I thought the "Continental United States" referred to states only attached to the continent of North America, and that all islands, like Hawaii, belonged to no continent. Until I was 16.
A childhood belief about places
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that America was one of the states of the United States.— Limor
- I grew up in Hawaii, and was pretty sure that our country, the United States, was the fiftieth stateAnon
- I used to believe that China was attached to the United States somewhere up near Washington state.Anon
- I used to think that Hawaii and Alaska were different countries. I wondered were the other 2 states where!— x-nicola-x
- i used to think France was in the united states
— TY - I used to think that Los Angeles took up half the United StatesAnon