places

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

I used to beleive Euthanasia was a country. It does sound like one don't you think?

Charley

when i was about 4-6, i thought australia and america where the same place.

anon

When I was about 4 or so years old and my parents took me to the beach, my mom told me that if you dig under the sand really deep you can reach China. So I believed that China was underneath all beaches and if you dug really deep you'd be on top of China and could reach it.

Mamochan

I used to believe that there was a magical world inside my friend's forest (she lives on an acreadge)....though after finding nothing, I think I'm reconsidering XD

therealdeepblue aka Mad-Eye Moody

When I was little, I used to believe that Disneyland was in the clouds. Until I actually went to Disneyland, I figured out it wasn't in the sky, and I felt really stupid! haha :)

haley

I thought that Welsh was a different country, not the term used to call Welsh people! I thought it was an island next to Wales!

Sara

I thought that you could see the Great Wall of China in space because it was so tall it broke through the Earth's atmostphere

x-nicola-x

That the British Isles is a seperate country near Africa. I think the fact that I live in England makes it worse!

x-nicola-x

I thought the borders were determined by a big red rope, that had been there since the beginning of time. I thought passports broke the rope, and when you had walked into the new country, the rope was magically fixed again!

x-nicola-x

I used to think that Hawaii and Alaska were different countries. I wondered were the other 2 states where!

x-nicola-x

I used to believe that picadilly circus was like a giant circus in the centre of london.

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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 believe my Dad when he told me that many people that lived in our Canadian capital city Ottawa couldn't say "Ottawa" so they relocated to "Oshawa"... both cities are in Ontario.

Yup. I believed it.

Lisa

I used to believe that when I took a plane and was going to another country, that I was actually going out to space and the country was on another planet.

Morgan

When I was very little my parents travelled all around Canada with me (we visited every province and territory that existed at the time, except for the Yukon and Prince Edward Island).

We went to Halifax just after the first really warm snap of the spring had melted all the snow, and everything that had been in the snow all winter was now on the sidewalk. My mother commented on the mess, and asked me if I knew why there were poops all over the place.

Maybe she expected me to say "dogs left them and people didn't clean up", or "they were frozen in the snow all winter". But with my head full of new knowledge about Canada's east coast, I theorized that "the lobsters must have done it!"

Brenda