I am ashamed to admit this, but when I was little, I used to think that if you touched a black person, the color on their skin would rub off.
A childhood belief about skin

others believed things like this
- I used to believe if i touched a cameleon i would change the color of my skin. — Sophie
- When I was younger, I used to think that people with different colored skin had different color poops.— Samuel
- My visual representation of GOD was Mr Clean wearing a white robe... but his skin was a green/yellowish color.— Ryan Williams
- When I was 4 or so I believed if you touched a dead person you'd die too.— anonymous
- I used to think that if a white person and a black person has a baby it would be mexican.— J
- i used to believe that black wood ear
came from the skin of the bats— JULIE