I used to believe that countries really had their names written across them and that when you reached a border there would be a red dotted line on the ground.
A childhood belief about places

others believed things like this
- Living near Canada's border without cable, I didn't know I was American. — Romania
- I thought ground beef was the meat they scraped off the ground at the slaughterhouse. Yuck.Anon
- I used to believe that clouds were foreign countries.— Ade
- I used to think the "Cold War" was a war where countries tried to freeze each other to win the war. Anon
- I used to believe that yodeling was illegal in certain countries.Anon
- I used to believe that once you reached a certain age you lost your imagination— Kiwi