- Until a few years ago, I believed this was a "doggy dog" world, rather than a "dog-eat-dog" world.— jemima
- I used to think that the phrase "It's a dog eat dog world'' was its a dogey dog world.— Gabral