When I was younger, I thought that since people's hair turned gray/white when they aged, then their skin would also lighten as well. Consequently, I thought that when I got old that my hair would turn gray and that my skin wuold become pale.
A childhood belief about hair

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you drank coffee before you were an adult, your skin would turn gray. Anon
- 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
- i used to believe that white skinned people sheaded skin and became black
— help[help - I used to believe that when I got old my red hair would turn pink before it went white.Anon
- i was afraid to use my dad's hairbrush because i thought it would give me gray hairs.Anon