When I was growing up in Northern BC, Canada, my father told me that Eskimos were different from Caucasians because they didn't have sweat ducts - they didn't need to sweat because where they lived it was always cold. I believed this well into my teens, when I repeated it to a friend who laughed at me. That's when I realized my parents sometimes lied.
A childhood belief about skin
others believed things like this
- my friend, up untill she was in her early 20s thought that if you drank gatorade you would sweat in colorAnon
- one of my friend's was told by his father that if you didn't turn mirrors over the reflection would run out.— pri
- Living near Canada's border without cable, I didn't know I was American. — Romania
- I used to believe my father when he told me that if I sat on cold concrete I would get hemorrhoids.Anon
- I always believed that we lived in Manchester (we didn't) but it was always the main place on the local news!— Richard M
- When I was younger, I thought Eskimos ate penguin eggsAnon