When I was about 5 my older sister told me that if a white person and a black person had babies they would be piebald (like my pet mice). My brother's best friend had parents of different colours and I spent a lot of time trying to see under his clothes where the patches of other colours must have been!
A childhood belief about skin
others believed things like this
- I used to think that if a white person and a black person has a baby it would be mexican.— J
- i used to believe everyone saw different colours but just described the same.Anon
- I thought that the Chewit wrappers were different flavours as they were different colours like the sweets— Helen
- The first time I saw a black person (I was about 3), I thought he was made of chocolate.— Ronne
- I used to believe that people's brains differed in colours. I always wanted purple brains for some reason.— Katrina
- i used to believe that when a person moved away, they switched houses with the person that bought their house— alli