I used to think that when my mom said "Bare skin" she meant "hair as a bear" skin.
A childhood belief about skin

others believed things like this
- In 'Call Me Maybe', I misheard 'Ripped jeans skin' as 'Rich cheese skin'. — Carly Rae Cheddar
- I used to believe that if you ate too many carrots your skin and hair would turn orange. — Mariah
- I used to believe that if I ate the skin on the roasted chicken I would have curly hair.Anon
- I used to believe that showing my bare arms meant that I was naked, so I never wore short sleeves as a kid. Anon
- I used to think that when you got like a twitching eye or something, it was little bugs under my skin.Anon
- i used to believe that black wood ear
came from the skin of the bats— JULIE