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When i was little i thought casualty was a big hospital in london

Anon

When I was young we lived in a town that was connected to a larger town by crossing a bridge across the river. We could see only the top of this bridge from our home and I used to be afraid to drive to the next town because I thought we had to drive across the top of bridge to get there and I was afraid we would fall through to the river.

Janet

When I was about 7, I was told we were moving to Hawaii. I envisioned us living in grass huts with one room, no roads and worst of all ~gasp~ no TV! I was terribly upset. I still live here today...

Polly

My brother once told me that the world would become so polluted that one day it would explode.
Shortly afterwards I overheard a news report on the television about NASA revealing more "evidence in support of the Big Bang Theory".
For several days I was absolutely terrified.

Richard Green

When I was 6 or 7, my dad was temporarily relocated to Austin, Texas. (We lived in Dallas at the time.) He would commute back and forth on weekends, but one day, my mom, brother and I actually drove down to with him to spend the week. I was so excited to be going--I had never been "out of town" in my memory--so I was repeatedly asking my dad, "Daddy, what's Austin like?" He couldn't communicate to me that it was just another city, and I was relentless in my asking. So, to give me a ridiculous answer that I would laugh at and maybe give up on asking him, he told me, "In Austin, there are lots of wild animals. And everyone eats nothing but breakfast cereal." I was shocked. "Really?" I asked. He thought it was so funny that I actually believed him that he told me all about it, and how everyone's favorite meal is a really cool breakfast cereal thing called fruit soup. When we passed a deer crossing sign, I knew that had to mean that it was true: there WERE wild animals in Austin. I was so disappointed when we got there and there were no wild animals and we ate plain old hamburgers!

Kootie

Ok, this one is about my brother.

Years ago, my family went up to Maine. Over there, we were go suppossed to go on a cruise to Canada. Unfortunately, there was a storm and we couldn't go.

My brother came to a conclusion that Canada was an island! I had to prove it to him, when he was 11, that Canada is connected to the US!

Rebecca Sears

When I was younger, to while away the hours, a few friends and I dug holes in the ground to see how deep we could go, well I was totally convinced that one day if we dug deep enough (like, just a couple of feet!!), that we would dig right through to Australia, imagine my disappointment when I realised that was never going to happen, by the way, I'm going to Australia next year, by......PLANE hahaha ( do you think someone in Australia might have thought the same thing and think they could dig through to Britain??) I wonder....

Giz

I grew up in southern long island, New York, and went to the beach a lot. The horizon of one particular beach I went to a lot had a bit of land in the far distance. I knew that England was across the ocean, and I assumed that land in the distance was england. When i was 4, i almost drowned trying to swim there ( i wanted to meet the Queen so badly!). My brother saved me and crushed my beliefs by telling me the land was not england; it was staten island and queens. go figure.

JC

i used to believe that when the sun went down, it actually went down into the earth over in japan, and that's why it was called the land of the rising sun

danielle

When I was younger I thought the farthest place in the world was Sacramento California. I have no clue why, I was from Arizona and Sacramento isn't THAT far from me.

Allie

Not soooo long ago, i used to believe that Thailand was the place where all ties grew, on bushes, and that women picked the ties and the men packed them to ship around the world.

praneil

Being Canadian, I used to believe that if you went to the United States, the border guard might require you to know the American national anthem ("The Rocket's Red Glare") or the Pledge of Allegiance in order to be admitted.

Oddly, before the time when I remember thinking this, we had lived in Quebec's Eastern Townships near the US border, so we went across the border frequently. I guess my brother and I must have been too young to have to be able to recite...!

Matt

My dad was a journalist, and so we used to listen to the news on CBC Radio all the time. I was born in New Brunswick and lived there till I was 5. From listening to the news, I somehow gathered that Moncton and Moscow were the same city.

Matt

I used to beleive that the state that i lived in was it's own country, and that all the other state's were countries too.

not so smart

When i was about 2-10 (i know its a long time!) i used to think that the world was one big head and that everything on "the head" was lice. when i found out in 5th grade my friends started making fun of me but now if you think about it its kind of funny!

marrianne

My Grandparents live in England, they always have. I live in the USA, and when I was a little girl I would go to the beach and stare really hard over the Atlantic- right into the horizon. I really believed that I could see England.

jennifer

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