when my coloured friends daughter was much younger, she used to think that she would turn completely white like most of her friends as she gets older. She used to say things like, "When I turn white I'm going to be a popstar." Bless her, she's older now and just looks back and laughs!
A childhood belief about skin

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that when I got old my red hair would turn pink before it went white.Anon
- I used to believe that if white people would turn brown in the sun then brown people would turn white.Anon
- Drinking coffee before your 12 yrs, old will make the white in your eyes turn brown.— dawn b.
- i used to belive that before films were coloured the whole world was black and white— daniel phelps
- when i was little i thought my cat would turn into a lion when he got older.Anon
- My brother told me that I would turn into a boy when I got older. It made me cry.— Sarah