My brother had a map of the United States up on his wall. I knew that we lived in Illinois, and what Illinois looked like on the map. But I thought that ONLY my family lived on that spot on the map, like that was where our house was. And our neighbors across the street lived on the Wisconsin spot. A house next door would be Indiana, stuff like that, even though I knew it was a map of the United States.
A childhood belief about places

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that America was one of the states of the United States.— Limor
- When I was little, I used to believe that Illinois (where I lived) was a countryAnon
- i used to think France was in the united states
— TY - I used to think that Los Angeles took up half the United StatesAnon
- I used to believe that the United States were a planet, since I'm from another country.Anon
- I used to believe that the maps for the United States and Texas were identical.— JTexas