I legit thought girls only used chemicals to straighten hair. The whole concept of weave never even crossed my mind til I saw it for myself.
To expand on the concept of black female hair
I didn't realize that black women naturally had the same hair texture as black men until I was damn near in my 20s
As a kid when I watched movies or looked at pictures from the 70s I thought the women were altering their straight hair in order to achieve an afro
You can't blame me though, I was born in 88 raised in the 90s which was the apex of ratchett weaves in America
And this revelation is not an example of how dumb I was, but an example of how damaged and brainwashed the minds and self esteem of the majority of black women are from colonization