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When I was young I used to believe that we all lived inside the Earth. Not on it, but inside it, and that if we kept driving we would eventually hit a wall.

Anon

I used to believe the world was all in on my life a bit like the trueman show and when we would go on holiday it was like our house had been transformed into a new scenery and I would try and find something similar to our house in the hotel or my uncles house. The plane ride was a stall for everyone to get everything set up.

Anon

I lived on a dead end street with a group of trees at the very end. I thought that if I went behind the trees I would be in China.

Anon

I used to think that people from the Netherlands spoke Nethish

Anon

When I was 5 years old, I used to believe Poland was snowy and cold all year round, like the North Pole.

Sara

I always believed that we lived in Manchester (we didn't) but it was always the main place on the local news!

Richard M

When there was a Western movie on telly I wondered why the town of Yonder was always nearby...As in 'Over yonder' or 'he was heading off yonder'. Took me years to work out that America was much bigger than I thought.

Lee W.

I lived on the ocean and thought that if I looked really hard that I could indeed see China across the water...no matter what everyone else told me. I also though that the bamboo washed up on the beach had come all the way from China. Cause that's where pandas were and therefor all the bamboo in the world was there too. I think that the whole the earth is round lesson was lost on me until I was quite a bit older.

Anon

i used to believe that places that were North were up in the sky. So I never understood how we drove from Texas to Indiana without going into the sky!

Suzi

when my mother uised to refer to 'all n'sundry' I thought that Sundry was a country and that we were talking about all in Sundry. I was quite worried to hear about 'all in Sundry' knowing our business

Kerray

I used to think that every street in my town ran all the way across the world. When I went to other towns I saw other Maple Streets and State Streets, so I figured they just sort of kept going. I always used to wonder if the Japanese had "Maple St." printed on their signs or if it was translated into Japanese.

Lynn Hinderks

When I was about 5 years, I was fond of a movie about a city called BOMBAY, the movie was a black & white print.

Next year, I went to the place with my uncle, and upon looking outside from train I said, "Uncle, this city is not BOMBAY, I know, BOMBAY is black & white, I have seen it in a movie."

I used to believe BOMBAY is famous because its blank & white.

Viral Patel

When I was about 7 years old, in 1963, my grade school teacher asked 'Can anyone point out Germany on the map?' I confidently walked to the front and pointed to Cuba. I'll always remember the consternation this caused the teacher. Why was I so sure Cuba was Germany? It could only be that Second War films and TV coverage of the Cuban missile crisis had somehow become intermingled in my mind!

peter, london

I used to believe that state lines were actually marked out on the ground somehow - that is, the whole borders of the states all around. I lost this notion pretty quick the first time we took a long car trip :-)

Anon

My hometown is called Nuneaton. Up until about eight years old I always thought is was 'The Neaton'. I only realised otherwise when I entered a colouring competition and had to submit my address, asking my parents how to spell 'The Neaton'.

Stuart

When i was about 3 or 4 i thought that Legoland was situated just past a local factory complex. As in real life its situated in Denmark. I think its because i fell asleep just as we past the factory, and then woke up 4 hours later at Legoland. And also that when you went through the gates you got blown up to gigantic proportions or the world shrunk. I didnt realize that all them buildings there were minitures made of Legos.

Jolly green giant

i used to believe that 'overseas' was a country

anon

When I was a kid, I didn't believe that people actually lived in New Zealand. I have absolutely no idea what made me believe this, but I thought this up until I was about 10 or 11 years old. I thought it was completely inhabited by kiwi birds and uh....other native New Zealander creatures.

Daile

My sister used to think that Sheffield (the city we live in) was actually a country, and that England was a city in the country of Sheffield. We had many many arguments about that, and I won eventually when mum and dad agreed with me.

Anon

When I was little I heard on lots of T.V. shows that parents went backpacking through Europe before college. So I thought that Europe was this barren land with no countries or anything. Just mountains and forests and people hiked for thousands of miles. I always wondered why someone would want to do that. Now I wonder where I used to think all those European countries were...

Obviously not European...