When my sister was really young, before I was born even( I think ) She had seen the show "the cosby's" and that had been the only place where she had seen dark skin. So one day while at the mall with my mom, a few people with black skin walked by and she yells "look mom! cosby's!"
A childhood belief about skin

others believed things like this
- I used to think that 'black comedy' was show like Family Matters and The Cosby Show.— Katie
- When I was around four, I thought every black man on television was Bill Cosby.— Linda
- i used to believe that white skinned people sheaded skin and became black
— help[help - In 'Call Me Maybe', I misheard 'Ripped jeans skin' as 'Rich cheese skin'. — Carly Rae Cheddar
- I used tobeleive that skin crickets would eat my fleashif i went outside after darkAnon
- When I was younger I used to believe that the darker your skin was, the dark your shadow would be.— Mary S.