I used to believe that when someone was so old that they only had gray hair on their head left, they would die from it. My parents told me this to trick me into picking their gray hair.
A childhood belief about getting older

others believed things like this
- I used to hold my hand over my hair whenever i left the house and it was windy incase my hair blew away— lisa
- I believed that if you ate a piece of your own hair, a new strand of hair would grow on your head.— Ryo
- i was afraid to use my dad's hairbrush because i thought it would give me gray hairs.Anon
- I used to believe that if you drank coffee before you were an adult, your skin would turn gray. Anon
- I used to think that everybody's hair was black and if you had blond hair, you dyed your hair.— ~_~CoolKid93_~_
- I used to believe that you could curl your hair by twirling a strand of hair wrapped around your finger— Anonymous