I used to scoff at kids who somehow got the idea the people in Australia were upside down, since I knew that they were exactly like us, except that if they jumped they wouldn't come back down.
A childhood belief about places

others believed things like this
- Like most kids growing up, I believed there was an upside-down word on the other side of the mirror.— Taylor (14)
- When I was younger, I used to think people in China walked upside down.— Max
- Before I knew about death, I used to think people turned back into babies again after they got old. Anon
- i used to believe that a volcano was an upside-down UFO in disguise— Sally
- I used to believe that if you ate a grape upside down it would come out your nose.— Cath
- i thought if you dialed 666 you got upside down policemen.— rufus