My main misconception was that I only looked right with straight hair and that I would look like a fool with natural hair. But I quickly got over that.
My friends' misconceptions are the ones that are interesting. When I tell some of my friends I'm going natural I get, why? Are you going to wear your hair in an afro? Are you getting dreads? How are you going to do your hair? I don't know girl it's going to be so nappy you'll end up putting a perm in it again. Are you going super duper Afrocentric? (WTF?), I couldn't do that I like my hair long (WTF again).
Then when I tell them I'm wearing my hair straight when I want to, curly when I want to, they don't believe me. They shrug me off. Then I tell them, you would be surprised to know that alot of your friends with the long hair, are NATURALS, that chose to straighten.