My sister once asked her mother why she didn't paint her black....
A childhood belief about skin

others believed things like this
- I once asked my dad 'when you were little were you in black and white?'
So I guess I believed that lol XD— Moo - I used to believe that if you mixed red, blue, green, and yellow paint you'd get plaid!— Judith Ann
- When I was little, I thought that clouds were made by someone spraying white spray paint onto air.— Hadla
- I thought that the jetstream from planes was white paint. Which was constantly poured out from the plane.— Tore
- My mom told me that if I didn't wash my hair black widow spiders would come live in it.— grew up in Nebraska
- When I asked my mother how Elvis died, she told me that he ate too much candy. — Katie B