appearance

when i was small a girl in my nusrey told me i looked like her barbee doll (still dont c the resemblence) n i was thrilled 4 the next few yrs i told ppl i was going to be a barbie doll wen i grew up then some1 told me barbee had a boyfrend (boys were grose bak then) so i decided to join the circus insted

cassy

I used to believe the world used to be black and white and everything in the world was painted because when I was little my grandpa told me the hardest part of life a long time ago was watching stop lights going from gray to gray

Anon

For a while I thought a homeless person was just someone whose house had burned down, but they still looked like everyone else and, like, wore a business suit and went to work every day. I was really scared our house would burn down and we would have to be homeless forever, even though my dad was rich. (I never made the connection that we could probably just buy another house, or at least go live with someone we knew.)

Anon

I used to believe all black people were named Fresh Prince.

Ashlyn

I used to think those propeller hats could actually make you fly.

Meghan

I used to think that if I closed my eyes I would be invisible

invisible

When I was about four years old, my mother read a story to me that dealt with children of different colors. I asked my mother what color we were, and she answered, "We're white." I replied, "I'm not white; I'm beige." My mother just about died laughing.

Anon

i used to beleive that everyone in the world had an exact copy of themselfs and someday we were meant to reunite.hmm boy i have i changed!!!

elmo

When I was four, I saw one of the day care workers put on foundation.

Because it looked so much like skin, I then thought that the foundation itself was fake skin and that you put it on to prevent your skin from falling off. So I believed that when I got older like the workers, I would have to use foundation to prevent my own skin from falling off.

Magical

I used to think that the big cranes at the construction docks were chairs my aunt would sit in, since she was so tall.

Angela

I used to believe that when you grew out of clothing that you would have to wear your parents' clothing to the store to go buy new ones since your old ones didn't fit anymore. Now, my mom never put her clothes on me to go shopping, but when I was getting too big for something I'd still get really nervous about the embarrassment of being seen in public with her gigantic clothes on.

Nyx

When I was 5 years old, our housekeeper, Maddie, missed a week of work after she suffered a severe laceration to leg by walking through a sliding glass door. When she came back, she had a huge gauze bandage on the leg with a huge, ugly brown stain that she told me was dried blood. Little scientist that I was, I deduced that black people were “black” because their blood was brown! Of course, I later learned blood turns brown after it dries, but, hey! I was 5.

Marc

For some reason when I was about 5 or 6 yrs. old, I used to think that men who where a different skin colour were only a different colour on the body parts that showed, like faces and hands, and the rest of their body was white like me. I have NO idea why I thought this!

Anon

I used to think that the heads of babies, toddlers, newborns, etc. were giant peas covered in meat but once you became a kid the pea would turn into a skull and stuff... odd belief.

Anon

my mom used to tell us that if we pulled a face and the clock struck on the hour, we'd be stuck like that forever

snappycrappy

my younger brother after his 1st day at school announced that he now knew the difference between boys and girls - boys have laces in their shoes and girls have buckles. still makes us chucklt to this day (28yrs later!!)

Anon

My mother used to tell us this rhyme: "Fat and Skinny were lying in the bed. Fat rolled over, and Skinyy was dead."

Because I was thin, this terrified me. When our cousins would sleep over, some would sleep on the floor, and some would sleep in the bed. I was always afraid to sleep when my cousins slept over because I knew for sure because they were bigger, that it was not safe.

Hayden

My father has a lot of pimples on his neck and his back for he is out in the sunshine a lot. In Vietnamese we call pimples "fly spots", which means they look similar to a small fly. My father explains to me that because he doesn't wear a shirt very often, so flies have chances to put their little poos on his back when he is sleeping. That's why I always wear a shirt to cover my back. (I'm a girl anyway.)

Ngan Tuyen

My mother took my brother and I to visit our neighbor, Miss Edna. She was a very friendly old lady who gave us candy. But, after we rang the doorbell, her adult daughter answered instead.

My brother asked my mother, "Did Miss Edna get a new head?"

He didn't realize that it was a completely different person.

Julie

Growing up, we were taught about Adam and Eve. I just assumed that Adam was black, and Eve was white. When they had a baby, it was Hispanic (at the time, I guess that seemed closest to grey). Then, if a Hispanic person had a baby with an white person, the baby would be Asian. Or, if a Hispanic person and a black person had a child, it was Indian. I had all the races all worked out.

Jenny