I used to believe that people were talking about Kenton in Greater London when they were talking about the county Kent, and wondered how people could have beach holidays there when it is inland and not coastal.
A childhood belief about places

others believed things like this
- I used to believe the people of television were talking to me alone !— Margaux, a French student in eighth grade
- That people older than me knew what they were talking about.— Mark
- When I was younger - I used to believe my stomach rumbling was little people in there talking to me.Anon
- I heard my mum talking about foreign people, and I later asked, "have you ever been to Foreign?"— Kia
- I used to believe a tornado was a omato flying around and wondered why people were afraid of them.Anon
- i always wondered why people sent plums to the queen, in the anthem "send her victorias"— anon uk