When I was 5, my older sister (who was 15) was wearing flesh colored nylons. Knowing how niave I was, she told me that she had something to show me. She then proceeded to pull on her nylons. I was so horrified by this and for years believed my sister had a stretchy skin disease!
A childhood belief about skin
others believed things like this
- My older sister told me squirrels were poisonous, and I believed her until I was 9.— Jenni
- when i was little my sister told me that when i bite my nails it would cut through my skin and i would die! — nn
- My oldest sister is 15 years my senior. I used to think that she was older than my mom.— Callie
- 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 cows mooed out of their ears-because my older sister told me they did.— ella