I have a light brown birthmark on the outside of my left calf. For years I was convinced that was where my mother spilled coffee on me when I was a baby.
A childhood belief about skin

others believed things like this
- I used to belief that the birth mark on my dad's leg was where he spilled his coffee... EVERY morning.— Liz
- Drinking coffee before your 12 yrs, old will make the white in your eyes turn brown.— dawn b.
- I used to believe the Golden Calf produced liquid gold instead of milk.— Trisha
- Untill I was about 15 I thought that the birthmark on Mikael Gorbachov's head was actually a map of the world.— Rob , Solihull
- My mom always used to tell me that brown eggs came from brown chickens.— Taylor
- when I was little I used to think that white people had pink poop (i am brown so my poop is brown)— helena muteka