when I was 3 or 4 I asked my mom why people had freckles. She told me that they where stains in your skin. For years I would try to scrub away my freckles thinking that they where dirt stains.
A childhood belief about skin
others believed things like this
- I used To believe that if you picked your freckles you would get skin cancer— Janella
- i believed that "birthmarks" were from poop stains from your mom when you were born.— Abberatia
- I used to think people with lots of freckles were playing with crayons and drew dots on their face.— WOW
- When I was small my Grandfather told me that the reason I had freckles was from throwing pebbles in the sewer!— All Grown Up Now!
- I used to believe that if you put cow poo on your face, it would get rid of my freckles. — Col x
- I used to believe that freckles were angel kisses.Anon