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When I was seven tears old, my family flew from Alabama to Denver. When we we over the plains, I saw the lines dividing farmers fields. I Assumed they were borders separating states and could not understand why there were so many since there are only 50.

Anon

I used to think that people from different states(I live in the USA) spoke different languages. When my parents told me we were leaving going to Colorado for a vacation one year, I became terrified that I would have to learn Spanish! Thankfully, however, I understood everyone there. In fact, my younger self might be surprised to learn from my older self that, living in Arizona, most people seem to a speak a different language from me IN state!

Ally

As a toddler my parents took me on my first airplane trip to visit relatives in Indianapolis. I believed that because we had to take a plane to get there that the city was actually located up in the sky. Even after our visit, I continued to believe that all of my cousins were living up there somewhere in the sky.

athena

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

Honz

When I first moved to Peacehaven I was 6. When we went to London Road in Brighton I used to believe there was a circus at Preston Circus and was so dissapoited when I couldn't see one

Reigna

When I was about 7 years old around Christmas time I was I saw the Bay Bridge and I thought they had strung up christmas lights. Later I realized that it was just the head lights and tail lights on the cars. :)

Elle

OK, it needs some explain for the beginning. In polish, telephone exchange is called "centrala". I'm from Poland and in my early childhood several times I watched cartoons with polish dubbing, where the character called phone and asked "centrala?" Each time I thought that was asking for the name of the town the receiver was in, because "centrala" sounded for me just as the name of the town, like i.e "Warszawa" (Warsaw). Few years later I've learnt what does "centrala" really means, but before that, I seriously believed there's somewhere town called Centrala and I had several funny situations with this, i.e. I was sitting on the toy motorcycle, playing that I'm riding it, and when some aunt asked me jokely where I'm going, i replied "to the Centrala". Boy, you should to see their looks when they heard that =)

Drunked dolphin

There is a town in British Columbia called 100 Mile House. When I was a kid my father told me that it wasn't a town, it was actually a house that was one hundred miles long. I envisioned this gigantic log house building until I was about eleven years old.

lil_amsterdam

I used to believe that California was it's own country, aka "America". When we took a family vacation at Thanksgiving to visit my grandparents in Alaska, I kept asking my parents how many days until we returned to America. They kept telling me that we were, in fact, still in America but just in another state. I still didn't quite get it, but, I kept my mouth shut because I was afraid they were going to get even more upset by my questions.

Angela

I remember thinking that Indiana was India, and it was part of the United States. I remember thinking how cool it was to live in the same country as Aladdin (don't ask).

Jessica Tinch

When I was in kindergarten we were taking a family trip to Florida and my parents explained that we had to take an airplane. Naturally I assumed Florida was in the clouds and was trying to imagine what it would be like to walk in the clouds.

Shay

I used to believe that Timbuctou wasn't a real place.

Leah

I used to think there were two Canadas and two Russias because on the map it shows Canada and Russia twice because they couldn't fit it all in one place on the map.

Anon

When I was little my parents would always tell me to finish my food because there are starving people out in Euthanasia. So growing up, I thought Euthanasia was a place where hungry people live.

JecNucz

I am from a small town in a small county full of small towns in the Midwest of the United States. When I was quite young, our trips away from that small town were adventures of magic and grandeur as far as I knew. Another small town, about half the size of my hometown, was about fifteen minutes away, and we passed through it on our way to my grandparents' house and to the nearest malls. This town was called Wayland. However, for many years, I believed this town was called Whale-land, and I believed that whales lived there. For this reason, I always wanted to visit Whale-land, but we never stopped (because there was nothing there but people's homes, a restaurant, and a gas station; I wanted to see the whales.)

After my parents' divorce, my mother moved to Wayland and I live there when I am with her. Now I know there are no whales, but I do love this town.

Andy H.

I used to think that all commonly names street connected everywhere in the country. For example, if you walked or drove long enough on Elm Drive in Chicago, you would eventually hit Elm Drive in Miami. Never mind the fact that it is physically impossible ...

christy

Thanks to old Warner Brothers and Disney cartoons they used to air on TV all the time, I used to think that Hollywood was just like it was in the 1930s, all the old movie stars like Groucho Marx, Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, Greta Garbo and Mae West were still alive and Shirley Temple was still 6!

LongLiveRock

I used to believe that Australia was a series of concentric circles, with prairie in the middle where kangaroos lived, then a band of jungle for all the creepy crawlies and snakes. There was then a ten feet high brick wall to seperate it from the road, and on the other side of the road were the houses.

Adam

I used to think that the states were on top of each other. I live in Kansas, so that meant that when I looked at the sky the sky would be Nebraska's ground and Kansas ground was Oklahoma's sky. Yeah I knew dirt is brown but it was a optical illusion to make it blue. I was very confused when i heard otherwise.

Rebecca