when I was younger, I thought that the Q-tips and cotton balls that my mom would use were for use during her periods, because sometimes they had red and brown stuff left over on them. Finally, after actually seeing my mom use them to put on makeup, I realized that they were actually for putting makeup on.
A childhood belief about periods

others believed things like this
- As a small child I believed that the word was "nakeup", finally I found out that it was actually "makeup".— Hannnah P.
- I thought planes collected clouds to make cotton balls.— Eddie
- I used to believe that the clouds were made of cotton balls— Jeannie
- i used to beleive cotton balls were marshmellows— carly
- 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