When I was little I used to believe that I had made up the country Italy (random I know, I have no idea where it came from). I was always surprised if other people knew about it, and I was only eight when I finally sussed it. I was devastated.
A childhood belief about places

others believed things like this
- On TV game sows when they said the winners were chosen "at random" I thought random was a town.Anon
- I used to think Hungary and Turkey were the same country... I have no idea where that came from...— Skylla
- i used to believe that random people would win a pulit-surprize.— timmy
- I used to believe that Paris was the capital of London and Italy was the capital of France.Anon
- My younger sibling thought that Brittany was the name of the country where British people livedAnon
- i was convinced that snow was pink, i was devastated the first i saw real snow.Anon