When I was little, my parents once told me that I caused the bald spot on my dad's head. They said that I rubbed the hair off with my chin when I would ride up on his shoulders.
It would be years before it even dawned on me that they had been pulling my leg.
A childhood belief about hair
others believed things like this
- My friend convinced me that if I used a bar of soap to wash my hair instead of shampoo that I would go bald.— Michelle
- our grandfathers bald head was because our granmother pulled it out when she got mad at him— daniel copeland calif,u.s.
- I believed that if you ate a piece of your own hair, a new strand of hair would grow on your head.— Ryo
- My parents said that gnomes tied knots in my hair while I was sleeping. I had insomnia for years.— Daria
- When I was young I thought that a parking spot was a spot like a polka dot and not a space for a car.— Mina Tova
- I used to believe that my head was filled with hair waiting to grow.— Poppy