Pencil tool switches between black and white colors

I've been using the pencil tool in Photoshop for a while, but he started to behave differently.

When I have the foreground color, white color, and black background, the pencil tool draws in black. If I make a new line over an area that is black, it changes and performs the selection with white. It does behave like this for any other color as far as I can tell, and the layers do not seem to impact. The mode is too normal. Is attached a picture of my layout, the black caps were made while white was the foreground color, and white in the middle of the black has been selected above them, with the same settings. Is this a problem of content aware? How can I make my pencil draw blank again?

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