i used to believe that my country is actually the whole world and that other countries were all cities inside my country,so somehow geography was too easy for me as a child! it was after many years that i realized that there's more to the world than where i live,hehe....
A childhood belief about places

others believed things like this
- i used to think, when i was about 4 that i lived inside a whale because i live ion the country Wales— mike
- I used to belive, that USSR is the best country in the World...:(— Iryna
- I used to believe that the moon was another country and that all countries were little planets.Anon
- I used to believe that every country in the world had the same time. Guess I didn't consider time zones eh?— what are time zones again
- When I was a child I always thought Canada was apart of the US... not its own country!! — clueless youngster
- I used to think wars started when a sergeant from one country socked a sergeant from another country.— recovering