When my sister was very young, she had the idea that she could, with the help of a pencil, push a cotton ball in one ear and out the other. It of course became lodged tight and after my Ma's valiant efforts to extract it with a Shop-Vac, finally gave in and took her to the ER.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- As a kid I used to believe that when you sharpened your pencil, the eraser on the pencil grew.Anon
- i used to believe cotton candy was real cotton after going to chuckie cheese and my brother told me— jennifer
- When I was young, I used to believe that clouds were made of cotton— Anonim
- I used to think that cotton candy was made from actual cotton so I never wanted to try itAnon
- i used to belive that the cotton and the cotton candy were the same things and for this reason i ate both.— tiziana
- I used to believe that cotton candy was made out of cotton and sugar.— Ezy