i was in ballet and i got the two words tootoo and tatoo mixed up. When my dad explaned what a tatoo was i envisioned a tootoo worn by ballerinas as being held there by needles.

mannea

I used to think if a moth landed on you , you would get a mole.

karen

my sister, when she was really little, didn't understand that people were different colors and why we were and everything. So she would call her friend Leslie "chocolate colored". When my mom asked her if that meant that she was "vanilla colored" she said No Mommy! We're pink!

erin

when i was little, my mom would tell me that the beauty marks on my face was there because a fly laid their eggs on it. which made it turn into a different colour.

i then asked why the eggs dont hatch, and she said it was because the eggs all died under your skin because i didnt wash my face properly enough. after that i always thought my beauty marks was there because flys sh$t on my face. (i would always have my bedroom door closed now)

Anon

I used to wash my wrists furiously thinking that the blue viens were from a marker.

Bren

I came from a small town consisitng of all white people. When I was younger I thought ALL black people were related to each other.

Lisa

I used to believe if you stayed in water too long your skin would get really wrinkled and stay that way.

Anon

I used to believe everybody was born white and that they became black only if they spent a lot of time under the sun.

Devilz-Doll-Mekanik91

i used to believe that white skinned people sheaded skin and became black

help[help

I used to have a wart on my hand which I thought was actually a potato growing there. So I called it my potato. I never did understand why people looked at me funny when I showed them my potato. I eventually had it removed, and thought it would be used to make potato chips. I kinda missed my potato.

Potato-less

My papa always told me that I had freckles because i got to close to the cows and their poop splashed on me....

Hanna 23

I used to believe that people's skin worked like toilet-paper.You know how when you get to the end of a cheap roll of toilet-paper, it is all wrinkly and loose? Well, I thought it worked the same with skin - that you had a set number of layers which came off and when you got to the last few layers it became all wrinkly and thin! Obvious...

Bronwyn

I used to believe that if I tapped on my nose and cheeks enough that freckles would eventually pop up. I always wanted freckles as a kid.

Natasha H

I was raised as my mother was, believing that freckles were the result of flies landing on me. After switching schools to a catholic school, I shared my worldly freckle knowledge with a classmate. Not only was she completely disgusted, but proclaimed that I was enirely wrong. In fact, freckles are from angel's kisses.

Casey Dougherty

I used to believe that people who were african american were dark because they drank to much hot cocoa.

Anon

I was told by a schoolfellow once that if you scratched yourself one hundred times in the same place, you would have a permanent scar. I considered trying it--but at the time, "one hundred" seemed like such a high number that I didn't believe I could keep it up that long. (Probably I was just too chicken, though.)

Jason from Illinois

In summer I used to get lots of freckles on my face which used to annoy me so much! Until I cleverly thought up the idea that if I got so many freckles they weould all join together and i'd have the best sun tan ever!

Emily

A boy in my class once tried to tell 5 year old me that you only had 7 layers of skin and when you went through all 7, there would just be a hole. He believed that a layer of skin was a set of skin. I told him "Nuh huh. I always get blisters in my hands from the monkey bars and the skin always peels off and i still dong have holes." I was deemed the smartypants and didnt talk much for a while

britishboccoli

when I was 3 or 4 I asked my mom why people had freckles. She told me that they where stains in your skin. For years I would try to scrub away my freckles thinking that they where dirt stains.

Haley

When my friend was little, she lived in New York City where your hands get flaky if you dont use lotion, which she didn't. One day her older brother told her that she had the NATO disease and would turn into a lizard. He used her flaky hands as proof and told her that her veins were really just discoloration and that she would turn green!

Pacce