For along time I thought the Middle East and Eastern Europe were just different names for the same place!
A childhood belief about places

others believed things like this
- For the longest time I thought Pig Latin was an actual language that they spoke in a part of Europe.Anon
- I heard the song about Heaven being a place where nothing ever happened and thought, "What a boring place."Anon
- As my parents had given me a name, I thought that it was up to me to give them names tooAnon
- I used to wander what my name would be in other languages. I thought that names worked the same way as words. — Simon
- I used to believe that flea markets were a place people sold fleas, or the place was infested with fleas— Kelley
- I thought that since my grandpa and my dad's names are both David, than David Bowie must be my aunt's son.Anon