When I was a really little kid, I thought that everyone in the U.S. lived in Ohio (where I lived). I knew there were other states, but I thought people just went there for vacation. I never realised that Ohio was way too tiny for those hundreds of millions of people to live...
A childhood belief about places

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that tv people were tiny famous people that lived inside that box with a window called TV.— Miguel Horacio
- when i was 4 my mom told me we lived in Indiana and i would tell people we lived in DianaAnon
- My younger sibling thought that Brittany was the name of the country where British people livedAnon
- It never occured to me as a child that teachers lived in houses. I thought they lived at school...— Heidi, Pittsburgh, PA
- When I was little I believed that the people on TV lived in there. — linda
- i used to believe that little people lived in the toilets. and that they could eat anything and everything. — bob the pinecreek