My mother is an artist and one day she told me she was going to paint me after school. I was very excited until she showed me her canvas and I realised she had not meant to actually paint my face!! I was only 5 ....ok!
A childhood belief about family

others believed things like this
- My sister once asked her mother why she didn't paint her black....Anon
- I used to believe that if you mixed red, blue, green, and yellow paint you'd get plaid!— Judith Ann
- When I was little, I thought that clouds were made by someone spraying white spray paint onto air.— Hadla
- I thought that the jetstream from planes was white paint. Which was constantly poured out from the plane.— Tore
- When I was in elementary school nuns cam to our school. I thought that 'nun' meant they had no religion.Anon
- I used to think a con artist was someone who painted pictures in prison.— Brandon Campbell