people: appearance

I used to think only boys could have short hair. The first day of first grade I saw this kid with short hair going in the girl's bathroom and said 'hey, you can't go in there' thinking it was a boy. I felt DUMB. Of course it was a girl, and weird thing is, she ended up becoming my first best friend.

When i was about 3 i would play hide and seek with my brother and his friends, i believed that if i closed my eyes, i could not see anyone and so therefore they could not see me!

when i played hide and seek when i was younger and hid behind something like a tree, i thoguht that if i closed my eyes and couldn't see them, then they couldn't see me

When I was 5 my older sister told me that I used to be bigger than her, but they put me through the wash and I shrunk. Of course, I believed her... it made sense at the time...

when i was a child and someone made me really angry or frustrated i would take these black sun glasses that my grandmother bought me and place them tightly over my eyes and through my strawberry blonde curls. And at that exact moment i believed that no one.no one! could see me or do anything to me. I was hidden and invisible. why did the world have to prove otherwise? Sometimes, even though i know i am seen, i can put on my sunglasses let my memories drift back to the old days(though i was born in the eighties) and know that there is some kind of barrier between me the shades and you. Thanks Gramma=) love -kat

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.

My mom told me that those slap bracelets will chop off your hand if you try to put one on. Turns out she just didn't want to dish out the money to get me and my sister one.

When I was little, I used to believe strangers were always people who had LONG hair, wore shorts, tie dye shirts and a hat. I saw it on the three ninjas and I was convinced they looked like that for like 3 years haha.

I grew up in the South. I truly believed that when the adults around me referred to a "colored" person, that they were indeed colored...all the wonderful colors I could imagine as a child.

One day my stepmother said we were going to go over to a "colored" ladies house. I got so excited! I couldn't wait to see someone with all the colors of the rainbow.

When I was VERY little, which was long before Eminem, I used to think that only black people could rap. My theory was that their larger lips would bounce together to help them talk so fast.

I used to believe that there were monkeys on earth before us. Than they began to work with their hands so they transformed to humans. And if i be lazy, i would become a monkey again. I used to check if i had any hair on my body.

From quite an early age I was told by my Grandmother and Mother that the Devil lived behind any mirror and that if I looked at myself he would come out and get me. I think it was an attempt to stop me from becoming vain. It worked! To this day I still hate looking at my reflection and avoid it if I can - and I will be 61 in May!

one of my friends mums once told me that if i pulled a silly face and the wind changed direction, my face would stay that way. I was always uneasy about pulling silly faces for too long...

In my preschool, I had a friend named Katie. She had lice, and to get it all out, they shaved her head. I thought my friend Katie had turned into a little leprechaun boy! I asked her if she was, and thats why we're not friends today. :) (Currently 7th Grade)

i alwaysed wondered what i would look like when i was 17. so when i turned 17 i was stunned that there wasnt a drastic change from 16 to 17. man was i dissapointed

When I was young I used to believe that moles and freckles were caused by flies pooing on you...I used to be SO scared of a fly pooing on my face.