For about 16 years of my life I thought Alaska was an island near Canada. In the textbooks they always showed it separate from everything!
A childhood belief about places

others believed things like this
- I used to think that Alaska was an island!— Draqula
- i used to believe alaska was an island because of the way they put it on our booksAnon
- I used to believe that the cold war was happening in Siberia or Alaska.— Liam
- I used to think that Hawaii and Alaska were different countries. I wondered were the other 2 states where!— x-nicola-x
- When I was a child I always thought Canada was apart of the US... not its own country!! — clueless youngster
- The buckinghams song "kind of a drag", i always thought they were singing, "Canada Dry"— bobbybobby