i used to think that everyone was made in an oven. so i thought that coloured people got left in the oven for too long and burned hence why they were black.
A childhood belief about skin

others believed things like this
- I used to wonder why the oven didn't set food on fire!— danielle
- I used to think that you could get a tan if you turned the oven on, opened the door and stood in front of it.Anon
- I used to believe you could pour lemonade in a pan, put it in the oven and make lemonade cake.— wumpmugg
- i used to belive that before films were coloured the whole world was black and white— daniel phelps
- i used to think that coloured people had the same colour skeletonAnon
- Burned fish fingers ment the fish was from the black sea.Anon