places

When my uncle got married, he married a lady from Thailand, and for the longest time i thought it was called "Toyland" and me being 5 i bugged my dad to go there.

jeege

When I was 6 or 7, my sister showed me a map of the world made of cardboard. When she pointed to Egypt, and she said, "That's Egypt. That's where all the mummies are." For the next few weeks I believed that mummies in Egypt would rise and come and kill everyone.

M

I used to think we lived in America.

Amy, Britain

When i was younger and lived in england my
dad told me that people flew around different parts of america, for some reason i imagined that everyone in america had a odd colored house and had a ariplane in there drive away.

Anonymous

When I look at the map of Mexico, I thought that "Michoacan" was a Spanish word for "Michigan" and was derived after it.

Anon

I used to think that people in the Southern Hemisphere used maps and globes with South on top. Apparently, I'm not the only one.

MB

I used to think that the South African city, Cape town was actually called Crap Town. I though that this was a bit insulting for the people living there ^_^

Sugarpuff Angel

I went to Italy with my parents for the first time when I was three years old. It took so long to fly there - nine hours - that I was convinced it was on another planet.

lil_amsterdam

When I was very young, I watched an after school show about polar bears, and the narrator referred to their habitat as "the top of the world: the Arctic." I saw all the ice and thought it was clouds, and since clouds were on top of the world, that must be where they'd gone to film the polar bears. It took my mother a while to explain that we couldn't go up to the clouds to meet the Eskimos and watch the polar bears.

Anon

When I was little i believed that Madison Avenue was a person.

Anon

When I was in sescond grade when my teacher would ask me 2 touch a certain country on the map i as afraid that i would crush thed people living there. I never touch my country in fear that i would kill myself.

M J aaaaaaaaaaaasmith

I used to believe that hotels that rented by the hour were for people who were driving for a long time and wanted to stop and take a nap becuase they were tired of driving. Whenever my family went on vacation I would tell my dad that if he was tired we could find a hotel that rented by the hour so he could sleep.

Innocent

When I was a child, I used to believe that you could dig your way to China, and in China, everything was exactly as it was here only upside down, and exactly the same time of day only night (12 hour time difference). I also believed that there was a person there exactly like a person here, only chinese!

Amelia

When i was around 6 years old i was leaving my place of birth- the Philippines- to move to America....i thought that the whole USA was just Disney World. School, jobs, work -didn't exsist in my mind for all i knew and believed was that i was on my way to live a happy life in Disney World ;)

Joshalin Evans

Whenever there would be a car sale and there would be showlights in the sky, I thought that that was where Hollywood was. I would get so mad at my dad for not taking me to Hollywood when it was so close that I could see the lights!

JO

I grew up in a seaside town, and for several years I thought that everywhere had its own sea. The notion of 'inland' never really occured to me.

Rin

My father, trying to explain maps to me, aged six, showed me Australia and said,"That's where we live". It didn't look much like our house, but adults have funny ways of representing things. But I thought I had it all worked out, and triumphantly said, "And that's where Leonie lives!", pointing to New Guinea, just to the north (Leonie was my friend who lived across the road). Dad patiently explained that it was New Guinea, but I knew that we had lived in New Guinea when I was smaller, and that I had never lived in Leonie's house, so put the whole conversation down to overactive adult imagination.

Swanny

I used to think that New Orleans was in Los Angeles, because I'd seen addresses written "New Orleans, LA".

Hilary

Onec I believed that there were pyramids in Rome. Actually in my mind, Rome and Egypt were the same place, so ther was also sand and deserts and stuff. When, like in age of 12, I was told that ther's no pyramids in Rome, I almost fall over. My whole live was placed on a lie! ;_; No, seriously, It was a shock for me. But I got over it ^^

Maja ^_^

I used to think that Alaska was an island!

Draqula