when i was about eight my brother showed me a condom and he blew it up. so ofcourse i thought it was a balloon
and when he gave it to me i took it into my dad and said look a balloon.
He was so embarresed when he had to explain to me what it was. I really hated my brother after that.
A childhood belief about condoms

others believed things like this
- My older brother used to tell me that if I "untied" it, I'd fly around the room like a balloon. — Gullible youth
- up until puberty I thought that my nipple would inflate like a balloon to form a breast— EiEi
- When i was young I used to believe if I ate ham fat I was going to inflate like a balloon— a guy
- i usd to believe that if i put a balloon on a lawn chair that i could float up in the sky and around the worldAnon
- I used to believe that everytime a balloon was released , it meant that a child had recently died.— Samantha
- If you swallowed chewing gum it would make a balloon inside you and your stomach would explodeAnon