hair

I couldn't have been older than six when I overheard my mother debating at the hair salon whether to have them give my little sister bangs. I imagined this entailed banging her forehead until great grey lumps emerged from it. Of course I was against the idea.

Walter

I used to think that my hairs were living. I treated them like my friends. I only had 5 hairs which I named Joe, Darren, John, Sam, and Squiggle. When I realized one day they were gone, my mom told me that they weren't living. (I was 8)

John Doe

My dad was a very hairy guy and when my sister was very little she asked my mom and I in a very serious tone, what animal did daddy get his "fur" from? I still get a chuckle out of it.

Dawn

My brother thought that the hair above your eyes were your eyeBROWNS. Our whole family has brown hair; he'd never seen anything different.

emily

You may know, that in Britain, soldiers wear bearskin hats at ceremonial occasions.
Up to when I was about 7 I believed that the army only recruited people with black hair and that they then formed it into this shape

Triggerhappy

When I was younger my mom used to tell me that if I went to bed with wet hair after a shower my brain would rust.

Anon

When my mother would find a tangle while brushing my hair, she would exclaim, "You have a rat in your hair!" She would then grab a nearby tissue, act as if she was wrapping the "rat" up inside it, then stuff it between the cushions of the couch. When I asked her if the rats in the couch would ever escape, she assured me that our cat would tend to them later.

Evan

When I was a little kid, my dad's beard had hairs that were several shades of brown, as well as some dark blond. I couldn't figure out what color it really was and somehow decided that it was green. Whenever we drew pictures of our families in kindergarten, I would always draw my dad with a green beard.

Anon

When I was little, I believed the tangles in your hair were called Peeps and when my mom brushed my hair she would tell me she could see all the Peeps picking up there furniture and moving out of my hair. Now, looking back on it, I'm kinda afraid that was her way of telling me I had lice.

Anna

when i was little i thought that when i went swimming and my hair pated down i thought that it ment that my hair was growing super fast and i wouldnt go into the water for a while cause i thought that since girls had long hair that if i let my hair grow to long then id become a girl and my brothers were cruel anough to play along with this silly little thing

nk

Up until I was about 15 I believed that my Grandfather's hair was bleached white by acid rain. I still can't go out in the rain without feeling paranoid (I have dark brown hair, and I'd like to keep it that way).

Danny

When i was little, my grandpa told me that his hair fell out because when he was a little boy he put curlers in his hair and made them too tight.

Sassy Nassy

My mom used to tell me when I was in preschool that if you chewed your hair that it would turn into worms. So I stopped doing it, and every time I would see other kids doing it, I would laugh to myself and think...wow that's gonna be gross.

Veronica

My mom(and best friend forever) used to tell me that if I kept sucking on my hair i would get worms in my stomach... dont ask...

kimi

I used to think that jewish men wore "kippots" or "yarmulkes" to cover their bald spots..

Charlotte

When I was little I used to think that my hair could feel. I remember having long arguments about it with my sister.

Molly

I used to take my bath with my older sister. Our favourite game was to pretend to shave ourselves with soap and our father's razor blade, the security cap on of course. Once, I tried the blades on my arm without the cap, but my sister got so scared that I could do it again and injure myself, that she told me thtat if I shaved my hair once again, it would grow very long and I would turn into a beast. And my mother confirmed. Scary, all the more that I started to feel bumps on my forehead, and thought there was horns growing...

Pierre