When I was very young I asked my father what "mulatto" meant. He explained it was when a mixed racial couple had a child and the child turned out poka-dotted. For years I scanned crowds hoping to find a kid with spots, imagining them to look somewhat like a Jersey cow.
A childhood belief about appearance

others believed things like this
- When I was a child I used to belive that my father had forever been a 40 years old man.— Nicola
- When i was child, i used to think my father was my father christmas.— BeB's
- When i was child, i used to believe i can fly, but i had to find the "formula" for realize it— Magic. W.
- When I was a child my father warned me that if i picked my nose, my eye would fall out!— ras
- I used to believe that everytime a balloon was released , it meant that a child had recently died.— Samantha
- As a young child I thought plumbers were men who sold Plumbs!— peta