When I was about 7 years old I heard the news mention New Mexico. I thought for a long time that it was a "new" part of Mexico that had just been established.
A childhood belief about places

others believed things like this
- When I was young, I believed that because my mother was born in New Mexico, that I was part Mexican.Anon
- i used to believe that all of south america was mexico— katie
- I used to believe that Mexico was the capital of Spain— Cadence
- In first grade I believed that I was from Mexico because I could count to ten in Spanish.— Lara Roy
- I was very young during the first gulf war and I thought that it was fought in the gulf of mexico.— Kay
- Until I was about 13, I believed that the Gulf War took place near the Gulf Of Mexico.... — D