I used to think the world wasn't round like a globe but more like a spherical cork screw, think helter-skelter or corkscrew slide.
My young mind couldn't manage the idea of people standing upside down on a ball, and having this corkscrew arrangement made perfect sense.
A childhood belief about places
others believed things like this
- When my dad was young,he used to believe that the lines on a globe were on the world itself.— LINE MACHINES!
- when i was young i thought that a giant made the world slowly spin!— ~kassie~
- When I was younger, I used to think people in China walked upside down.— Max
- At a young age I couldn't imagine how people without glasses could marry the ones wearing them. — Ana
- I used to think volleyball was actually called "ball-y ball"Anon
- I used to belive that the New Years ball exploded, and people who were near it died.— Angela