my older sister always wanted to be a teacher, and at 4, i was an easy target. she did teach me to read and do simple math, but when she tried to teach me about history i got confused somehow -- i think it must have been the louisiana purchase bit. at any rate, i ended up believing that any time we wanted a new state, we sent money over to the english. then they took a huge knife and cut off a big chunk of land and stuck an american flag in it and sailed it across the ocean. when it got here, we stuck it onto the rest of the country. the state shapes were usually all ragged because it was really hard to cut all the way through.
A childhood belief about history
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that I would one day have a dog, and I would teach him to speak, read, and even write!— Gretchen
- When I was little I thought grown ups could fly but wouldn't tell me about it or teach me until I got older.— James the Great
- I grew up in Hawaii, and was pretty sure that our country, the United States, was the fiftieth stateAnon
- I used to think that because there was a state called Washington, there was also a state called Dryington.— Jasonchic
- I used to think Mr. Rogers lived at Target because I always saw the Target logo before/after his show.— stephanie
- I used to think that my cat was an alien that had come to teach me how to be good!— laz