i was maybe 6 or 7 at the time and went looking in my parents drawers because they had hidden my favorite toy. i had stumbled upon something...there were a bunch of colorful "thingies" wrapped up individually. i always thought they were candy, up until about 5th grade, when i learned what a condom was.
A childhood belief about condoms
others believed things like this
- I thought if you took some candy and buried in the yard, you would grow a candy tree.Anon
- I thought that the barber sign meant candy because I thought it looked like a candy cane.Anon
- When I was little my parents would tell me if I ate candy before noon I would get worms.— Jenny
- When I was little my parents used to tell me and my sister that carrots were "orange candy." — Nancy
- I learned in the first grade that the Sun was a star just like all the other stars, only it was MUCH bigger.— Geoff
- I always thought the song Blinded by the light went "Wrapped up like a dousche, another runner in the night"— Dawn