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I used to belived that Washington, D.C. was located in Washington state, the same way that New York City is located in New York state.

Maeghan Jade

When I was about four or five I thought that the world was divided in two from north to south, and that everything on the 'other side' has an exact copy of everything on 'this side', including myself. I was actually looking forward to growing up so I could travel to the other side and meet my 'clone', see what she's been up to.

Anon

i used to think that bethleham was in australia, like just out in the desert somewhere

joanna

wen i was little i use to think that random was a place because on tv the presenters always use to say "the winners will be picked at random" and i always use to think those random bastads win everything!!!

Amy

For whatever reason I thought that if you stepped right on the equater you would get sucked to the center of the earth.

Anon

This is quite sad. A friend of mine, in high school, thought that Alaska was an island surrounded by a box in the Pacific Ocean.

Anon

My grandparents on both sides came to Australia with their families from Britain in the 1920s, as did many of their friends and, like many Australians, still referred to Britain as "home". This was very confusing to me as a child, trying to imagine a house so huge as to have so many people in it. Then one day I saw a picture of Buckingham Palace - ah! - that explained it! I had a rather grandiose idea of my family origins for years afterwards.

Swanny

I used to believe the world map was only one half of the planet. One day i said to my brother "when i grow up, im gonna discover the other half! ^_^'

S.O.

I used to believe my Dad when he told me that many people that lived in our Canadian capital city Ottawa couldn't say "Ottawa" so they relocated to "Oshawa"... both cities are in Ontario.

Yup. I believed it.

Lisa

When my family took a trip to NYC my sister even though she was 15 thought the Waldorf was a remembrance site of a small persons activist site in which a dwarf was cemented to a wall as a punishment for rioting.

Michelle Angela K.

I was sure that Adelaide (where I lived) was the capital of Australia because they both started with
"A"

fiona

I used to believe that Kansas was really black and white because of the Wizard of Oz.

Valerie F.

I used to believe that clouds were other continets seen fron down side. So people actually lived in the upper side of the clouds.

Erick Alain

Whenever I didn't want to finish all my meal my mum would say "think of all the starving children in Africa".

I used to think "I AM thinking of the starving children in Africa!" I thought that all the food that got put in the bin went to rubbish tips in Africa because I had seen the poverty stricken people in those countries on the news scavenging through rubbish. SO I thought that what ever food I didn't eat would get sent out to the rubbish tips for them.

I really never used to understand my mum!!

Rachel

While growing up in the Appalachian foothills, I believed that we drove past Mount Rushmore on the way to my grandparents' house, less than 50 miles away. These rocks were just places that the highway had been cut through the mountains, so of course they looked nothing like faces. That didn't shatter my beliefs, however. Nor did the lack of tourists. I instead just thought that adults must be idiots to think that those rocks were special.

Anon

I used to believe Germany was in Asia somewhere near Russia.

It's in Europe!

I used to think the Salvation Army was a real army, and I never went with my mother to give donations because I was scared of the army men and their guns.

Anon

I used to believe that if it were raining where I was, then it was raining everywhere else in the world. The same goes for sunshine, snow, etc. I thought the entire world experienced the same weather at the same time.

Dan

i used to beleive that the world was round but we lived on the inside of it. i thought if u jumped to high then u would fall to the other side of the earth. and the stars were city lights from the other cities around the world.

had-a-good-imagination

When I first heard the word 'suburbia' on TV, I thought it was the name of some exotic country in Asia. I was kind of disappointed when my mom told me it was just a term for a part of a city.

Toujin