Until maybe 8th grade, I didn't know Alaska was attatched to Canada. And neither did my mom, I was looking at a map in my history book, and when she looked at the map, she said "Wait, Alaska's connected to Canada!?"
A childhood belief about places

others believed things like this
- I used to think that Alaska was an island!— Draqula
- 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 think that Hawaii and Alaska were different countries. I wondered were the other 2 states where!— x-nicola-x
- Living near Canada's border without cable, I didn't know I was American. — Romania
- I used to believe that The Mall Of America was in Canada. — Adam