When I was a little younger, I used to believe humans were able to change the color of their skin according to the color milk they drank. My mother has very fair skin with freckles and my Dad has a very dark complexion so I thought he drank chocolate milk to get his dark skin tone.
A childhood belief about skin

others believed things like this
- I used to believe if i touched a cameleon i would change the color of my skin. — Sophie
- I used to think that someone having dark-coloured skin was a result of eating too much chocolate.Anon
- When I was younger, I used to think that people with different colored skin had different color poops.— Samuel
- When I was younger I used to believe that the darker your skin was, the dark your shadow would be.— Mary S.
- Chocolate, they say, rots your teeth. I believed if you drank chocolate milk, your bones would be brown.— Dellio
- I used to believe that if you drank coffee before you were an adult, your skin would turn gray. Anon