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When I was about 6, We had only a couple of black people in our neighborhood, so when we visited another state where family members had many black friends, I thought their very light palms were some kind of an affliction, like a skin disease or an injury to their palms.

Rootie
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When i was little i used to think that a birth mark was the place on the body where you came out of the mother

bipbop
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when i was little, i used to believe that a Hawaiian tan would never fade away.

Joan
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My brother told me that vanishing cream would make my freckles disppear

Carol T.
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when I was little I heard that I was from a blackfoot. I beleived that when I had a baby it would be born with black feet and would have to wear socks to hide them.

michael
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I got a scar on my knee after learning to ride my bike, and I just couldn't leave the scartissue alone, I was scratching it all the time.
My mother explained me that I had to stop, and that the hole in my skin was growing shut when it was itching and that finally there would be no hole left on my knee if I let it itch for a long enough time without scratching.

The logic of itching = no more hole, was fine by me untill I forgot to rinse after using soap in the shower and my butt started itching A LOT!
I ran into the bathroom screaming, and intended to remain seated at the toilet cause I wanted to get as much out of there as possible before it closed permanently.

Hugo (
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freckels are kisses from the sun

Ella
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I used to believe that scars tasted like bubble gum

dani
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i used to belive that if i had a spot on my skin i would not be allowed to go outside untill its gone. I wouldnt step out the house... Most times my parents had 2 carry me out

not saying
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When my younger sister sophie was about 2 she couldn't work out why black people where a different colour than her so come to the conclusion that they where made out of chocolate, It could be embarrasing sometimes when we would walk down the street and she would point and shout "Look its a chocolate daddy" to any black man or "chocolate mummy" for woman.

Gavin James
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I'm hispanic. All my family has very light skin (like white people). Well I was the darkest (and I'm not very dark). I used to think if I ate chocolate I would get darker. Need less to say I didn't eat chocolate not even chocolate milk, but I did try to drink plenty of milk, I figured I will get lighter or stay where I was. I'm lighter now in my 20s. and I still don't eat chocolate.

R.S.
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I'm 18 and I was the only black kid in my pre-school. One day I was playing and a white girl came over and licked me. I began to cry hysterically while she tried to explain to the scolding teacher, "I thought she was made out of chocolate!" I heard that and got scared my arm was gonna melt where she licked it.
Wasn't I cute ;P )

Jaki
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The first time I seen a black person was when I was 9 on holiday in Spain. A black lady was sunbathing on the beach and I thought that she would be white underneath her bikini.

Anon
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When I was in first grade my teacher in school told us that humans have a certain number of layers of skin. What I did not remember her telling me was that skin continues to grow. I was terrified that I would go through sll my layers of skin before I got older and that I would use it all up and not have any left. I did not quite know what would of happened to me without skin but everything I thought of was scary and had more then a few nightmares
about a skinless childhood

Jimmy Hulshizer
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As a young white child, I lived in an area that was largely black in population. I truly believed, in the most innocent way that black children were made out of chocolate. Those with the darker skin were dark chocolate, and the lighter skinned children were milk-chocolate. How I longed to be a black child!

joy
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i remember the first time i realized i was different colour (around 5 y/o) then the other kids, (i'm biracial and grew up in a completely white neighbourhood)
i asked my grandmother why i was different (not know what to say) she said i was "left in the oven too long". i actually believed that for quite sometime.

Mona
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When I was a child, I saw a picture of a person covered in bugs on tv. For the longest time I believed our skin was made of millions of tiny little insects. It wasn't until my teen age years when I saw another show with a man covered in bees did I realize what I had sen as a youngster was probably something similiar. To this day though, I still get a nasty feeling when hair on my body bristles.

Ryan
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When I was small my Grandfather told me that the reason I had freckles was from throwing pebbles in the sewer!

All Grown Up Now!
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When I was a kid, I used to believe there were only 2 races: black people and white people. Because I knew I wasn't white, I thought I was black. I'm actually Persian.

Amir Talai
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when I was little mybrothers told me i was someone eles kid because I had red hair and freckles and the rest of the family had dark hair and olives skin.
I used to ask my parents 20 questions till my dad went mental at my brothers 7&14 years older than me

karen parish
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