I thought Alaska was an island since it always appears in a box next to Hawaii on a map of the US. I didn't figure it out until high school when my friend said her dad was going on a road trip to Alaska. When I asked her if her dad didn't need to go on a boat, she thought I was kidding.
A childhood belief about places

others believed things like this
- I used to think that Alaska was an island!— Draqula
- 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 believe alaska was an island because of the way they put it on our booksAnon
- I used to believe that the cold war was happening in Siberia or Alaska.— Liam
- I used to believe that when i didn't get money from the toothfairy she was in HawaiiAnon
- i didn't beleive this, but a kid my sister knew thought if he screamed in a really high voice, he ran faster.Anon