I used to believe that each state in the continental US had a big red line painted around its border, like on a map of the US. When on vacation with my family, I eagerly looked for these lines when we crossed state boundaries, and was very disappointed to not see them!
A childhood belief about landscape

others believed things like this
- I used to think that because there was a state called Washington, there was also a state called Dryington.— Jasonchic
- I used to believe that America was a state near the one I live in.Anon
- I used to believe that California was my house, not the state I lived in.— Katie
- I thought Albania was the state of AlabamaAnon
- I used to think the entire state of Pennsylvania was made out of pencils.— Pencil-vania
- I used to believe that China was attached to the United States somewhere up near Washington state.Anon