When I was young my parents gave me my first bit of cotton candy at a circus. They explained what it was, and I cried because I didn't want to eat it. I thought they were trying to feed me balled up tissues, for some reason.
A childhood belief about sweeties

others believed things like this
- i used to belive that the cotton and the cotton candy were the same things and for this reason i ate both.— tiziana
- i thought cotton candy was made out of cottonAnon
- i used to believe cotton candy was real cotton after going to chuckie cheese and my brother told me— jennifer
- I used to think that cotton candy was made from actual cotton so I never wanted to try itAnon
- I used to believe that cotton candy was made out of cotton and sugar.— Ezy
- When I was a kid, I slept with my fists balled up because I thought if I didn't, E.T. would eat my fingers. — Brian