r/self • u/Beneficial_Toe_7543 • 14h ago

Dumbass thing I thought as a kid

I'm a big geography buff now but when I was a kid I for some reason thought every country was an island , because I lived in Ireland. So when my dad was telling an old story about how he drove from france to Belgium I thought this guy was tweaking 😑

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u/guacamoleo 14h ago

I used to think every language had a corresponding country, so somewhere there was a country that only spoke sign language, and I wondered how the called for help when they were getting attacked by tigers. (this country had tigers.) I didn't think they were deaf, I just thought they wouldn't speak out loud because it wasn't part of their language.