I have family in several different states, and when I was little, every time someone would talk about these family members, I imagined that they lived crowded together in a long, white hallway, because obviously Ohio was the only state where people had houses and such.
A childhood belief about places

others believed things like this
- I used to think it was an amazing coincidence that all my members of my family had the same name.— Raj
- I used to believe that China was attached to the United States somewhere up near Washington state.Anon
- I grew up in Hawaii, and was pretty sure that our country, the United States, was the fiftieth stateAnon
- I was about 6 and thought my family invented the fart because I never heard anyone outside my family do it.— Bob
- I used to think that in the song"Family Affair, they were saying "It's a family of bears!"— Wayne Huffman
- I used to think that a family of evil bears lived in my grandparent's attic.— jasonchic