my parents used to say that my hair looked like "the wreck of the Hesperus"
As a child I had thick but very fine hair (eg LOTS of hairs, but those hairs were very fine/thin)
I didn't brush my hair,
my mother didn't brush my hair,
and it developed horrible tangles that were ***incredibly painful*** to untangle
which further created an aversion to hair-brushing.
The only time my hair ever got brushed as a child was when an honorary Asian Auntie at my parents church grabbed me and started very roughly brushing it, without asking permission.
I always wanted my mother to plait my hair, but she HATED having to do anything to my hair, and she would always yank on it really hard like she was really angry that I had asked for plaits, and then when I said OW
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As a child I had thick but very fine hair (eg LOTS of hairs, but those hairs were very fine/thin)
I didn't brush my hair,
my mother didn't brush my hair,
and it developed horrible tangles that were ***incredibly painful*** to untangle
which further created an aversion to hair-brushing.
The only time my hair ever got brushed as a child was when an honorary Asian Auntie at my parents church grabbed me and started very roughly brushing it, without asking permission.
I always wanted my mother to plait my hair, but she HATED having to do anything to my hair, and she would always yank on it really hard like she was really angry that I had asked for plaits, and then when I said OW
She would say "that didn't hurt!"