When I was about 5 or 6 years old, I overheard my mother mention 'colored people'. I thought that she meant people who were green, blue, purple, etc. I'd never seen anyone like that, so I was looking forward to seeing one someday. Of course, in school, I had plenty of black classmates, but it never occured to me to think of them as 'colored'.
A childhood belief about skin
others believed things like this
- I used to think that little people in my penis had crayons and colored my pee yellow.— Ryan
- When I was younger, I used to think that people with different colored skin had different color poops.— Samuel
- I used to believe that the people who "colored" The Simpsons ran out of skin-toned crayons.Anon
- i used to believe that people with blue or green eyes saw that certain color— mellactica
- i used to believe that everyone had different colored pee. mine just happened to be yellow.— rick
- I used to believe that training wheels were the different colored beads on the spokes.— Samantha