On the TV news I was used to them showing a photo of a person's face in the corner of the screen with the name of that person underneath. So one day they showed Ayatollah Khomeini, with "IRAN" underneath, and I thought Iran was his name.
A childhood belief about politics

others believed things like this
- I had a fear of seeing a person in the corner of the mirror(most of the time a morlock)— Shane
- I used to believe that anonymous was a person, and I thought, "Gee, this person writes a LOT of poems!"— Katie Albano
- I thought that islands and continents were floating rocks so you could swim underneath them.— Kat
- i used to believe that when a person moved away, they switched houses with the person that bought their house— alli
- I used to believe that there were red and black spiders underneath the table in the toilet.— Phil
- I really believed, underneath her hair, my mom had an eye in the back of her head.— Jessica