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As a boy living in Brazil, I used to believe that in Portugal there were no cows. They didn't have there any of our animals: the araras, the crocodiles, the jaguars...

Rodrigo

I truly did believe that I could dig to China. My friends and I spent an entire day trying to get there. Unfortunately, once we hit the bottom of their sandbox, we had to start all over out in the yard.
We got about 2 feet down with the shovels before we gave up.

karen

When I was about 5 or 6 I thought that Florida was in the sky, because we took a plane to get there.

Michele

i used to think there were no bathrooms in hawaii.. an no toleit paper.. it was just that strange of a place...

Anon

i used to belive that California was the United States only and that other states were other countries.

Anon

i play blueberry hill with my friends and when i was about 4 i went looking for blueberry hill.unfortunatly i aws looking in my back yard.=)

weird kid

When I was little I used to think that the Erie Canal was named that because it was spooky there.

Cathy

in kindergarten i thought that the city i lived in was the world, then i found out i lived in a state and i thought the state was the world, and then i thought the US was the world and every continent was inside the US.

Jessica

When I was about 7 years old, we moved to Wyoming (usa) and there was a business located near my fathers work called Tokyo Massage. I misread it and thought it said Tokyo Message, and I assumed it was for everyone in Wyoming who was wanting to talk to their friends or loved ones in Tokyo. Later, in Middle school, someone told me that I should work there, and I said something along the lines of "so, I would be good at sending messages" It wasnt until that day that I made the connection, what a loser!

Tokyo dork

I used to believe that Hawaii was down by Florida. because that's always where they put it in that little square...oh and I thought Alaska was right next to it.

Anon

Not mine but my ex-husband's.
He was always talking aboutliving in 'old mexico' for awhile when he was in his teens. I always thought he said that to differentiate it from the state new mexico. Imagine my suprise (and disbelief) when I found out that my 40 YEAR OLD husband said 'old' mexico because he thought that it was a state, like north and south dakota, east and west virginia there was old and new mexico not just the country of mexico!

Anna

For some strange reason I alays thought Quebec was in Saudi Arabia !!! (I guess I must have mixed it up with Quatar) and I genuinely beliieved this until one day in a French lesson when we were watching a video based in Canada all about food. When they went to Quebec I asked why they were speaing French because they speak Arabic in Quebec ! Everyone looked at me like I was insane and I have never lived it down to this day !!

Sam B

i always thougth washington D.C was in washington until 8th grade.

kiki

I used to believe the Earth was just the town I lived, in and that's it!

Richard

When I was 5 we rented a Cabana at the beach and I made a bunch of girlfriends. I went to play with them one day and noticed a huge hole had been dug in front of their Cabana. When I asked their father where they had gone he said, "they dug a hole to China, and said they'd be back tomorrow." I must have sat there for two hours trying to re open the collapsed sand hole to China which had caved in on the sides, to no avail. I was really excited to see they had returned the next day and had plenty of questions for them about China. They just shrugged it off as me being weird, I don't even think they knew what I was talking about!!! What a mean Parent to let me dig for so long in front of his Cabana and not even tell his daughters I was looking for them!!

Owen Elicate

At the age of 3, no one thought to inform me that all the different countries were in one planet. I went on believing that the United States, England, and other countries were each their own little planets in the solar system.

Nicolle Sison

i used to believe that my country is actually the whole world and that other countries were all cities inside my country,so somehow geography was too easy for me as a child! it was after many years that i realized that there's more to the world than where i live,hehe....

di

I used to believe that England was on a cloud because I had been there several times before the age of four. I thought that airplanes just took you straight up!

Amanda

i used to think that desert islands, pirates and kings with their castles don't or didn't exist at all

lacerta

My brother had a map of the United States up on his wall. I knew that we lived in Illinois, and what Illinois looked like on the map. But I thought that ONLY my family lived on that spot on the map, like that was where our house was. And our neighbors across the street lived on the Wisconsin spot. A house next door would be Indiana, stuff like that, even though I knew it was a map of the United States.

Laura