I use to think pedestrians were a special race of people who if you hit them specifically you would get in trouble. I thought there was a country called pedestria.
A childhood belief about nationalities
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that some first names were specifically for children and some were specifically for adults.— Marco
- Until about age 9, I thought there was a country called "Operaland" where everyone sang instead of talking.Anon
- I used to believe "Pedestrians" was a political party like Democrats or Republicans.— August
- I used to think the Black Country region in the UK was called that because everyone lived in darkness there.— K
- My younger sibling thought that Brittany was the name of the country where British people livedAnon
- I used to believe that people from Holland were called "Hollish", like people from Poland are called "Polish"— Sally