Until I was about 9 I believed that all the globes and maps of the world used by people who lived south of the equator were upside-down to ours in the northern hemisphere with the south pole at the top.
A childhood belief about landscape

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the North Pole was the coldest place in the world and the South Pole was the hottest...— Logica
- I once believed that one could run around the south pole in order to travel backwards and forwards in time.— kaibutsu
- i used to believe that all of south america was mexico— katie
- i used to believe that hawaii was located right south of florida. hey, they both have great weather!— ashley
- I used to believe that north was always straight ahead. I could never face south, but I knew it was behind me!— Bruces
- I used to believe that the world, Earth, was enclosed in glass, like one of those snow globes.— G