i used to believe

Established in 2002 and now featuring 76641 beliefs!

sections

animals
at home
bad habits
body functions
body parts
death
food
grown-ups
kids
language
make-believe
media
music
nature
neighbourhood
people
religion
school
science
sex
the law
the past
the world
time
toilets
transport

appearance

Show most recent or highest rated first.

page 6 of 25

< 1 2 3 4 5  6  7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 >


One time when I was a kid, my dad said something about "colored people" and I said, "What color are they?" I pictured them as bright blue, green, yellow, or pink, and clear, like stained glass.

Jackee H.
score for this belief : 3vote this belief upvote this belief down

i used to think that coloured people had the same colour skeleton

Anon
score for this belief : 3vote this belief upvote this belief down

When I was six, my cousin told me that if I stuffed my bra the cops would come get me and take me to jail.

Juliea
score for this belief : 3.5vote this belief upvote this belief down

I used to believe that if you took a shower after a day of tanning the tan would come off in the shower

Shar
score for this belief : 2.5vote this belief upvote this belief down

When I was about 4 years old I used to believe that adults would take out their hair because they were all bald aliens and they only wore hair when I was around because it was a secret.

I believed this until the day I was in a bar with my parents and I told them I was going for a walk but I came back when I reached the corner, I found a big bald man and I hit him in the head with a toy thinking he was my father.

Noemi
score for this belief : 3.5vote this belief upvote this belief down

Im not racist at all, I was just never introduced to diversity until I got older but I Honestly thought the boogie man was a black man dressed up in all black with a stocking cap on that only came out at night.

White Girl
score for this belief : 1vote this belief upvote this belief down

I used to think that the whole world was made for me and people that i didn;t see at the time just dissappear until i see them agian

Anon
score for this belief : 2vote this belief upvote this belief down

top belief!

I used to think the height of your shadow is the height you would be when your older. LOL :)

Kaitlyn
score for this belief : 4vote this belief upvote this belief down

top belief!

When I was little, my mum and I were watching a documentary on Queen Elizabeth I. I asked Mum if queens and kings ever got out of their thrones, because I thought they never got out and I just wanted to check.

NoWonderHenryVIIIWasSoFat
score for this belief : 4vote this belief upvote this belief down

When I was little, I used to believe my Grandpa John was John Howard, because he's bald and looks like John Howard.

IhateTheRealJohnHoward
score for this belief : 2.5vote this belief upvote this belief down

Until i was about 7 years old i believed that if you were born black you would eventually turn white and if you were born white you would turn black. I remember my mum asking me when i very young what i wanted to be when i grew up and i rubbed my face and said "black! black!" i think she tried to explain but i didnt believe her and when we were asked the same question in the first grade i said i wanted to be a Janet Jackson inpersonator, since i was going to be black!

Anon
score for this belief : 3.5vote this belief upvote this belief down

I used to think that if a white person and a black person has a baby it would be mexican.

J
score for this belief : 3.5vote this belief upvote this belief down

top belief!

I used to believe when I was a kid that Abraham Lincoln was the first black president. It made sense at the time because he was on a copper penny and he had curly hair and he freed the slaves. It was quite embarrassing when I found out from a friend that I was quite mistaken.

Anon
score for this belief : 5vote this belief upvote this belief down

When I was 5 years old, our housekeeper, Maddie, missed a week of work after she suffered a severe laceration to leg by walking through a sliding glass door. When she came back, she had a huge gauze bandage on the leg with a huge, ugly brown stain that she told me was dried blood. Little scientist that I was, I deduced that black people were “black” because their blood was brown! Of course, I later learned blood turns brown after it dries, but, hey! I was 5.

Marc
score for this belief : 3vote this belief upvote this belief down

When I was seven and my mum was pregnant, I thought that because my step-dad was really tanned (he's got Spanish roots) my new little sister would be mixed race and have really curly hair like black people, and that I'd be able to plait it without having to tie it up at the ends. I was really disappointed when she didn't.

Anon
score for this belief : 3.5vote this belief upvote this belief down

I used to believe that cheerleaders had to cut off their hands and surgically attached pom-poms to their arms.

Stephanie
score for this belief : 3.5vote this belief upvote this belief down

top belief!

I saw a small parade while shopping with my mother when I was about 5. Marching in the parade were a couple of Planters Peanut characters and I truly believed they were real beings like people only PEANUT people with long black arms and legs and bodies shaped like peanuts. They were people but a different species living in a different country. Every time I see a picture of a Planter Peanut 'person' it makes me laugh.

Carole
score for this belief : 4vote this belief upvote this belief down

top belief!

When my sister and I were little, my Mom told us that it was illegal to get your ears pierced before you were six years old. Every time we would see a baby or toddler with earrings in, we would freak out and think that they were going to go to jail.

Amy
score for this belief : 4vote this belief upvote this belief down

i didn't know i was adopted till i was about 7, so when my brother told me that the only reason i was a different color was because my dad had me stand naked, with my hands against a wall and my feet flat and spray painted me brown, i believed him!

Blair
score for this belief : 3.5vote this belief upvote this belief down

I always used to wonder how it could be that people still recognised me after I'd had my hair cut

E
score for this belief : 3.5vote this belief upvote this belief down


I Used To Believe™ © 2002 - 2024 Mat Connolley, another Iteracy website.   privacy policy