File this one under 'misinformed thanks to parents'... When I hit puberty and started getting hair under my arms and on my legs I thought I was just different than the other girls in my gym class (who, of course, had nice parents and had already started shaving). Its SO embarassing now that, in retrospect, I recall being asked if I was french or gay. SAD SAD SAD... Parents, take a lesson from my humiliation... tell your kids about shaving when they reach junior high.
I also remembered thinking I didn't want to shave for a while since my grandma one time had told me how older ladies these days don't have to shave since they didn't as young ladies, their hair didn't grow in as thick as young ladies today. Oh well. I still blame my parents :-)
A childhood belief about hair
others believed things like this
- i used to believe that if you shave your head you could grow any type of hair like curlyAnon
- Migets were people who were bad when they were kids and there parents didn't let them grow up.— Teresa
- I thought the lyrics to "Single Ladies" were "If you liked it, then you should've put your name on it."Anon
- I used to beleive that my dad only had a shave on Sundays. Because he got up before me on all the other days.— roy
- We were told at school by the evil dinner ladies that apple pips contained arsenic.....Anon
- I thought that the role of Lollipop ladies was to give out lollies. Shame!— Helen