Until I was at least 14, I thought that men who were going bald but still had hair around the outside of their head shaved the middle part because they liked how it looked.
A childhood belief about hair

others believed things like this
- I used to believe nun's shaved their heads and were completely bald.— Mark
- My friend convinced me that if I used a bar of soap to wash my hair instead of shampoo that I would go bald.— Michelle
- our grandfathers bald head was because our granmother pulled it out when she got mad at him— daniel copeland calif,u.s.
- I believed that if you ate a piece of your own hair, a new strand of hair would grow on your head.— Ryo
- I use to cover my head at night because I thought monsters would give me a bad hair cut while I was sleeping!— Amy
- My mom said she had eyes in the back of her head. I looked and looked, but never found them.Anon