The first time I ever got my hair cut I was 5 years old. My sister (who was a year older than me) had already had that experience the previous year and told me that getting a haircut hurt. I believed her and cried the entire time I was in the chair. Turns out she was lying.
A childhood belief about hair

others believed things like this
- after my mom told me I had strawberry blonde hair - I used to look for the strawberries after I got a haircut— pearpod
- I thought that 1983 went on for 3 years - had to ask my sister who decided how long a year lasted.— Sally
- I used to believe that if I cut my dolls hair it would grow back just like mine did after a haircut. — diamond girl
- Abba - Happy New Year
"Kangaroo year,
Kangaroo year..."— Santa Puncher - i thought I got one year older when my family sang the birthday song.— I am the ghost
- My older sister told me squirrels were poisonous, and I believed her until I was 9.— Jenni