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When I was a child I used to believe that black people were made of chocolate

Anon

I used to think when someone had wrinkles on their forehead, it meant they had a headache

Anon

I used to think that all albino people were discoloured blacks.

Anon

I used to believe that someone wearing a lapel pin on their shirt or a name badge had it stuck into their flesh through their shirt. Then I learned that there was a clasp in-between holding to their shirt.

Jory

I thought that all black people were African-American

Anon

I used to think that hand sanitizer was poisonous

german

My Jewish friend has a mole on the exact middle of his knee, and so do his other family members. Since he and his family were the only Jewish people i knew, I thought that only Jewish people had moles in the middle of their knees while other nationalities had them on a different spot in the knee, since I was Norwegian-American and most of my friends were American/Mexican and didn't have moles in the middle of our knees.

Ingrid

I once watched a video on youtube where a man slices his knee on a sharp rock and he gets a deep gash in his knee, when i was 5, and I was scared that if i got a deep gash in my knee, and I would die slowly since blood comes out

Anon

I used to think that African-American people ate lots of chocolate, which explained their skin color.

Ed

I used to think that people with freckles were smarter than people who didn't. Since i had freckles, i thought i was smarter than my other friends

Marcia

When i was like six or seven years old, I once thought that when someone said something about "black people", it referred to their hair color, not their skin. Because of that, I thought that I was black, since I had black hair. I don't even know why I thought that, since I'm actually far from it!

A German classical enthusiast

I used to think that white people were white because they ate too much vanilla. I'm black and i saw a white person for the first time at walmart when i was 5, and i shouted "look mommy, vanilla people!"

Nina

When i was 5, i thought that you could lick your elbow....

Anon

I used to believe that girls had no nipples. I just assumed that nipples were for boys, and girls just had bags of skin on their chests.

Anon

When I was younger, I would always pass a tattoo parlor on the way to the grocery store. Secretly, I wanted to go there to get a tattoo. Except I didn't want a permanent tattoo.. yes, I thought they sold temporary tattoos !

MGM

I used to believe that darker skinned people were just cooked for to long , until I was 8 and was punched in the nose for saying it to an Indian kid and was sat down and had it explained

Donna Chisholm