When i was like six or seven years old, I once thought that when someone said something about "black people", it referred to their hair color, not their skin. Because of that, I thought that I was black, since I had black hair. I don't even know why I thought that, since I'm actually far from it!
A childhood belief about skin
others believed things like this
- I used to think that everybody's hair was black and if you had blond hair, you dyed your hair.— ~_~CoolKid93_~_
- I thought black people were black because they drank chocolate milk. — Shelby
- My mom told me that if I didn't wash my hair black widow spiders would come live in it.— grew up in Nebraska
- When I was a kid I thought that when my parents were kids, the world was black and white and had no color...— KKM
- When i was a child, i used to believe that when people ate black beans, they became black— Mar'ia Elena
- I used to believe that black people were black because they had so many frecles that they merged together.Anon