My family is African-Amerian, and we lived in a place where we were the minority. One day my little sister came home from camp and asked, "When is my skin gonna turn white like the other girls?" We weren't quite sure how to answer the question.
A childhood belief about skin
others believed things like this
- My younger sister used to believe that in everybody's belly button there lived a family of squirrels.— Sophie
- I used to belief sloths lived in trees outside my childhood home. My older sister told me so.Anon
- My poop was always around the same color as my skin so I assumed white people's poop was white.— jaycee
- I used to believe that if you ate too many carrots your skin and hair would turn orange. — Mariah
- i used to believe that white skinned people sheaded skin and became black
— help[help - I used to believe that if you drank coffee before you were an adult, your skin would turn gray. Anon