When my mother was a child, she believed that being a clown was a birth defect rather just makeup. She thought that if you were born with a face like that, you had to join the circus to entertain people. There were no other options.
A childhood belief about clowns

others believed things like this
- As a small child I believed that the word was "nakeup", finally I found out that it was actually "makeup".— Hannnah P.
- I used to believe that picadilly circus was like a giant circus in the centre of london.— ãhnn???
- I used to believe that a 'Flea Circus' really was a circus with performing feas!— Jo Lancashire
- I used to think that if you didn't have a birth mark you hadn't been born.— Kim
- When I was young, I believed that because my mother was born in New Mexico, that I was part Mexican.Anon
- When I was a year old, I believed if I hid my face, my mother couldn't see me because I couldn't see her.— kimberly dianne(: