hair

When I was very young, I asked my dad why he didn't have any hair on the back (crown) of his head. He said that when he was a kid somebody dropped a rock on his head and all his hair fell out. I believed it for years.

Matt Rouse

I believed that people who were bald were dumb, because I thought hair was connected to your brain.. so when I saw old men, I thought they were so dumb because they did not have any hair, meaning nothing connecting to their brain.
I couldn't figure out what was so funny when I told people that, because I thought I was so clever!

Jacquie

Men grew beards and mustages from drinking and smoking

Alma

My Granny once told me, to stop me sucking my hair, that all the hair you sucked made a big ball in your stomach and eventually it would kill you. She said that once a girl had died and a huge ball of hair was in her stomach, and the put it in horniman museum, near the stuffed animals.
I never sucked my hair after that, but i always looked for the ball of hair when we went to hornimans museum. Obviously it was never there, but i still believed her! Its only now that i realise how silly that sounds!

HairSucker

When I was little I thought that adult men either grew a beard, mustache, or neither, since my Dad always had the same facial hair. I prayed I'd never grow any.

Now I have a full beard.

Jay

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 wonder why my dad's hair was all gone on top. I thought his sisters pulled it out when he was little.

Klayne P.

When I was 11, I was into soul music.When I visited my aunt and cousins, I bought an afrocomb (I'm white with straight hair) and thought if I combed my hair, I would have an afro.
P.S. I watched Good Times on my visit and kept saying, "Right on!" with my fist in the air.

clevelandphil

Im 31 and had this belief until I was 24
(cause I'm an idiot!) I used to think that all afros were wigs. When I was young I never new any young person with a fro. Only adults.Being that all my relatives did not have that type of hair,I could never understand exactly how human hair could get into that shape & texture.The little boy on Seseme Street with a fro even deapened the mystery. Years went by and I saw a James Bond monvie (Live & let Die) Where a spy woman rips her afro off and throws it on a bed. Well case solved all afros were wigs, and the little boy on sesame street had to look his best and wear a wig for the camera!!!!!!!!!!!!! Since the case was closed I never gave it another thought. Until five years ago when a friend's brother grew one. My dawn of reckoning..............

Robert Sean Gibson

When I was younger, my mother told me that she had to go over and color my grandmother's hair, and that I couldn't go. I was desperate to be involved, so i got out my box of Crayolas and asked my mom, "Now can I go? I can help color grandma's hair!".

Jen

I used to believe that if you chewed on your hair you would grow worms in your tummy... of course I only believed this because my mother insisted that it was true. Until I was in college did I realize that it was just something that she made up!

Lauren

when i was little i had the worst habit of "eating" my hair. i would put it in my mouth and just chew on it. one day my dad told me that he heard on the news about a girl who died because she ended up having a huge hair ball in her stomach that blocked the path to other organs. this made complete sence to me and horrified me. throughout the next months i slowly decreased how much i "ate" my hair

Anon

My mum always told me to stop chewing my hair or else i would get a hairy chest! hee, hee! x

Kirsty

I used to believe bobby pins were named after my father.

Erin

I used to think people got armpit hair for each bad thing they did. So I thought Richard Simmons was an evil men and threw away my mum's workout tapes to save her.

Kate

I used to believe that moustaches were overgrown nostril hairs.

Anon

when i was like 6 i thought only little kids my age could have long hair. dumb....lol

candy

when my daughter was much younger she used to beleive there was nothing but hair in her head

Anon

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

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