hair

When I was little, my mother insisted on me having bangs. Little kids don't usually look in mirrors, so I didn't know that bangs were hair. Whenever I went to get my hair cut, I would think that they were cutting the skin on my forehead and get upset.

Jessy

My sister and I convinced my younger brother that his cow licks were made out of tradition! He believed that my parents took him to my grandmothers farm and had a cow lick his head! He had cow licks really bad when he was younger.

Buffay

I used to think that pubic hair was fur. When I was about three or so I asked my mom "why do you and my dad have fur down there?" I didn't understand it until much later.

Kate

I don't remember this, but when i was little i had really long hair. My friend told me that she asked me how i got my hair so long, and apparently i told her to go outside and put it down the drain. I was a strange young child.

Helly

When my mum was little, boys kept pulling her pigtails. It turned out there was a rumour going around that she had holy pigtails and pulling them was good luck. I suspect that one was started by an enemy!

Magz

When I was about eight I had short unruly hair. I believed that you had to be catholic to have long hair like my friend Christy. I think maybe my mother toldme that so I wouldn't want to grow my hair because it was a bush.

Karen

My dad always told me that eating black pepper would "put hair on my chest." He sure had lots of it, and since the pepper looked enough like hair seeds I had no trouble believing it. So throughout my youth I sprinkled every appropriate food quite liberally with the stuff. Well, guess what--the mirror tells me now that I might have overdone it. DAD--You didn't say anything about my back and bum!

Herr Ball

i used to think that my dad would shave in the mornings and then at night he would put them back on just to shav them off again.

Allie

when i was little my nan used to care for me before school, and she used to tie the top half of my hair back in an up-down style. there was always this curly bit that stuck right out of the side of my fringe, and seeing as i had reasonably straight hair, it confused me.
i said "whats that curly bit for?" my nan said "its just a corr flick, thats all"
but i always thought she called it a corn flake. what had curly bits got to do with kellogs cereal?

Laura Lee

when i was little wen my hair was in sunlight it had a gold tinge to it so i believed that my hair was made of gold and that i was a princess

Sara

I used to think that if i put conditioner in my hair before the shampoo my hair would fall out.

Jerry Moe the Gimp

I used to believe that hair sprouted from large holes in peoples' scalps. One time I got so mad at somebody that I threatened to pull all his hair out, so that nothing would be left but the holes where his hair used to be.

Leora

I used to hold my hand over my hair whenever i left the house and it was windy incase my hair blew away

lisa

when i was young like 7 i accidentally used conditioner before shampoo and washed my hair that way, when i realized what i had done i freaked out and thought my hair would fall out :)

lacey

I use to believe that when I lost hair that I had cancer

Anon

My Mom used to get me to rinse the shampoo out of my hair by singing "Wash that bear out of my hair," an adaptation on the song by South Pacific.
For a long time, I thought my hair got dirty because of the bear that just kept coming back!

Anon

my parents used to tell me that if I chewed on my hair, that little strands of
it would slip down my throat and make a giant hairball in my stomach, and that
I'd have to have it surgically removed. I quit sucking my hair after that!

Tara

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 parents used to have a best friend, named Jason. (And he still is. Great guy.) When my sister and I were young, aparently, he told us that his moustache was a caterpiller. Then he would wiggle it around, and say that his eye brows were caterpillers too, making them wiggle as well. Hence forth, my sister and I have always thought of him as "the caterpiller man".

Amy

When I was about 7 or so I had a nervous habit of chewing on my hair. My mom told me that if I did that I would start growing hair in my stomach and would eventually choke to death. That sure stopped me.

Tammy