I used to think that when lighter people got a tan they went darker and when darker people got a tan they went lighter.
A childhood belief about skin

others believed things like this
- I used to belive that if you pushed the lighter button in a car it would tranforme it into a batmobile Anon
- When I was younger I used to believe that the darker your skin was, the dark your shadow would be.— Mary S.
- I use to believe Smog and Fog were the same thing on smog was darkerAnon
- When i was younger up untill i was like 8 or 9 i thought that famous people didnt poop only normal people!!!— kaitlin
- I used to think that "cross-eyed" meant that people had X's for eyes, like dead people in cartoons.— Tim
- I used to believe that tv people were tiny famous people that lived inside that box with a window called TV.— Miguel Horacio