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me my cousin and my brother used t picked n my younger girl cousin because she had loads of freckels and my auntie used to shout at us and say to her that they were fairy kisses and that only special people got them. and she still beliefs itow and shes 13

linzi

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

Anon

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 a little girl we had a dark skinned girl in our school who was unbelievably cool. I really admired her and wanted to be like here. I would always pray every night and ask God if he could make me more like her. When that summer I got a lot of freckles I went into this happy tantrum thinking I was turning into my heroin...

N.W.,the Netherlands

I used to believe that eating chocolates will make the skin become brown.

Godzilla

Ok , I wasnt wure where to put this but, when i was young mabey 5 or 6 i used to think that some african american people would grow up and turn white.

ashamed to say

I used to believe that Tan people Counldn't get cold.

becca

I use to believe that black people were just people who go to the beach alot.

Xambonie

I used to beleive that itching was caused by tiny little people running around on my skin. Now I find it hard to believe this until until I was about 10 years old.

Short Stuf

my sister in her childish innocence studied an african american man waiting behind my mother in line at the local market near our house. she couldn't have been more than 5 or so squirming in her seat in the shopping cart when she couldn't wait any longer. she asked the man "when you take a bath how do you know when you're clean?" making the connection that he couldn't see dirt against his dark skin like she could. the man just laughed at her honesty and said "when the water turns brown i know i'm clean" while my mom turned ten shades of red in embarrassment.

jirkstore

When I was little, I asked my mother why some people were dark brown while I was sort of pink. She said it was because they had something in their skin (like what makes us tan) that made them darker. I was very surprised in the my school's locker room to find that my classmates were brown all over and not sporting a dramatic tan line.

Laurie

When I was a little kid, I was afraid of band-aids because I thought they would tear my skin off.

Sarah Libby

When I was probably 4 or so my stepdad's younger adopted brother told me that if I touched a black person that the color would rub off on me. This made me terrified and I didn't want to touch anyone with darker skin than mine. He even supported this lie by saying that's why black people have light colored palms, they rubbed all the color off. It wasn't until I was almost in High School before I finally realized this was all a lie!!

Anon

When I was ten I had about a dozen warts on one of my arms and another one on my leg. Anyway, I can remember thinking that warts are caused when blowflies bite you. I also thought that the name of those tiny tumours which are caused by Human papillomavirus (HPV) was spelt 'worts'.

Warthog

when i was maybe 12-13 i belived that if i picked a scab and put silly putty on the scab, i would turn the colour of the silly putty. i always wanted to be blue. so i did it one day, and taped silly putty to myself for at least a week. sadly i am not blue!

carl chapman

I used to belief that 'black people' were made of chocolate.

Anon

I use to beleve that people who where black, was people who had been in the sun to much,so they get sunburn. That was why they where black.

elise

I believed that if a white person touched a black person (or vice versa), they both would switch skin colors.

Anon

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

Anon

I used to believe that if I touched a black person the color would rub off on me.

Sande