when i was little my mom told me that when i was born my hair was pink & that whenever they cut it it would turn a different color. she said they had to keep cutting it until it turned brown. not only did i believe this until middle school, i told anyone who would listen.
A childhood belief about hair

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that when I got old my red hair would turn pink before it went white.Anon
- My mum told my brother that beetroot turned your wee pink. To this day he still won't eat it— Monica
- My mom told me if you farted in bed your feet would turn brown.— Tracy
- i knew that if you ate beets your urine would turn pink and i thought if it was pink, then you could drink it.— JP
- I was born brunette with brown eyes and dark hair, i thought people with blue eyes, had water in them.Anon
- when I was little I used to think that white people had pink poop (i am brown so my poop is brown)— helena muteka