When my mother came home from work (in the 1950,s) she used to talk about all the 'coloured' people who were coming from the Caribbean to work at her place. I thought she meant they were red, green, purple, blue etc. and was dying to meet these people who were all the colours of the rainbow. Fortunately today there is no confusion.
A childhood belief about appearance
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that people's brains differed in colours. I always wanted purple brains for some reason.— Katrina
- i used to believe that people with blue or green eyes saw that certain color— mellactica
- I used to belive there were people under the traffic lights, otherwise they wouldn't work...Anon
- My uncle once said that elves were really badchildren made to work in santa's work shop— Some guy
- i used to believe that if i didn't work at school, i would have donkey ears, so now i work hard !!!— denis
- Someone told me People and fish went to the same place.I thought they meant humans get flushed— MrK