I used to think that pincurls were a Catholic hairstyle, as all the catholic women in the neighborhood had them and my mother who was jewish wore a long braid down her back, and her jewish friends had short hair cuts.
A childhood belief about hair

others believed things like this
- I grew up Jewish. Until I was about 10, I believed that everyone who wasn't Jewish was Catholic.— Philm35
- Since Germans speak German, I thought Jewish people spoke Jewish.— Lori
- I used to think that jewish men wore "kippots" or "yarmulkes" to cover their bald spots..— Charlotte
- My mother, the good Catholic, thought that Jesus, being a string bean (supreme being) was really skinny.— Mark D
- When I was little, I thought dying your hair would give you the color AND hairstyle displayed on the box. Anon
- I used to belief that the Muslim women who wore their garment wore it because they were bald.Anon