I thought that a birthmark was your date of birth stamped on your skin when you were born, like an "approved" stamp and everyone had one. When my mom told me I had a tiny one on my back, I spent hours looking in the mirror trying to find this stamp!
A childhood belief about skin

others believed things like this
- When I was little, I thought that you had to marry someone who was born on the same date as you.— Lauren
- I believed that if I swallowed my phlegm I would die. I spent hours spitting it out into the toilet.— chunky munky
- I used to think that if you didn't have a birth mark you hadn't been born.— Kim
- In kindergarden my friend told me that there were 24 hours in the day and 15 hours in the night.— Cari
- Untill I was about 15 I thought that the birthmark on Mikael Gorbachov's head was actually a map of the world.— Rob , Solihull
- pizza hut made their pizzas in a tiny hut out back of the store
Anon