One of my old beliefs might sound a bit racist, but, I was young, I used to think that all black and mixed race people HAD to wear a spot on their foreheads.
A childhood belief about appearance

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that a racist is something like a person who loves to race on the racetrack.Anon
- When I was young I thought that a parking spot was a spot like a polka dot and not a space for a car.— Mina Tova
- I used to believe that the red dot on Indian people's foreheads meant that they had psychic powers.— Mark
- I used to think Indian women had scabs on their foreheads, but it was bindi!— Emily
- when there is a spot where the sun only shines between 2 clowds god was takeing dead people up to heaven.— manda
- I got the 1990s and 1900s mixed up, so I thought people wore that fancy old-fashioned garb in the 1990's.Anon