As a young child about 8 to 10 yrs. (I'm 57 now and live in north-central B.C. Canada), I used to think a Columnist & a Communist were much the same thing.My mom once mentioned a columnist & I said is she a Communist?
A childhood belief about politics

others believed things like this
- I used to believe as a child that a Communist and a Columnist were closely related, even one and the same.— Elaine M. Downey
- I used to believe all of North America was Canada and South America was USA..— Daria
- When I was a child I always thought Canada was apart of the US... not its own country!! — clueless youngster
- when I was young, I thought Denmark was a state, just like Deleware and North Dakota.— valerie
- When I was a child I used to believe that there were dinosaurs living in the mountains near where I live.— Teacher LM
- My Mother used to tell me only the good die young and I would live to be 100+ years old because I was bad.— William