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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

I actually believed that if I dug far enough down I would reach China.

Sirrus Templar

Not my wrong belief, but at least two Exchange Students we had were shocked seeing Australians had world maps without the Americas at the centre, which was the way they had always seen maps in the US, and obviously thought that was the proper way. One at least got the joke when I gave him one with Australia at the top of the world and Greenland at the bottom. Why not? - there is no real "up" or "down" in space.

Swanny

I belived tx was a country

Anon

As a kid, I learned of the city of Birmingham (the one in Alabama), and thought it was named for someone overcooking ham (I thought it was Burningham).

Ellen

When I was little, I used to believe that the clouds in the sky was the North Pole, and that was where Santa Claus lived. I also believed that the nearby industrial area was Sydney (I live in Melbourne). I was a bit disorientated when my parents announced we were actually going to Sydney!

Anon

In my geography class, we went to the library to research our country projects. My friend and I did not have the same country, but we sat next to each other anyway. My country was Australia. We were talking about it and she mentioned how our governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger,came from their. I had to explain to her that Austria is in Europe and Australia was on the opposite side of the Earth. The funny part is that we are 9th graders and it was the highest level geography class.

Mar

When I was young, I lived in a place with lots of mountains. I used to think that those mountains were different countries, like Australia and Canada.

Anon

When I was maybe 4 or 5 the family would be watching the Jackie Gleason show on tv. I remember him saying during the intro "Here we are in Beauuutiful Miami" I kept thinking, well where is his beautiful MAMMY he keeps talking about??

judd