When my son was in Kindergarten he suddenly turned into Howard Huges - washing his hands so frequently that they became raw and chaffed. I asked him about it and he wouldn't give me a good reason for doing it so I put a limit on hand washing. He then started wearing his leather baseball gloves night and day - which was weird but I allowed it at home.
About a year later he finally confessed that a librarian at his former school told his class about a girl who often chewed on her hair. Because the girl swallowed some hair in the process, it created a massive hairball in her stomach and killed her. My son then became terrified that if he swallowed even one single hair (human, cat, stuffed animal, whatever) that he would die.
A childhood belief about hair
others believed things like this
- I used to think that bleaching your hair meant washing your hair with toilet bleach.Anon
- I was told that if you chew your hair you end up with a hairball in your stomach and DIE!!!!!— Cat
- 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 used to think that everybody's hair was black and if you had blond hair, you dyed your hair.— ~_~CoolKid93_~_
- I use to cover my head at night because I thought monsters would give me a bad hair cut while I was sleeping!— Amy
- I thought Buckwheat from "The Little Rascals" (1994) was a girl because he had long hair!— Molly