I don't know what category this goes in, so I'll put it here. I used to believe that the earth was flat and no matter how my parents tried to convince me I always held firm in my belief that the earth was flat. Whay, I sure didn't see any curves? Not only that, but why aren't people in China falling off since they are supposedly "down" from us? Or people in Antarctica, they aren't down or up from us but on the globe they are down. So why don't they fall off? Eventually Dad convinced me because he is a Physics teacher and knows all about that kind of thing... hahaha. Boy, was I stupid...
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When I was about 8-9 years old, I used to think Lesbians were people who had come from a country called Lesbia.
When I was a little kid and had lots of toys and many other house utility things …….all of them with a tag….. made in japan . I believed that japan was the only country in the world that made most of the things and supplied to all the countries . and I used to cherish anything that was made in u.s.a (America} like the schaefer pen ! . and yet believed japan to be the most productive country in the world for other things.
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I used to believe that checks and credit cards allowed you to get anything you wanted with out paying for it.
On my first holidays (I was about 4) my parents took me to Italy. I thought the Italians were very poor people because for 1 mark you could buy 1000 Italian Lire.
When I was young, I saw on TV that the US President was named Reagan, which is very similar to the German word "Regen" (meaning "rain") so I thought the Americans say "Reagan" for rain.
I was told that if you dug a hole deep enough (from the US), that you'd end up in China. I wondered what kids were told in other places, like maybe Africa, but as I've asked people from all over, it seems that they never really thought about it.
When I was in the 7th grade, our country was in a huge depate over Quebec seperating. One day in Social Studies we were discussing the repercussions if this were to happen. One boy in my class raised his hand and asked "Will we feel it?"
My teacher perplexed by the question asked the boy what he meant.
"Well if Quebec seperates will we feel it? Will there be an earthquake?"
He actually believed that if Quebec seperated it would actually be cut away from Canada by huge jackhammers!
When I was about 6 I wanted to be a professional baseball player, but I was very upset to see that they all chewed tobacco. I was very excited to discover that when you chewed on lots of tootsie rolls that it looked like you were chewing tobacco. I figured when I got to the major leagues I would fool them that way
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I thought the the white house was really near where I lived and we sometime drove by it on the freeway. It was just a building that had colums in the front.
When I was about four or five I thought that the world was divided in two from north to south, and that everything on the 'other side' has an exact copy of everything on 'this side', including myself. I was actually looking forward to growing up so I could travel to the other side and meet my 'clone', see what she's been up to.
i used to believe that hawaii was on the east coast, near the bahamas, and that europe was directly west of california.
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I used to think that there were no stores in Kentucky.
When i was in kindergarten George Bush was president(the first George Bush) and there was this kid in my class whos last name was bush and i thought he was the president's kid.
I used to believe that people could take as much money as they wanted out of atm's (automatic teller machines at banks). I thought you just say how much you want and the machine gives the money to you.
When I was little and I saw the picture on the $1 bill I didn't know who it was. I knew the person had to be important, so I tried to think who the most important person in the world was. Finally I figured it out: the most important Person in the world was--GOD! So until I was about ten or so I thought the picture on the $1 bill was God. Even when I got older and knew better, it took me until I was sixteen or so to stop picturing Washington's picture on the bill while I was praying!
My firend used to to believe this when she was about 7. When she heard that the police have a bad man at "gun point", she asked why all the bad pepople keep on going there. She found out later that Gun Point is not a place.
When I was little I guess 3 or 4 the Housont Oilers fired Bum Phillips as their coach. So my mom came to me and said the Oilers fired Bum Phillips and I started bawling. It took her a while to figure out that in my mind I thought they had shot him. As in Ready, Aim ,Fire.
I saw a sign by a lake that said "No littering - $300 fine" I asked my dad what "fine" meant. He said it meant that if no one saw you littering, you were "fine" and didn't have to pay.
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last week on a train i had a conversation with one of my best friends only to discover that at 18years old she still thought that timbuktoo was imaginary yet gotham city where batman lived was real!!