I had never heard the term "colored" used to describe a person until I ran across a reference to "a little colored girl" in a children's book I was reading when I was about 7 or 8 years old. I assumed it meant she was rainbow-colored - and I thought "How cool! There are people that are all different colors?!"
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 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
- For years I heard the word "pedophile" and thought it meant a pedicurist's tool.— Lauren