As a toddler, my room was painted with a mural from the book Rumble in the Jungle, and there were monkeys on the wall. I pointed out a lady who looked like one of the monkeys on my wall (something about her face shape apparently. I have no memory of this) and said MOMMY THAT LADY LOOKS LIKE A MONKEY. She was Black. My mom was mortified but I was two years old and someone had the same face shape as a painting on my wall and I just had to point it out
My sibling once said - very loudly - that they "don't like brown people", on a bus full of people of varying races, when they were like 3 or 4. Obviously they must have heard something like that somewhere, but I PROMISE you all it was NOT from our family!!! And they definitely don't still think that way!
I really do believe it was just a case of a child not understanding the words fully tbh - one of our little sisters is half Nigerian, and a boy at school once told her he didn't like her because he doesn't like the colour brown, and honestly as fucking awful as that was for her to experience, it really does just seem to be kids not actually understanding what they're saying (most of the time, anyway) (also, they made up pretty quickly and he was never intentionally nasty to her, genuinely just think he, being about 6, didn't have a clue that he was saying anything significant)
Oh and for a WAY more wholesome one, in a similar vein to the other reply here, I was possibly hyperlexic, which meant that some time shortly before I went 2½, while my mum was pregnant with my sibling, when the woman doing an ultrasound one day described my fetus sibling's head to me as "a circle", I replied with "actually, it's an oval" (I ofc do not remember this, mum however does 🤣)
Have you seen the video of that little girl saying she doesn’t want to wear something bc she doesn’t like brown, then realizing what she said and assuring her mom “but I like your hair though!”
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u/MarsMonkey88 2d ago
Toddlers don’t know what’s socially normal or not, so they say things weird all the time!