places

I used to believe that if i dug a hole i will end up in south carolina and pop out the sky

Anon

I used to believe that Hawaii was down by Florida. because that's always where they put it in that little square...oh and I thought Alaska was right next to it.

Anon

I thought the "Continental United States" referred to states only attached to the continent of North America, and that all islands, like Hawaii, belonged to no continent. Until I was 16.

Ari

in elementary school we had to get a pen pal in a different state to find out about that state, I got utah, but no one bothered telling me what a state was so...
my letter to my pen pal in utah was:
"so what language do you guys speak? do you guys have a king & queen, or a president like us". I'm sure they still have my letter to read when they need a pick-me-up

geographically stupid (francis)

I used to think that Los Angeles took up half the United States

Anon

When i was little i have no clue of what age..okay i live in mississippi in north america and i thought that mississippi was like a country and north america was a planet.. i have no clue how i came up with this idea.. and then i figured out north america wasnt one of the 9 planets!!

Pennie

When I was around 7or 8, I had this urge to travel and go out on my own little adventure... I had heard in an old movie that you could dig to China... so that is what I tried to do, only I couldnt lift a shovel very well, so I used a tablespoon to start my digging. When I saw that this was taking too long, I took a trashbag outside and tried to "catch the wind" in it, so that it would lift me up and I could fly there.

Desiree

When I was younger (don't want to mention exact age out of embarassment), I believed that we lived INSIDE the world. My point of revelation came when I was reading about the Great Flood in the Bible. I told my mom it didn't make sense because Noah and his family would have drowned when the water reached the top. She realized she had a lot of explaining to do!

Marianne

up until i was about seven, i could not grasp the concept that their really werent physical dividers between the states, like their were on most maps of the US used for weather.

when i was seven, my family went on the first road trip, and i was severely dissapointed when i found out "crossing the state border" only amounted to viewing a "welcome to" sign

Gertrude Williams

I used to go on holiday with my family to Cornwall every year, and always thought it was a single town called Cormorl.

Anon

I used to believe that we lived inside the world. I was so confused to hear that we didn't because when I looked at the sky it looked like a big blue dome, and it was beyond me that we could live on top of a dome.

Steve

I used to believe that Canada was a territory of the U.S. and was one big forest.

Anon

we lived in cincinnati, ohio when i was a child and quite often drove into kentucky to get places. i was shamefully old before i realized that ky was actually another state b/c naturally i thought you had to go a long way to get to another state.

anne

As a small child (about four years old), I went over my old friend's house and she had a nanny. Her nanny said that she was going to Sweden. I misheard it as "Sweet-n-low" (that brand of artificial sweetener) and I thought "She's going to the place where sweet-n-low is made?"

Happy person

i used to belive that america WAS the world i was preety darn confused b/c i herd that there were many contries but. . .n e wayz yeah i was confused lol

brit

I used to believe that if you kept driving in the direction of a beautiful pink sunset, you would get to my parents homeleand of Lebanon. Once on a trip my dad pointed to the very beautiful sunset up ahead and said something like it reminds him of Lebanon. I thought he said it IS Lebanon. I like the magical-ness of it, still do:)

Soo

As a child, I had the idea that Japan was a country the shape of what I now know to be France, and it was between China and India.

Anon

when i was in 2nd grade, i could not figure out why the poeple in the southern hemisphere didn't fall off the planet.

minh