When my sister and I were little my dad had a white spot on his beard. When we would ask him what it was he would tell us he spilt milk on it. We believed him until we were 11 and one of our friends old us it was because he was old. We were devastated!!
A childhood belief about getting older

others believed things like this
- that black women breastfed chocolate milk instead of white milkAnon
- When we were little my sister thought if you mixed cow’s milk and water you’d get goat’s milkAnon
- I used to believe that brown cows gave chocolate milk, and that white cows gave white milk.— James
- I used to believe chocolate milk came from brown cows and regular milk came from black and white cowsAnon
- i used to think chocolate milk came from brown cows and normal milk came from white cows Anon
- I convinced my sister that chocolate milk was made out of Keebler cookie elves, she believed me for a month— Rainbow Steel