hair

I thought that only men had hair under their arms, and that women didn't. Kind of like how only men can grow beards- same thing. I was a teenager when my mom told me that women have armpit hair- they just shave it off. It took me awhile to believe it. I'm a male, by the way.

Paul

I used to think a mustache grew out of your nose hairs. I tried to let mine grow, but it didn't work.

Barry

My dad was a very hairy guy and when my sister was very little she asked my mom and I in a very serious tone, what animal did daddy get his "fur" from? I still get a chuckle out of it.

Dawn

I never knew that hair grew in areas besides your head, legs, and arms.
One day, as I'm on the toilet I notice hair growing down there. Not only did it scare me, I thought I was the only one in the world who had that problem.

Anon

Until I was about 12 years old, I use to think that the reason old people were hard of hearing because they had hair growing out of their ears. I thought the hairs coming out made it harder to hear things.

AuTuMn

when i was little my mom told me that when i was born my hair was pink & that whenever they cut it it would turn a different color. she said they had to keep cutting it until it turned brown. not only did i believe this until middle school, i told anyone who would listen.

michelle

I was told and actually believed that if my fringe hair covers my eyebrows, my eyebrows hair will drop and i would become eyebrowless.

Anon

I used to have a bad habit of sucking on my hair and I guess my mom got fed up with it and told me that my great aunt had done that and they had to surgically remove the hair ball from her stomach.

Anon

I used to think that "extra body" shampoo meant you could use the runoff suds to clean your body.

Christy

I used to believe that more hair grew out of the tips of your hair, not your head. i found out when i was 13 that it doesn't. my friend who told me still teases me about it.

Lily

i used to believe that "2-in-1" shampoo, which is actually conditioning shampoo, meant it was for washing your hair and your body. I tried that once and it gave me a rash, so for a long time after that I would tell my mom while shopping that I can't use 2-in-1 shampoo.
I still hate conditioning shampoo however... because it doesn't work as well as separate shampoo and conditioner ;) lol

NotRlyAretia

When I was 8 or 9 my grandmother told me if I wore a baseball cap (which I was doing all summer), I would lose all my hair. I like that baseball cap so much I took my chances (and still have most of my hair).

Andrea

I hated having a bath when I was little so to make everyone think I'd had one I used to just wet my hair with water. My Mum foiled my cunning plan but didn't let on. In the park the next day she casually mentioned how bad it was for the hair when people only wet it with water and didn't wash it properly. Well every bath time after that I remembered those words and bathed thoroughly (I wanted hair like Rapunzels). I beleived that myth until I was 14. Seems my Mum was more cunning than me!

Izzy

When a boy gets a haircut, some of the hair falls into the collar of his shirt. If he doesn't take a shower within a certain amount of time after the haircut, he will be plagued with chest hair when he becomes a man.

MDC

When I was little I used to believe that the reason old ladies had blue or purple hair was because it grew that way. I don't think my mum has ever laughed as hard as the day I adamantly told her Aunty Alice's hair grew purple and she revealed it was because it was dyed.

Renee Senogles

My little 4 year old niece believes that cats come into her bedroom at night, chew some gum and stick it into her hair, which is why she always has knots in it, poor baby

Nan

when i was little, i belived that your brain was the part of your body that was growing the hair on your head and not your scalp.

gerkie

When I was young all the barbers (male hairdressers) would only cut adults hair on Saturdays. I therefore worked out that on Saturdays all the dads went to get there pubic hair cut.

Derek

When I was younger, I had a bad habbit of chewing on my hair. Then my dad told me that if I kept doing that, my hair would turn green. Of course, I believed him. So everytime I saw one of my friends sucking on her hair, I would freak out and yell "DONT DO THAT YOUR HAIR WILL TURN GREEEN!" I was so cute. Haha.

Ashley

I used to watch bodybuilding competitions on TV. I used to believe that the bodybuilders were hairless because their huge muscles had grown up and over their body hair.

Dan