Until I was about 12 I used to believe that girls could get hairballs and choke from sucking on their hair.
A childhood belief about hair

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that hair was only for men, and girls wore wigsAnon
- I thought when you chew gum and you swallot it you would choke and die o_o— Courtney
- I used to think that everybody's hair was black and if you had blond hair, you dyed your hair.— ~_~CoolKid93_~_
- My mother told me that if I kept sucking my thumb I would grow another one out the side of the first one.Anon
- My mother told me when i was 5 that Santa wouldn't come if i kept sucking my thumb. — Traumatized
- When I was younger, I would believe that vacuum cleaners were capable of sucking up humans.Anon