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I used to believe that other coutries were other planets and you had to travel in a spaceship to go to Africa.

Sarah Jane

I used to believe that The Mall Of America was in Canada.

Adam

I thought the "Continental United States" referred to states only attached to the continent of North America, and that all islands, like Hawaii, belonged to no continent. Until I was 16.

Ari

When I was younger, I was gonna go to Mexico for the summer, but I was so confused, cuz I had bought color clothes, but I thought Mexico was black and white!

Mayra

I used to believe that Mexico and my family was in the sky, because we had to take a plane to visit them.

Kara

I used to think that New York was pronounced "Yew Nork"

Anon

When I was little I thought that Washington( D.C. )was in Washington state.

Anon

For some reason I used to think the Christmas of 1977 was going to be the last Christmas ever, for the whole world. There would be no more Christmases forever. WTF, I was 6 then! :-D

Anon

I used to think Romania and Transylvania were one and the same. All of Romania was apparently Transylvania, and they had a booming movie industry. I thought it was the same country that went by two different names.

Ironically, friends who don't know this call me Romania

I used to think that the initials NYC stood for "nobody you're calling"

Anon

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

My little brother thought that if you flew up into the sky and looked down on the earth you'd see the names of states and cities, etc. written like on a map.

JD

I used to believe that the state of nebraska was just and urban myth. It had never occured to me at all why anyone would want to live there. I thought it was a HUGE government conspiracy, and I was the only one who knew the truth. I used to secretly black it out with my pen whenever I saw the darn thing on a map. and when people would ask me what the heck I was doing I would say something like - You dont know what your saying! You like to eat shoe-laces! Thats why you dont have any!- and then when they looked down at their feet I would run away.

i still blot it out

When i was little i thought that people in like China or on the bottom of the globe would do every thing upside down like walk on the ceiling etc.

Dennis

As I loved geography and maps as a small kid, I would look through the pre-Interstate System maps of the United States (1950s). For many years I would examine Washington, D. C. metro maps. At the same time, I looked all over Washington State trying to figure out where Washington, D. C. was. It HAD to be near Seattle?
Washington, D. C. had U.S. 50 running near it but couldn't for the life of me find U.S.50 on the Washington State maps or in the Tacoma-Seattle area. There
was New York, New York, so there had to be a Washington, D. C., Washington . . . right?

Anon

When I was little, I didnt realize the Middle East existed. I would watch Aladdin and think it was set somewhere in Asia or in a land that the Disney company made up for their movies. I didnt realize it was actually supposed to be a place on Earth.

Lily

Until junior high, I always thought of Africa as one whole country with lots of states. No one told me otherwise till the day I answered a question about what was the biggest country in the world. I said it was a tie between Russia and Africa.

Vella Van Jaun

When I was little my grandpa would always call me "Joshy-Washy from Megatoshi." In high school I remember going through my Freshman year Geography text looking in the Mediterranean Sea for the island of Megatoshi.

Josh

I used to believe that Scotland was actually London, because all important things are at the top aren't they?

Ron Bloke

Where I live (near Detroit) there are several nearby streets with names like 9 Mile and 8 Mile. When I was younger I thought the names referred to how long the streets were - 9 Mile was 9 miles long, etc. I thought all streets were named like this!

anonymous