When I was in elementary school, we had a lesson on how racism was wrong, and the teacher was telling us, "You should accept people whether their black, white, purple, or gold."
For the longest time I thought that there actually were purple and gold people, and I always wanted to meet one.
A childhood belief about appearance

others believed things like this
- i believe that using gold give electric shock at the time of lightning.so i didnot wear gold when rain starts.— asi18
- I used to belive that there was gold in my nose because pepole would always say that i was "diggin' for gold"!— addicted nose picker
- I used to believe that people's brains differed in colours. I always wanted purple brains for some reason.— Katrina
- I used to believe that black people were white people dipped in Chocolate. That's what my dad told me...— Steve
- when i was litte
I used to believe that white people had white blood and black people had black blood.Anon - When I was in elementary school I use to think that teacher lived at school at their desks all year long.Anon