I used to believe that all body hair consisted of dead nerve-endings. Nerves growing until they pushed through your skin, I guess. I continued this belief through high school until a fellow student set me straight in AP Biology.
A childhood belief about hair
others believed things like this
- I used to think making straight A's in school was literally writing A's straight. Anon
- My mom says that when she was growing up, she thought that her belly button was where her skin came together.— Dana
- I generally believed in happy endings!— Claire
- I used to believe that the sky was full of dead people and I would see them if I went high enough— Maria
- I used to believe that if you ate too many carrots your skin and hair would turn orange. — Mariah
- I used to believe that if I ate the skin on the roasted chicken I would have curly hair.Anon