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I used to believe that the state of nebraska was just and urban myth. It had never occured to me at all why anyone would want to live there. I thought it was a HUGE government conspiracy, and I was the only one who knew the truth. I used to secretly black it out with my pen whenever I saw the darn thing on a map. and when people would ask me what the heck I was doing I would say something like - You dont know what your saying! You like to eat shoe-laces! Thats why you dont have any!- and then when they looked down at their feet I would run away.

i still blot it out

I thought Oklahoma was a place in Japan (due to it weird name :P), and Japan gave it to USA later.

Luiz Alfonso

When I was young, shredded wheat was made in Niagara Falls and the package had a picture of shredded wheat going over Niagara Falls. When I saw Niagara Falls for the first time at eight years old,I wondered where the shredded wheat was!

Norma

I used to always forget the word 'vagina' and thought it was 'china' instead. I always wondered why they named a country after my 'special place'. also the country 'chad' confused me, as i knew a kid named chad. oh, and who wasn't confused by 'chile'?

k8

I used to think that if i looked through small cracks in the ground, I could see my aunt Martha in Australia hanging up the her bra on the washing line. Odd, but true.

Aidan

I used to believe that when grownups talked about "joining the Common Market" as we were at that time, that this meant we all had to move house and go and live in this huge market somewhere, also that "Downham " a town close to us was actually Denmark and if I ever went there, suddenly everyone would be wearing clogs and pointed caps like in my childhood atlas

teresa

I used to think that my state flag (Arkansas) was the same thing as the American flag. I guess I thought they were the same place and I couldn't understand why there were two flags for one place.

Lady J

I used to believe that the world was infinite, a non-ending loop with repeating continents. Also, I thought that on the next loop there was an clone of me, doing exactly what I were doing.

Luiz Alfonso

when i was 9 i somehow got the idea that mexico was a city in spain.

my 4 year old sister would always say how she knew that mexico and spain were 2 different places and i would strongly disagree.

imagine the embarrassment when i was at a party for my soccer team and i told them, 'get this! my sister thinks that spain and mexico are 2 different places! she doesnt even kno that mexico is in spain!'

i got shown up by my lil sis. god i hate that.

kay

i beleived that all the people of atlanta city in the us were gays and lesbians because my brother and my sister were (and still are ) gay and lesbians

alaxendria ( the lesbian )

Once, when I was five, I saw a news broadcast that ended with a shot of a car driving away from the camera and the reporter signing off with, "This John Doe reporting from Chicago". Except I didn't hear "Chicago" but instead, "WatchYerCarGo". I thought that was the name of the biggest city in the Midwest for years afterwards. Even when I knew better I couldn't think of Chicago without visualizing that old gas guzzler pulling away from the curb.

Dave

When i was little i used to think that island were piece of land floating on top of the sea like a boat and there was a chain attaching it to the ocean floor like an achor(so it didn't float away)

Then i found out my country was an island and was devastated to find i had been misleading my friends and my family all my life

Anon

When I was in third grade, living in Syracuse, NY, I used to think Florida was to the north, because we would drive "up" to Disney World. And I used to think Canada was to the south because we would drive "down" to Niagara.

Genevieve

I used to think each country was it's own planet.

erin clements

I'm not sure where this would go, so I'm putting it here. When I was young, my parents bought a little weather measuring kit - you know, the kind with a wind speed guage, weather vane, etc. It came with a poster of various types of clouds, and what sort of weather they signified. Anyway, one picture had a radio tower on the horizon, its top obscured by the extremely low-hanging clouds. In order to call attention to this, the caption ended with the phrase "Note tower in background." As a result, I thought that the tower was named the Note Tower. So, whenever a relative or family friend would return from a trip, and show us a photo of scenery with a radio tower in it somewhere, I would always say "Oh! Did you go see the Note Tower, too?" And nobody ever had a clue what I was talking about.

romulus

I used to believe that if cities had streets with the same names, those were continuous roadways, so if we we kept driving on Oak Street, we would eventually end up on Oak Street in the next town.

Dennis