I used to believe that kids with dark skin were just extra dirty and needed to be scrubbed better.
A childhood belief about skin

others believed things like this
- I used tobeleive that skin crickets would eat my fleashif i went outside after darkAnon
- When I was younger I used to believe that the darker your skin was, the dark your shadow would be.— Mary S.
- I used to think that someone having dark-coloured skin was a result of eating too much chocolate.Anon
- when i was younger i thought ac/dc's dirty deeds (done dirt cheap), was dirty knees and the thunder cheeks.— S
- a friend thought that the song "dirty deeds done dirt cheap" was saying "dirty deeds dunderchief"— dubs
- In 'Call Me Maybe', I misheard 'Ripped jeans skin' as 'Rich cheese skin'. — Carly Rae Cheddar