being ill

I used to believe that you would get chicken pox if you touched a chicken.
One day I asked my mom and she said that you don't.

Joe

I believed that when you got really sick the roof above your bed would open and you would float to the hospital with your bed

Boonz

In America there used to be a cold remedy called Vicks Vap-o-Rub. It was a mentholated gel to be rubbed on the chest of a congested person. As a child, I thought it worked because overnight, the gel got absorbed directly into my lungs, right through the skin, muscle, organs and bones. The next morning I could breathe clearly!

Dufus

when i was little my mum used to tell me that if i cuddled a teddy i had (called pooly bear)when i was ill i would get better because he ate all the germs while i was asleep so i went to sleep quickly.

cara hessey

I saw a cartoon of germs and I actually thought that germs were little green or purple balls that would attack you. And when i blinked a lot I could see them.

Jon

I used to believe that when you take a tablet there is a person that catches it when you swallow it and takes it straight to where the pain is......stupid or what?.

silly billy

One time I was with these kids that went to my church, and I fell down and just assumed that my leg was broken. One of the little boys told me that if you would shine a light on one side of your leg, and u could see that red glow on the other, that it wasn't broken. He got this huge flashlight, and we saw the red glow, so then I knew I was ok. From then on when I would get hurt I would do the flashlight test :-)

Natalie

when I was little I hated getting needles from the dentist (still hate needles) anyway, my dentist was a children's dentist, and told me that he didn't use needles. he used an instrument that massaged the gums with anasthetic called "the Blue Tickler" and so I believed him.
until I was 16
when my older sister mocked me to no end.
I had no reason to doubt him! topical anasthetics exist!
she still makes fun of me, 7 years later.
although, the very same dentist was a bald man, and my sister, when she was a child, stared up at him raptly as he described the procedure, and instead of listening, spider-walked her fingers up and across his bald pate while singing 'the itsy bitsy spider' in soft tones. My parents still call her "inky binky" (somewhere the words got changed) and it has been 20 some years for her, so I should stop complaining

heather

When I heard my mom talking with the doctor about TB tests. I thought they said "TV test" and I was wonderingthat I would answer all the questions right about television shows.

Anon

I used to believe that when you had a blood transfusion, all your blood was removed and then replaced by new blood.

kittycat

One time my brother and his friend told me that if you puked three times you would die. I believe them and went crying to my mom that i was gonna die

Lauren

when i started to hiccup, but cousin told me to drink some water, but i didnt listen to him. he then told me that if i didnt drink some water, i would die, and i believed him.

mare

when I was little, I used to believe that when you broke your arm, that part of your arm would actually fall right off. Then evenntually it would grow back.

Anon

I used to believe that if anyone got pricked by a pin/needle, the metal would go straight through their blood to their heart, and they'd die immediately.

Anon