I used to believe that darker skinned people were just cooked for to long , until I was 8 and was punched in the nose for saying it to an Indian kid and was sat down and had it explained
A childhood belief about skin

others believed things like this
- i used to believe that white skinned people sheaded skin and became black
— help[help - I used to believe that the red dot on Indian people's foreheads meant that they had psychic powers.— Mark
- I used to believe moustaches were just really long nose hair — RaoulDuke
- I used to believe that mustaches were grown from really long nose hairs.Anon
- When I was younger, I used to think that moustaches were just very long nose hairs.— Mike
- When I was younger I used to believe that the darker your skin was, the dark your shadow would be.— Mary S.