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When i was just about able to read i came across a map of Scotland which included all the Lochs. "Loch" being the German word for "hole" I assumed that here must be a country there just full of holes. A bit like in Yellow Submarine I suppose.
Tim (Cologne)
When I was young growing up in America I watched the news with my parents a lot. One day I hered the reporter saing the they are having problems "overseas" and thought that there must have been a new 51st state called "overseas". A week after that I got a US map and counted fifty, i was extremely upset that the map makers riped me off and told my parents... yea. Now i can name every contry in the world and most of there capitals :)
patrick - new jersey, america
When I(from India) was in USA for an assignement(Software), I found that my Manager believed, everybody in India had Elephants just like people in US had Cars.She couldn't understand why we laughed for a looong time before we could explain her.
4-legged-sedan
i used to believe that 'overseas' was a country
anon
top belief!
I used to look at a map of the world and think that it was only half of the world, and that when I flipped over the map, the other half of the world should be there. I would demand "but where is the other half of the world?" and become very distressed that grownups apparently weren't alarmed that half of the world was missing, which made me think that they were being brainwashed and I was the only one who knew that some greater power was trying to hoodwink us, or else the other half of the world didn't show up on the map because it wasn't discovered yet. I swore to become an explorer and find the other half of the world when I grew up. And yup -- I love traveling the world, though I know all the major landmasses are where they are supposed to be.
moon grocer
When I was younger, I believed that the evening news was all make believe. There really weren't places called Iran, Russia, China, England. I thought it was the US government trying to scare Americans so that we would let them do what they wanted to. Go figure, I'm a politician now!!!
Velma
When I was four, my aunt took us to Biloxi Beach in Mississippi. While swimming in the Gulf I kept wondering what was on the other side and decided it must be Greece. I think I got this because I watched an old spy movie a few nights before our trip and one of the female spies was Greek.
Guppy Girl
As a child in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, UK I couldn't quite understand why the capital of Poland was so near - I thought there was a geographical timewarp that confused Walsall with Warsaw!
Catherine
My sister had asked me how the Statue of Liberty got all the way from France to the U.S. Being the big sister I explained how 100 men swam it accross the ocean and were too tired to bring it on land and that is why it is in the NY harbor. Later that week she came home and hit me in the shoulder, hard! Apparently she believed it and shared it with the class. He he he! (20 years later she still belives my stories!)
Rachel
As I child I used to wonder how letters could be sent from one country to another when one only paid postage in one country. Who paid for the letter being forwarded in its destination country? So I imagined all the post offices all over the world meticulously keeping track of how many letters from each country they transported, and then at the end of the year they would bill each other.
The Pi
Peter Pan was one of my favourite children's stories. And because of that I was always interested in people talking about the Netherlands even if they insisted on using the abbreviated name for the Never Never lands.
fubar
I used to be certain that the carving of the 3 presidents in the USA was natural and that it was just a coincidence that they bore a resemblence to real presidents. I was 20 and studying for a degree before i was informed that this was not the case.
hellen
When I was little I believed that all countries and continents were actually floating on the water and not attached to the earth. I could never work out why they didnt float around all over the place though!
london
my boyfriend's daughter when she was about 5 or 6, everytime they drove by the ABC store (Alcoholic Beverage Stores in the States) she would beg her dad to take her into the "toy" store. She refused to believe that they didn't sell toys until he took her in and showed her that all they had was bottles!!
andrea
As the child of a Baptist minister and sheltered from "things of the world", I was a college student when I learned that a package store is not where you go to buy packages to wrap your gifts in!
Until I was about 9 I believe that we used to go to "Corvall" for our holidays... wasn't until I actually bothered to look at a postcard and wondered where Cornwall was...???
Boo
When I was little, I was convinced that Europe was pronounced like "your rope", and "Yurip (how Europe actually IS pronounced)" was a country within Europe.
Bunny
Someone told me if you dug and dug and dug you'd eventually reach Australia!!!
My big sister was told by my older brother that our home county of the Isle Of Wight, England was the designated target for three nuclear warheads, should war be declared. She realised he was lying when she was 20 years old. Studying for a degree.
she's very special
I grew up in Seattle, Washington. I use to think that it rained everywhere in the world like it rained in Seattle... Every where BUT Hawaii.
Jennifer Wallis
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