When I was younger I was watching the first Austin Powers and I asked my mom what a condom was. She told me it was a balloon that a man puts on his tool to keep the woman from getting pregnant. Little did I know this "balloon" wasn't supposed to be inflated. Wow was that naive. For years I wondered how a man fit his tool in a woman with a big balloon on it.
A childhood belief about condoms

others believed things like this
- My sister told me once that if I sucked too much helium out of a balloon, my lungs would explode.Anon
- 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
- 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
- I used to believe that everytime a balloon was released , it meant that a child had recently died.— Samantha