When I was little, I thought Lena Horne was my grandmother's sister because they looked similar. I also thought my great-grandfather was Jackie Wilson because he looked EXACTLY like him. I assumed my family never told us who he really was because they didn't want us kids to think he was really popular and had money.

rls

When I was in Kindergarten at school, I remember once talking to a boy classmate and he introduced me to his friend who was a girl. Somehow she just didn't look like a girl or a boy at all to me, and for a couple of weeks I wondered if there were Boys, Girls, and Neither.

Emily

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

Until i was about 7 years old i believed that if you were born black you would eventually turn white and if you were born white you would turn black. I remember my mum asking me when i very young what i wanted to be when i grew up and i rubbed my face and said "black! black!" i think she tried to explain but i didnt believe her and when we were asked the same question in the first grade i said i wanted to be a Janet Jackson inpersonator, since i was going to be black!

Anon

In kindergarten, a boy I did not know well had an oral retainer for his upper teeth. He was twiddling it around in his mouth one day and since it was flesh colored, I thought that he had a hole in his mouth that lead to his brain and that the retainer was actually like a man-hole cover. I was very frightened of him and never spoke to him. I did not learn about orthodontics until middle school.

Tree

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

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 my brother and I were really chubby when we were little. Food and love in our family were the same thing.

I remember going to kindergarten and for the longest time feeling sorry for the average weight children because I thought their parents didn't love them. I called them, "the poor stick children."

LJC

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

i used to think that coloured people had the same colour skeleton

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

When I made faces at my sisters, my parents always reminded me that if I did that too much my face would stay that way!! I was horrified, but then I thought of a genius idea. I always wanted eyes that would turn upwards at the end, so I stayed in front of the mirror, holding my eyes that way, for almost an hour. No, it didn't work.

Wannabe

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

There was a City councilman in Philadelphia PA
named Thatcher Longstretch who was known for wearing argyle socks. As a kid I assumed that argyle was what they were made from.

Brian

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

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 if you had glasses, you didnt need braces and vice versa. and since braces are only temporal and glasses arent, i always wanted braces - it would mean i would not need glasses any more, right?

Jelly

Whe I was about 5 or 6 I was told that Real CowBoys didnt wear underwear. So when me and my friends were playing Cow boys and Indians I would go out with NO underwear on.. One day I fell over and hurt my knee. I rushed in doors crying and my mum said she would take a look and pulled my jeans down, to here surprise she found I wasnt wearing under wear.. She told me that it was wrong and I should wear some as it protected my jeans.. Not wishing to make my jeans dirty I thought id be doubly protected and wear 2 pairs of briefs.. This was fine untill I needed to pee . I wet my self one time as I was bursting to go and could get my dick out fast enough.

Davey. UK

When I was a kid, people always used to tell me how skinny I was, so whenever I used to get into an elevator, I would jump over the crack between the elevator and the floor because I was afraid that I would fall in.

J