Curly hair confidence!!

So i have extremelyyyy curly hair. My entire family has straight hair or slightly wavy hair but i have super curly hair. I always felt awkward and insecure because my mom didn’t know how to take care of it and kids at school always made fun of me for it. So i was constantly straightening it and wearing it in a bun.

I’m 16 now and when i have my friends stay over they always make me tie up my hair before bed because “sleeping next to me is uncomfortable” (these girls are usually rlly nice but always make rude comments about my hair). Well my best friend was over and we went to go to bed and I laid my head on his chest to cuddle and realized my hair was down. Out of habit i said “sorry i’ll tie my hair up, hold on” and he looked at me confused. YALL. This man said “you don’t have to tie it up, i love your hair, it doesn’t bother me” and then pulled me back onto him and played with my hair and sang to me while i fell asleep. Ever since then my confidence has been growing and i don’t wear my hair in a bun every single day. I’ve actually been trying out cute hairstyles and taking pictures with my hair down. I know it sounds stupid, like it shouldn’t be a big deal but for the first time in my life i can actually say i adore my hair. It’s crazy how much that one incident, that one night with my best friend affected my confidence.