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I used to believe that everyone who lived in the city lived in an apartment.
Marideth
I used to believe that Eurostar trains actually went through the water, rather than being built in a tunnel, and thought there must be a station underwater for when people went diving!
top belief!
I used to think Downs Syndrome was caused by living on the downs in the countryside, so when we stayed at this place called Downs Cottage in Devon, I said to the landowners 'how can you be in charge of this place if you both have Downs Syndrome?' Needless to say, we never stayed with them again.
When I was very little, I used to think that there were two New Zealands because how it split on the map!
Azure Autumns
I used to believe that Ireland was called that because it really is an island!
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.
Natasha 
top belief!
I used to believe that India and Indonesia were right next to each other since their names sounded alike
When I was young, after having discovered the planisphere, I used to believe that the world was flat. And when we studied the discovery of America, I didn't understand why all the class said that the world was round. I was and I still very obstinate. Finally, my mother succeeded in making me listen to reason, after 2 days of negociations.
xpurlple
When I was a little girl, I used to believe that if I dug a hole in the floor I could cross the planet and arrive in China to travel all around the country and after, dig some other holes to go to all countries of the world.
So to check if it was true or not, I tried it in my garden but it wasn't a great success and besides my parents thought that there was a mole !!
Me
I used to think there were 52 states beacause I thought there were 50 continental states plus Hawaii and Alaska I beilived this till I was 9
I have often had strange associations with country names, like Kosov sounding like cassava, and macadamia sounding like Macedonia. There are many other Slavic or Balkan country names like this, such as Turkey and Hungary, that certainly does it for me.
My cousin and I both thought Narnia was a real place when I was about eleven and she was about ten. I looked for it in my closet, and she thought a painting on my parents' bedroom wall actually came from Narnia.
When I was young I thought the world was flat
I used to think the entire state of Pennsylvania was made out of pencils.
Pencil-vania
I thought photoshop ment a shop that would edit your photos.
When I was little I used to believe that if i wait until the end of the movies I would see my name in the credits.
The beautiful... 
When I was a child I used to believe that when I touched the floor cracks I would fall to the center of the earth.
Sara
When I was little I wanted to be an explorer. I figured 2D maps of the world were only showing half the Earth, because obviously the Earth is round, and that the other half hadn't been mapped yet. I wanted to be someone that discovered the other half of the Earth.
When I was young i used to think that the world was flat
Ammiel
As a little girl I used to think that the world was magical.
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