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When I was 11, I was into soul music.When I visited my aunt and cousins, I bought an afrocomb (I'm white with straight hair) and thought if I combed my hair, I would have an afro.
P.S. I watched Good Times on my visit and kept saying, "Right on!" with my fist in the air.

clevelandphil

my mum used to tell my sister and i that if we went to be with wet hair we'd get lockjaw. i'm still not quite sure what lockjaw is, but i stopped believing her when i was about 15. i think my sister still refuses to wash her hair before going to bed...

amanda

My mother always told me that the reason my grandfather was bald was because he was scalped by "Injuns" (Indians). At 17, I still don't know what I believe because my uncle is bald the same way my grandfather was, and supposively, he was with him!

Confused Pocahontas

I used to think that all people who had a beard where bad and wanted to hurt me. This didn't help conscidering my next door neighbour and several uncles had them

Captain Crabs

When our family was at the dinner table one day I was chewing my hair, a constant habit, and my dad said "I wonder where all those little pieces of hair in your belly go?" and I stopped chewing my hair after that because I thought I had pieces of hair in my stomach and flowing through my viens.

Allie

My sister always told me that if you went to bed with wet hair you'd get a head-cold, and I believed her

Looopeeelisa

when i was 8 i saw a guy with a shaved head and i thought it looked pretty damn cool. so i said not knowing that it meant something else "i wanna be a skinhead when i grow up!" if you know me now youd be VERY surprised. (i run an anti-nazi anti-racist group) hahaah

Owen Ramone

As a child my great-uncle always told me that he & my mother were walking in a garden & found me in behind a cabbage plant. All this because I was the only kid with red hair...years later the Cabbage Patch Kids came out. He also told me that my freckles came from standing behind the screen door when the sun was shining through. By the way, Great-Uncle Georgie also had red hair;)

Diane

i used to believe that by chewing on my hair i would someday have a hairball in my stomach that was big enough to make me explode. i can thank my aunt for that one.

jess

When I was little, my best friend told me that if you put too much conditioner in my hair, you would go bald. We went to her brother's school, and she pointed out this bald guy, saying that he used to much conditioner. One time when I went to take a shower, I freaked out when my mom put water in the conditioner, thinking there was to much, but she told me there was no way to become bald from too much shampoo. I have thick hair now, so that definitely can't be true!

crewsgurl

When I was a young boy, I used to yank the hair out of the barbie dolls of the girl next door. Until I was about 7 years old, I thought people had the same dots on their heads to hold their hair in as barbie dolls do.

Anon

I used to believe that old people got grey hair because at the base of every hair follicle was a can of paint. As the hair grew, it passed through the can of "hair colored" paint. When you get old, the paint runs out and your hair grows in grey or white...

Kelly Colleen

When I was about 3, I saw a picture of my mom with really short hair. My aunt said, "Look at how short your mom's hair was! That was when she was pregnant!" For years I thought that all women with short hair were pregnant, and that being pregnant meant having short hair!

Anon

My Mum always made me wash my hair after I got it cut. She told me that it bled after a haircut so I should wash it straight away! I now realise it was so my loose hair would not go all over her couch!

Anon

my cousin once asked to a man whith lots of hair in his chest, "are you an animal?"

mina