skin

When I was about 6, We had only a couple of black people in our neighborhood, so when we visited another state where family members had many black friends, I thought their very light palms were some kind of an affliction, like a skin disease or an injury to their palms.

Rootie

When i was little i used to think that a birth mark was the place on the body where you came out of the mother

bipbop

when i was little, i used to believe that a Hawaiian tan would never fade away.

Joan

My brother told me that vanishing cream would make my freckles disppear

Carol T.

when I was little I heard that I was from a blackfoot. I beleived that when I had a baby it would be born with black feet and would have to wear socks to hide them.

michael

freckels are kisses from the sun

Ella

I used to believe that scars tasted like bubble gum

dani

i used to belive that if i had a spot on my skin i would not be allowed to go outside untill its gone. I wouldnt step out the house... Most times my parents had 2 carry me out

not saying

I'm hispanic. All my family has very light skin (like white people). Well I was the darkest (and I'm not very dark). I used to think if I ate chocolate I would get darker. Need less to say I didn't eat chocolate not even chocolate milk, but I did try to drink plenty of milk, I figured I will get lighter or stay where I was. I'm lighter now in my 20s. and I still don't eat chocolate.

R.S.

The first time I seen a black person was when I was 9 on holiday in Spain. A black lady was sunbathing on the beach and I thought that she would be white underneath her bikini.

Anon

When I was in first grade my teacher in school told us that humans have a certain number of layers of skin. What I did not remember her telling me was that skin continues to grow. I was terrified that I would go through sll my layers of skin before I got older and that I would use it all up and not have any left. I did not quite know what would of happened to me without skin but everything I thought of was scary and had more then a few nightmares
about a skinless childhood

Jimmy Hulshizer

As a young white child, I lived in an area that was largely black in population. I truly believed, in the most innocent way that black children were made out of chocolate. Those with the darker skin were dark chocolate, and the lighter skinned children were milk-chocolate. How I longed to be a black child!

joy

i remember the first time i realized i was different colour (around 5 y/o) then the other kids, (i'm biracial and grew up in a completely white neighbourhood)
i asked my grandmother why i was different (not know what to say) she said i was "left in the oven too long". i actually believed that for quite sometime.

Mona

When I was a child, I saw a picture of a person covered in bugs on tv. For the longest time I believed our skin was made of millions of tiny little insects. It wasn't until my teen age years when I saw another show with a man covered in bees did I realize what I had sen as a youngster was probably something similiar. To this day though, I still get a nasty feeling when hair on my body bristles.

Ryan

When I was small my Grandfather told me that the reason I had freckles was from throwing pebbles in the sewer!

All Grown Up Now!

When I was a kid, I used to believe there were only 2 races: black people and white people. Because I knew I wasn't white, I thought I was black. I'm actually Persian.

Amir Talai

when I was little mybrothers told me i was someone eles kid because I had red hair and freckles and the rest of the family had dark hair and olives skin.
I used to ask my parents 20 questions till my dad went mental at my brothers 7&14 years older than me

karen parish