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I grew up near a place named Antioch, and when we visited there and my parents would say,"We're going to Antioch.", I'd say," I didn't know I had an Aunty Ock!". That was when I was four and my dad still teases me about it!

Anon

i used to believe that all the countries in the world were in my city and i was like dad can we got to china thinking to myself that it was across the street

kc

I used to think that the world was only the state of virginia. And I had a very distorted view of it in my head and thought that "virginia" was about 100 miles big.

June Courtney

I use to believe that all the people lived in Oklahoma, and nowhere else, i thought the other states were just for vacations.

Honz

i was lead to believe that i used to live in texas. When my babysiter told me that i used to live there i was shocked. then i started talking to my mom about it. she told me that we had never even been there let alone lived there! i was so embarrased even tho i was about 6 or 7. :-!

what ever you want it so be baby!

So, my little cousin, who is 4 years old, knows all the words to the song "Take me home country roads" by John Denver, and she sings it like all the time. Once, when grandma was visiting some relatives in West Virginia, my cousin told everyone she knew that Grandma was in heaven...they all thought she died....really my cousin was just referring to the opening line of the song- "Almost heaven, West Virginia..."

She thought West Virginia was really heaven!!

Spicy Jen

I used to think that Canada was only a 5 minutes drive away (I lived in New Jersey). But years later I learned it is more like an 8 hour dirve. And I must say, I was rather dissapointed

Molly

When my sister was little she thought that down town was New York. Whenever she was there she would sing New york New york.

Mariah

Until I was about 12, I used to beleive that something "norweigian" was from a country called "Norwegia". I defended this almost violently, until my teacher showed me a map and proved Norweiga was not real.

I still dont totally beleive her.

Megan C.

I ued to believe that Random - as in 'names were picked at random' - was a place. I thought there was one place where all competion entries went to be picked.

chris

I used to believe that if I put my finger on a map on the city I was in I could see my finger out the window!

Jenai

I always saw the cartoons about digging a hole to straight through the Earth, and I wanted to try it. I never did, however, because of one fear. I was afraid that when I came out of the whole, with everything being upside down at that point, I would fall out and into the sky. It never struck me that coming out of a hole in China would be just like one in the US.

Elizabeth

When I was 5 years old I was out digging in our yard and I hit a roof shingle! Well now hasn't everyone always talked about digging to China? I thought that I had hit someones roof, (why there rooves would be in the dirt I do not know.) I ran into the house so excited to only get told that I had hit a shingle that was thrown there years and years ago when the previous owners had shingled their roof. I now, obviously know the difference but I gave my parents a good laugh! :)

Stephanie Wall

I didn't realize Egypt wasn't a part of Europe until I saw a museum exhibit about Pharaoh Ramses II when I was 10. Funny thing is, my Mom had to learn the same thing when she took me there!

Walter

When I was a child, my family occasionally rode by a neighborhood about a mile from where we lived. That neighborhood had rows of virtually identical houses. I'm sure such things are common some places, but in my home town at the time such arrangements of houses were quite unusual, that one neighborhood being the only place I'd ever seen them back then. Back then I guess it was current to consider Mars as the quintessential alien place, and anyone who seemed really different or not "in the know" might be asked "Are you from Mars?". I guess that might explain the notion I got back then. That neighborhood of rows of virtually identical houses must have seemed the most unusual place I'd ever seen at the time. I got the idea that that neighborhood was Mars, and I remember thinking of it as Mars for quite some time.

Stephanie

When i was about 8 years old i remember our teacher showing us a map of the world. The world on the map was flat and round, so i thought there was more countrys on the other side. One day when i was in grade 6 i asked my teacher if she would show me other half of the world, i was shocked to find out that was the whole world.

Jade Stone

I used to believe that if someone lived "overseas", it just meant that they lived by the ocean.

Anon

When we went to the airport my mom was going to england but i thought that the air port was england so when we went to the airport i always said were in england!

bob