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My mother told all 5 of us kids that if we swung on the doors we would get the chicken pox. Sure enough, all five of us got the disease.
Rachel Johnson
top belief!
I used to believe that cough medicine had a toggle effect. In other words, if you took cough medicine when you didn't have a cold, it gave you a cold
Little Ronny
Tonsillectomy! (You should have a section for meidcal procedures and surgery) Went through it, got the ice cream for a week afterwards. Later in the doctor's office for follow-up I just INSISTED that No, they had not taken out my tonsils! My mother and the doc just stared at me, incredulous.
Roger Mexico
When I was young and I didn't want to go to school, my mom used to make me use one of those 'under-the-arm' thermometers to make sure that I really had a fever.
I used to go into my room, close my door, and hold my breath for as long as I could, because I thought this would raise my temperature.
It never did.
David
when i had a cut or scratch, i used to believe that if i ate my blood it would go right back to the same spot in my body.
antonio
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When I was little, I believed that four little people lived in my stomach - one green, one red, one blue, and one yellow. Their job was to reconstruct all the food that I swallowed, and stack it up for digestion. (that's why the corn kernels came out whole - gross, I know.)
If I ate too much in one day, the stack would reach up into my throat and I would throw up.
(these little people were smaller versions of the same colored people who lived under my bed - for many years I couldn't allow a limb to dangle off the edge of my bed or the little people would grab it and pull me under.)
odd creativity girl
I used to beleive that if you swolled a tablet whole you would get kidney stones
kaye
When I was younger, I thought Alzheimers was really "Old Timers" because only old people had it. Imagine my embarassment when I said to my mother when I was about 17 that someone had Old Timers Disease.
Janelle
if I threw up hard enough, my entire stomach would come out of my mouth and hang there by the esophagus. Then the Dr. would have to stick it back down my throat! (result:lifelong fear of vomiting!)
Lori
When i was young i went to a baby sitter that had a daughter the same age as me. She used to tell me that biting and pinching cause cancer. For several years after i feared all that dared pinch or bite me.
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when I was young, a classmate was hit by a car and was in the hospital in a coma. I pictured her laying in the hospital in a huge ice cream cone shaped object.
laura
For whatever reason, I used to get chest pains when I was a child. I was so frightened of doctors that I never mentioned them. One day when I was eight I tried to nonchalantly mention them to my mother, who (and I still wonder why she didn't show more concern) told me they were growing pains. I must have been 20 when I started thinking that I can't still be growing.
MrBeefy
when I was a kid I believed that I had a mortal illness that my parents hid of me.
KEITH MOON
whenever i saw someone with an arm or a leg bandaged i thought they would stay like that forever and felt sorry for them
camila
I used to believe as a child that there were little men with cranks who ran my body. And when they broke down, I would get sick.
Sara
I used to believe that when I got headaches that it meant my brain was growing so I'd try to read as much as possible.
Kim
I used to believe that you got herpes from fish (thanks sis).
My father always told me my stomach aches were just "butterflies". I literally thought I had butterflies running around in my stomach. It was when I voiced the opinion at about age 11 that I realized what he meant.
Trish
My niece, quite young at the time, asked her mother if there was such a thing as a "Kid Knee" infection, was there also such a thing as a "Mother Knee" infection.
Boo
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