I used to believe that cheerleaders had to cut off their hands and surgically attached pom-poms to their arms.

Stephanie

I saw a small parade while shopping with my mother when I was about 5. Marching in the parade were a couple of Planters Peanut characters and I truly believed they were real beings like people only PEANUT people with long black arms and legs and bodies shaped like peanuts. They were people but a different species living in a different country. Every time I see a picture of a Planter Peanut 'person' it makes me laugh.

Carole

When my sister and I were little, my Mom told us that it was illegal to get your ears pierced before you were six years old. Every time we would see a baby or toddler with earrings in, we would freak out and think that they were going to go to jail.

Amy

i didn't know i was adopted till i was about 7, so when my brother told me that the only reason i was a different color was because my dad had me stand naked, with my hands against a wall and my feet flat and spray painted me brown, i believed him!

Blair

I always used to wonder how it could be that people still recognised me after I'd had my hair cut

E

When I was young I used to think all men with mustaches were bad.

Catie

One of my old beliefs might sound a bit racist, but, I was young, I used to think that all black and mixed race people HAD to wear a spot on their foreheads.

Ryan

My brother used to believe that any elderly woman who wore red was red riding hood, he used to yell out to anyone of this description calling them red riding hood!

Rae

I used to think I was the prettiest girl in the world and I felt really guilty for it.

Princesa

i used to believe that black people were made from chocolate and i saw some running one day and they were sweating and so i announced very loudly "look mummy they're melting" CRINGE!

Anon

My (much) older cousins are mixed-race. I am caucasian. When I was really little, I used wonder how old I would be before I "turned brown".

Alou D.

I used to believe that men were only attracted to women with blonde hair and blue eyes and I felt I very lucky because I had blonde hair and blue eyes. The reason men married women with other colouration was because they either had bad luck marrying women they were attracted to or because they got tired of waiting around for a woman with blue eyes and blonde hair to be attracted to them in return and so the men opted into marrying someone else.
I don't have blonde hair and blue eyes anymore but rather green eyes and brown hair.

Cordelia

When I was VERY little, which was long before Eminem, I used to think that only black people could rap. My theory was that their larger lips would bounce together to help them talk so fast.

ewganhoff

I thought gay people were old men with very long beards.

Anon

Around 4th grade I got hair long enough to shove behind my ears. My mom used to yell at me about it all the time. There was a Greek girl in school who had long, thick straight black hair... and she happened to have ears that stuck out like crazy. My mom saw her and said if I kept putting my hair behind my ears they would end up like her's and I believed her! I stopped doing it until I was older and knew better.

Bridget C.

When I was younger my dad used to tell us that hiccups made you grow. I used to try and get them so I could grow taller than my parents.

Anonymous

when i used to pull faces when i was little and my mom caught me she would tell me that "if the wind blew in the wrong direction that my face would be stuck like that" i still believed it until i was about 12 and auctually thought about it! :)

Ruth, Dublin

My sister (Who is 18 now) told my mother that she had a "Chocolate Girl" In her classroom. She also said she tasted sweet. (She licked her arm)

Bijan

I used to believe all Kings were incredibly slow and all Queens were incredibly fast.

Bijan

One day when I was about 5 or so, I heard my grandma say 'That guy looks Jewish'. She was pointing at him, but I thought she was just pointing directly at his coat.

I got this idea that Jewish was a brand of some sort.
So the next day at my friends house, we were playing dress up and she asked me if I liked her crown.

I said, 'Yeah, is it made by Jewish?' right in front of her mom.

Your hair so totally looks Jewish.