Growing up in Australia we have a lot of people from New Zealand here. Because it is such a small country, i used to belive that Australians where the only people that knew about New Zealand!
I think this continued well into my teens untill i realised lord of the rings was filmed there!
A childhood belief about places

others believed things like this
- I used to believe New Zealand and Australia were part of the UK because they have a UK flag on their flags — H
- i used to think the whole world was new zealand— Matt
- When i was younger up untill i was like 8 or 9 i thought that famous people didnt poop only normal people!!!— kaitlin
- people on soaps didn't know they were being filmed— katherine
- i used to belive anon was an actual person untill i clicked on it just a secon ago lol— lolz
- i used to belive that kidney beans were bean shaped things that grew in kidneys... untill yesterday — Jokey