I thought that the Far East was the same thing as the east coast of the United States. I once asked my dad, "Don't Grandma and Grandpa live in the Far East?" (they live in Boston) He said no, and then I guess I figured it out!
A childhood belief about places
others believed things like this
- For along time I thought the Middle East and Eastern Europe were just different names for the same place!— Helllowerer
- I used to believe that America was one of the states of the United States.— Limor
- 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