Until about age 7 or 8 I though that North Dakota had a coast, because it only had other states on 3 sides & my home state had 3 states & then the ocean on the 4th side.
A childhood belief about places
others believed things like this
- when I was young, I thought Denmark was a state, just like Deleware and North Dakota.— valerie
- I used to believe that China was attached to the United States somewhere up near Washington state.Anon
- I grew up in Hawaii, and was pretty sure that our country, the United States, was the fiftieth stateAnon
- I used to believe that America was one of the states of the United States.— Limor
- I used to believe that every nation in the world were states of U.S.A. . Sometimes I still do.Anon
- i used to think France was in the united states
— TY