When I was 6, I saw a condom on the ground in my neighborhood and my friends told me and my sister not to touch it. Somehow I believed that a condom was a "kingdom" where little people lived, and I wasn't allowed to touch it because I might kill the little civilians who lived in the "kingdom". I brought it up about ten years later, only to find that my sister believed the same thing.
A childhood belief about condoms
others believed things like this
- My sister told me not to touch hail stones because they were radioactive. — Mary K
- I believed alligators lived in toilets, and one apparently got hold of my sister.Anon
- Until I was about 10 years old, I used to believe that a condom was a type of lollipop!— Marcel
- When I was about 6 years old, I thought "condom" was short for "condominium!"— Confused Child
- My sister told me that Fraggles lived in our basement. I used to sit down there forever so I could see them. — Suzie
- I used to belief sloths lived in trees outside my childhood home. My older sister told me so.Anon