These are the words of a 7-year-old girl.
She once asked me,
“Why isn’t my hair pretty like yours?
Why isn’t it soft like my friends’ hair at school?
Why do I keep screaming whenever my mom fixes it for me?
I wanted to straighten my hair for weddings.
Whenever all of my friends see me, they say, ‘Why is your hair so coarse and ugly?’
Am I going to stay like this until I grow up?
I wish my hair would become straight,
So that I wouldn’t keep yelling and screaming because it hurts me every time my mom fixes it for me.
Why is my hair so coarse and messy?”
Why Do I Have Ugly Hair?
2018