I had a hard time with clockwise and counterclockwise because I thought you had to know what country you're from to know which one.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that every country in the world had the same time. Guess I didn't consider time zones eh?— what are time zones again
- I used to think wars started when a sergeant from one country socked a sergeant from another country.— recovering
- I thought there was a different moon in every country.Anon
- When I was a kid, I thought there was a country where they spoke Pig Latin. — keyboardplayer
- When I was a child I always thought Canada was apart of the US... not its own country!! — clueless youngster
- Until about age 9, I thought there was a country called "Operaland" where everyone sang instead of talking.Anon