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I used to believe lepers came from Ireland. Like leprechauns, only with less body parts.

Anon

I believed that when I was grown up I would go to the 'poor' countries with one cart full of oranges so the poor children could ALL get some vitamines.

Yvonne Welling

I used to believe that each country is on its own Earth. Therefore there were more than one Earths. And to travel internationally meant planet-hopping from one Earth to the other.

Anna Lim

When I was little my parents would always tell me to finish my food because there are starving people out in Euthanasia. So growing up, I thought Euthanasia was a place where hungry people live.

JecNucz

We have a Iot of family in Chicago and when I was young, I thought Chicago was a state.

JecNucz

When I was about 5, my family moved from California to Colorado. While there, I wondered where the beach was. It wasn't until later that I found out that Colorado was a landlocked state.

Toujin

I used to think that Alaska was an island!

Draqula

I used to believe that my country was in the center of the world and that every other country was around my own. Guess i was a bit selfcentered...

Nuno

Onec I believed that there were pyramids in Rome. Actually in my mind, Rome and Egypt were the same place, so ther was also sand and deserts and stuff. When, like in age of 12, I was told that ther's no pyramids in Rome, I almost fall over. My whole live was placed on a lie! ;_; No, seriously, It was a shock for me. But I got over it ^^

Maja ^_^

I used to think that New Orleans was in Los Angeles, because I'd seen addresses written "New Orleans, LA".

Hilary

I believed that Washington D.C. was in the state of Washington until I was about 17!! I skipped school alot:(

MeMe

I used to think the sun and the moon were the same planet!

ali

I live near a beach and when I was little we'd go down to the beach almost every day. There's an island nearby, and when I was little I'd look out over the water and think that island was England.

When I visited my cousins in California I saw another island off the beach and desided it was Japan. On the way back I reasoned it couldn't be Japan, Japan's too far away. It must have been Hawaii.

Banana Hanna

when my dad used to play this online game i watched him play and when you got to a certain point of the eath there was just black and you fell off i was scared to go outside cause i thought if i walked to far i might fall off the eath

Emily

Not mine but my ex-husband's.
He was always talking aboutliving in 'old mexico' for awhile when he was in his teens. I always thought he said that to differentiate it from the state new mexico. Imagine my suprise (and disbelief) when I found out that my 40 YEAR OLD husband said 'old' mexico because he thought that it was a state, like north and south dakota, east and west virginia there was old and new mexico not just the country of mexico!

Anna

I used to think Germany had a lot of germs...thats why they built a wall...to stop all the germs from comin' in.

GERMany

Until recently I thought that Scotland was seperate from England. I am 27

Anon

I always thought that Hawaii and Alaska were next to each other, just a little bit below, Texas because on Maps they always put them next to each other! I couldn't figure out how two states so close to each other could have such drastically different climates!

Carlee