hair

Up until I was seven, I used to believe that you had to be bald not to have cancer..
One day, my little sister was very sick and I don't know why, I used to think that she had cancer, so i decided to "save" her by cutting her hair...
I was really proud of me because I used to think that my little sister would feel better. When my parents discovered what I did, they started to scream at me, I was really confused because I didn't even know that what I did was wrong.
Nowaday, at every family dinner we make jokes about it and my whole family call me the evil hairdresser.

Anon

I used to think that "tease your hair" meant make fun of it

Anon

This one is slightly bizarre, but I used to think
That when you had a haircut and it had to be right below your ears, you had to bring a picture of yourself as a baby, so that they would know what length they had to cut it to, to match the shape of your face. I honestly don't know why.

Anon

I used to think that bleaching your hair meant washing your hair with toilet bleach.

Anon

When I was little I thought that dying your hair means you kill your hair.

Anon

When I was little I USED to THINK that hair grows by the ends.

Sirin

Are used to believe it was my fault I had a ‘widows peak’ Because my sister told me, when i was a baby I’d sit in my highchair and put beans in my hair

Anon

I read a book about how a woman was reluctant to take her daughters to the barber because the family was "scrimping and pinching". That made me think that scrimping and pinching had something to do with getting your hair cut.

Anon

As a child, I had unruly bushy and wavy brown hair. One of the biggest factors was my “cow lick”. Every time I heard the term, I envisioned being an infant crawling through a pasture, being licked by a cow.

Marcus

This one's a bit embarrassing. I heard someone referring to an old, bald guy as an "old coot", so I thought that a coot meant a bald man.

Anon

When I was about 4 my Mom told me we were going to the hair salon to get me bangs and I started crying hysterically.She was baffled and commented that I had had bangs before but that didn't help my gears.Finally I managed to communicate that I thought she was taking me to have a beating where I would get "bangs" on my forehead.Ouch!

Anonnymouse

I used to believe that all African American babies were born with naturally curly hair

Lori

That if i kissed a boy my hair will fall out

Kate

I used to think that if you dyed your hair you didn't have to bleach it and it will stay your desired color forever

Tyler

As a little kid,, I thought that my mom's purple hair was natural, and then i found out she dyed it

Marcia

I thought highlights and lowlights in hair were always natural instead of dye, and I never could figure out how some people would have part of their hair blonde and part of it black without any of it being brown in-between.

Kai

I used to think that pubic hair was "public" hair and it didn't make any sense because pubic hair is private, not public

Laura

I used to think if you hung out with somebody who had nice hair, your hair would become as pretty as theirs- it would change color and style and look like theirs. I also used to talk to my hair to inspire it to look like their hair, but I guess it was never inspired.
Don't worry, I don't to it anymore.

Mallory