being ill

i used to believe that the disease "alzheimers" was old timers and all old people get it as soon as they hit 50

amanda

I used to believe you would get attacked by germs by breathing the breese that goes by when somebody walks by you. When I was 6 or 7, I would hold my breath until I felt that the breeze was gone. I would imagine little germs coming up in a swarm and wanting me to breathe them in, then whoosh on by. Wierd, but true.

James the Great

I used to believe hickeys could kill you.

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When I was a kid, my father often took me with him to a friend's truck garage. One day, outside that garage, I was playing around some kind of tank that had attracted my curiosity. But the garage owner told me to be careful around that structure, because it had some electrical connections, and there was a risk of electrocution there. I immediately quit playing around that thing, but that by no means put my fears to rest. I had only a vague notion of what electrocution might be like, thinking it might be like poisoning. Just as one could be poisoned without knowing it at the time and then die later, I supposed electrocution might work in such a way also, that I might have been electrocuted without knowing it and then die later. It must have been months to years after I quit playing around that tank before quit having a mortal fear of possibly dying at any time from it.

Greg

A couple of years ago, my mom said, "Dont crack your knuckles! You'll get Arthritis!"

KnuckleCracker

I got kissed by a neighbor boy when I was 5. My sister told my mom who told me that that was how germs were spread and that it was unhealthy. For the next week I kept excepting to drop dead and was grossed out by kissing until I was 15.

Beth

My Grandma would make up lies in order to scare me into behaving. Once she told me if I went to bed without drying my hair after my bath, I'd wake up the next morning with a headache that would last FOREVER.
I always disobeyed anyway and made it through without the eternal headache from hell. But I was ALWAYS scared. Sometimes I would pray at night and ask God not to punish me with the headache...

Christina

When I was in elementary school I heard a story on the news about how they thought cancer was connected to "genes". I thought they meant "jeans" so I refused to wear them.

Heather

Once I was watching T.V. with my aunt, uncle and brother. a comercial came on about getting help with erectile difficulties. My brother (who had no idea what the heck he was talking about) said "i think i have that" my uncle laughed and convinced him that "reptile" difficulties were when a lizard was sick he believed him untill he was 11.

Anon

My kindergarten teacher was tellign us about germs and how bad they were. She said to avoid breathing with your mouth so you wouldn't get the germs. Well one day, I had a cold. My nose was all stuffed up and I couldn't breathe, but I still listened to the teacher's warning. Needless to say I looked like a complete idiot.

Mandy D

i woke up in the mddle of th night one time and started picking at one of my scabs and ended up pulling it off. i cried all night long thinking that i was gonna bleed to death cuz we didn't have anymore band aids.

Anon

when i was about 10, i kinda believed that anyone who had been given a general anesthetic was after that a 'zombie', who may act like a normal person, but has no consciousness. and i even told this to a psychiatrist...lucky not to have been locked up

sam kayley

When I was little and would bleed (injury, picked scab.. whatever) I was conviced that if you licked the blood from it it would heal faster.. I knew you shouldn't lose too much blood, so I thought i was doing my body a favor.. Go figure.

Anon

When I was four I was told that my cousin had split his head open while playing on the swings in the park. I went to visit him and was very disappointed to see that he had only a few stitches in a little cut rather than his head being completely cleaved in two like an orange cut in half.

Anon

I used to believe that when someone pointed a laser pointer at you which i thought was rare, you were bound to get leprosy which was really rare. I also used to think that bird bites triggered it. One day my sister pointed on at me and i screamed and yelled as she laughed. I hated her for that.

Hunt