When I was probably 4 or so my stepdad's younger adopted brother told me that if I touched a black person that the color would rub off on me. This made me terrified and I didn't want to touch anyone with darker skin than mine. He even supported this lie by saying that's why black people have light colored palms, they rubbed all the color off. It wasn't until I was almost in High School before I finally realized this was all a lie!!
A childhood belief about skin
others believed things like this
- When I was younger, I used to think that people with different colored skin had different color poops.— Samuel
- I used to believe if i touched a cameleon i would change the color of my skin. — Sophie
- I used to believe that before color television, people only saw in black an white.— CD
- I used to think that everything was once in black and white untill they invented color tv.Anon
- I used to think that black and white TV and movies had originally been in color, but had faded with age.
— Beth - I used to believe that before color television the real world was in black and white. — Chris