places

i used to believe that "North" was whichever way i was facing at the time.. because on the maps in school books the directional star always had north pointing away from me..

kimber

I had a friend who thought everywhere outside London was outside England. We lived in London and had a holiday cottage in Derbyshire, and whenever my friend stayed with us there she thought she was in a foreign country.

Alan, Sheffield

i used to believe that each state was on its own planet. i always used to ask my mom....mom what planet ia florida in???...momwhat planet is new york in???...mom what planet is california and i beleievd that until i turned10

anabelle

In this one I'm actually the mean big sister, but about two years ago I managed to convince my little sister that Canada was down and Mexico was up. We were at the dinner table and my parents just played along. . .after dinner she went and found a map and then got mad at us but the look of utter confusion on her face and then the actual belief was absolutely worth it.


Perhaps the best part of the story. . .my sister was sixteen at the time :)

Sarah

When i was little for some reason i thought that all people from china knew karate.....yeah.

sneakydean

I used to believe that you could dig to the other side of the world on the beach. So whenever we went there, I would just dig.

Emily

my dad told me that hershey park was made completely out of chocolate

Anon

When I was little (maybe 3 or 4) I had an English babysitter and when I asked where England was, I was told England was across the ocean. I live near a body of water and I truly thought it was England on the other side. Everyone had a good laugh when I once screamed out "look we can see England from here!"

Anon

When I was little I used to believe that Disneyland was up on a cloud in the sky because all the commercials on TV had clouds in them. When I found out that DisneyLand was just in California and Florida I was sort of dissapointed.

Anon

i used to believe people lived on both the outside and the inside of the earth. in my mind we lived on the inside and that ment we were really safe because we couldn't get sucked out to space.

Anon

Since all the things on the TV show starving kids in Ethiopia, I thought that in Ethiopia, a BIG factory was there were they built starving people.

I also thought if I didn't donate, Sally Struthers would come to my house with a starving Ethiopian boy and make me feel very bad about myself.

tommy

When I was four my dad got transferred to England for business. I thought that when we flew to England it was another planet. I thought that all the continents were separate globes. Later my version of the world resembled a map spread flattened out like you would see in a text book. I thought the world was one flat plane and no one knew what was on the other side or if there was another side.

Kai

When I was a child, I believed Downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota was actually New York city. I thought anytime my mom or dad took me there, we were going to New York.

Mikey

I used to believe that the country then called Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) was a hydroelectric power station.

Amanda

I used to believe New Zealand and Australia were part of the UK because they have a UK flag on their flags

H

I used to believe that Mexico was the capital of Spain

Cadence

I used to believe that Great Britain and Ireland were both circular in shape and were in the Southern Hemisphere, near Australia after something my Grandad said about Australia having the Queen as their head of state.

Catherine

i used to believe that the battle of Hastings happened in a field at the edge of our village (which is in Somerset)

Katie

My mom's ex honestly believed, until he was thirty no less, that the U.S. capitol, Washington D.C., was located in the state of Washington. He must have missed that day in class when they explain that though the names are similar, the two places are on opposite ends of the country.

Zoya

When I was little I thought there were only two countries in the world: the US and the USSR. I knew the world was round, so I pictured the Soviet Union to the north (it was cold there) and the US kind of in the middle of the globe. Everything else was just water.

sampa