I was told recently that when i was a wee little girlie [about 6] i tried to rub the 'dirt' off of a black friends skin.How stupid.
A childhood belief about skin

others believed things like this
- I thought until fairly recently that bacon came from the skin of a pig and that's why it was so thin— Nate
- When I was little my dad told me that if you drank too much coffee it would make your skin turn black. Anon
- i used to believe that black wood ear
came from the skin of the bats— JULIE - I used to believe that black olives were made out of whale skin.— Troyson
- i used to believe that white skinned people sheaded skin and became black
— help[help - In 'Call Me Maybe', I misheard 'Ripped jeans skin' as 'Rich cheese skin'. — Carly Rae Cheddar