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I used to think that a general anasthetic was one used widely, all over the country, and a local anasthetice was a shot of rum or some tradiotional remidy only used locally.
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At the age of 8, I saw a TV show that talked about the link between those really big electricity pylons and cancer.
Every time we drove underneath them, I believed that holding my breath would prevent me 'catching' cancer.
In my mid-teens I realised I was still holding my breath everytime I went underneath them.
Lumpen
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My brother once told me that with German measles you broke out in swastikas, not red spots. I believed it until I did catch German measles
Steve
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My brother told me that when the doctors took out someone's tonsils, they went throiugh their ear. After that, i never told my parents when I had a sore throat, for fear of having my tonsils removed from my ear.
Jennifer
I thought that AIDS would mean you would turn into a crushed car cube because I was watching a TV programme and someone was upset because their mum had AIDS and then there was a crushed car cube so thought that was wot happend.
Rob
Because I never saw my mother cry or appear to be ill.....I always believed grown-ups never got sick and they never cried.Gosh, was I surprised to learn diffrently.
Barb
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i used to believe that if i washed my hands with very cold water, the germs wold freeze because of the cold and die.
CHERRYbomb
For years I was terrified I might get diarrhoea because, although I knew what it was, I thought it came from your ears!
Craig
I used to think if i ate chicken i would get chicken pox because all of my friends at primary school told me so!
Tinkerbell
In kindergarten a classmate told me that if I chewed on pencils I'd get lead poisoning from the 'lead.' I think in fact it the real danger was from the paint.
queeneve
I never cried when I got a shot at the doctors office as a child because I used to believe that the alcohol they would swab on your arm was a pain killer. Because of mind over matter I felt very little pain.
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During the late 50's, as I began to watch T.V. and learn about reading, I saw advertisements referring to the dangers of "T.B."- I can recall thinking it couldn't be all THAT bad, since I was watching one, and the message was portrayed on one-quite a while passed before I had a clue about the difference between tuberculosis and television- as to the question of which is more dangerous, societally speaking, who can say?
GRW
I remember being sick and my mom saying, 'You have a bug.' I thought that there was an actual, singular bug making me sick and that if I sneezed or blew my nose enough it would come out and I'd be fine. When I eventually did get better, I knew I'd succeeded.
queeneve
I used to believe that when you have Diarrhoea it burns a second whole in your a*se!!
Pigeon
I thought only 5 or 6 people in the world had AIDS. This was the late 1980s/early 1990s. Even though many people were talking about AIDS at that time, I knew it was a "rare disease". I also was aware of Ryan White, so I figured if people got famous only for having AIDS, not many people had the disease.
My school gave me some facts about AIDS which cleared my misunderstanding.
Matt Thiel
When I was 4 I had a very high fever and my mom took me to the emergency room. I complained about being cold, so the nurse gave me a paper-like sheet to cover up with. I refused to use it because I belived that if I fell asleep and the doctors saw me all covered up they'd think I needed to be operated on and take me into surgery.
Joy
I thought that to have a blood transfusion the doctors had to completly drain your own blood first before putting the new blood in.
Sarah
When I was a kid I used to belive that when you hurt yourself there was only a certain amount o pain it could cause. I could regularly be oung squeezing my cuts and bruises with tears streeming down my face! Whoops.
Laura
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When I was a little kid I thought that if you gave somebody your cold you would no longer be sick. So when I had a cold I would kiss people and then give them two short breaths in their faces to give them my cold. Nice kid.
Rocketeer
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My sister told me that if you put alcohol on a wound that your brains would come out of your nose. I believed that one for years.
Cori
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