skin

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

When I was little, my younger sister was eating a peppermint and kept taking it out of her mouth and puttingit back in. Well her fingers got all sticky so my mom gave her a kleenex to wipe it off with. The kleenex stuck to her fingers and she thought the skin was coming off of her hands!

Jennifer B

When I was about 7 I believed black people were black because they didn't shower enough.
Well, my gradma had this cleaning lady who was black. Once she was watering the plants in the backyard and I asked her:
-- Hey (her name), why don't you water yourself now and get rid of all the dirty??

My mom and grandma were ashamed for a long time. And now I'm ashamed also!!
LOL

Witney

the moles on my face were from a lizard shitting on me when i was sleeping

kuds

When i was little around 4 my sister was watchign me and i had a permanet marker. I accidently made a line on myself and i thoguh it look liek stiches. So i ran through my house screaming that i had stiches and i didn twant them anymore.

jj

When I was eight, I read this book called My Mom The Frog. It's about a boy and his sister, and the boy's sister tells him that if you touch a wart you will turn into a frog, and the story focuses on this frog that gets into the boy's house after his mom kisses a wart on his finger, and the boy and his sister and friend think the frog is the boy's mother.

Well, since I didn't get a chance to see on the side of the book if it was labeled "fiction," I didn't know if it was fiction or not, and what if it was nonfiction?! My mom worked as a substitute teacher and I kept warning her every day, "If one of your students has a wart don't touch it or else you'll turn into a frog!" My mom and dad kept telling me that wasn't possible but I refused to believe them.

I got so freaking terrified of that book that I didn't even like frogs in general, and I would cringe whenever I heard the word "frog" (this happened when I developed a fear of moles and gerbils for a few months that same year too). My classmates thought it was great to say "frog" over and over in my face to make me wince.

The mania over this book got heavy, and my mom even took me on the Internet to research warts. It, of course, said nothing about turning into frogs upon touching one, but I still thought that was possible. It wasn't until I got to the end of the book and found out that the mother had been at the store buying wart cream the whole time, and the frog was just some random frog that got into the house. THAT was when the mania over all that ended.

Four years later, I ended up with a wart on my pinky, but no one turned into a frog over it!

And now I like frogs

I'm 23 now, but when I was a little boy I used to think that black people were black because they got too much sun tan.

Anon

When I was like 6 my mom got some black marker on her hand and she though i'd be funny to tell me she was turning black. I cried and screamed "you can't be black you're my mom, you're suppose to be white" for an hour.

Jessi

I am Mexican and my cousin is 1/2white and 1/2 mexican. I never understood how she was related to me if she was a white gurl when i am a mexican gurl.Her dad was white and her mom was mexican.

Mariah (lil clumzy)

I used to believe that deodorant stung the skin of kids too young to need it.

Anon

I used to believe that if I touched a black person I would turn black.

Anon

When I was younger my dad used to tell me as a joke (he's not racist at all) that black people had poo poo smeared across their face and thats why they were black. One day when I was about 6 an electrician came over to our house to fix something and I shouted out 'LOOK DADDY THAT MAN HAS POO POO ON HIS FACE!' I still can't get over that to this day.

Jake

I used to believe that black people were white people covered in chocolate and put in the fridge for a few hours

Haha

When I first witnessed my sister picking her acne -she was teenage- The intensity of her focus was so much I thought it must be some sort of larvae she got from high school science class , and that she was trying to get them out.

Ghostibelle

I used to believe that the skin next to you elbow was called Mustard. So, when my brother and I were bored we'd complain to my mother that "MY MUSTARD IS BROKEN!" Too funny....

ShannonE

When I was young, I thought that black people had a horrible skin affliction. I thought I would slowly turn black if I touched them, and so I avoided them like the plague until I was about 7 years old.

Anon

i used to think men could also get stretch marks....until my younger stepsister told me women only get it....

...i dont think i was a bright kid

casey malcolm

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!

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