being ill

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

I GREW UP IN THE 80'S. ONE DAY I WAS WATCHING THE T.V AND A NEWS SPECIAL CAME ON, TELLING THE WORLD ABOUT THE DANGERS OF AIDS. THAT AFTERNOON I FELT MINUTELY OFF COLOUR, SO I BROKE THE NEWS TO MY DAD: 'Dad, I feel ill, I'm afraid I've got Aids'.
that was when he knew how frighteningly intelligent I would be : )

crystaltips

My best friend's older brother convinced us we'd get cancer if we slept in socks. I know it's not true now, but STILL can't sleep in socks!!

Megan

When I was very young my aunt had had TB (tuberculosis). Any way, after their first child, my friend, they couldn't have another, so they adopted one. I asked my mom why and she said "because Aunt June had TB. Well, never having heard of this, I herard "TV" and for years thought that she couldn't have children becaues of television!

mike

From the first time i had learned about cancer to about 7 I thought that you had cancer if you lost hair. One day i was taking a shower and i noticed alot of hair came out when i brushed my hair. I started noticing it more and more until one day i came out crying saying i had cancer. My parents laughed at me and told me that it wasn't true lol

christine

When I was about 4 and 5 I thought you got chicken pox by getting pecked by a chicken.One day my brother bit me and the next day I got chicken pox ,then I ran up to my mom and yelled "MOM JAKES A CHICKEN DOES THAT MEAN DADDYS A CHICKEN AHHH!"

Abby

When i first got the chicken pots/pocks--whatever they are--my mum told me that in the morning i would turn into a chicken. i cried real bad all night and my mum felt guilty and tried to persuade me it wasn't true. In the morning when i saw i was me i smiled all day!

SilentDeath

Until recently I thought you could only get diabetes from eating too much sugar not just from being overweight

Tooken

I actually believed I got my chicken pox from the chickens I used to play with at my grandmothers house!(I think she wanted me to leave them alone!)

Melissa

I used to think that AIDS was transmitted by the Aedes mosquito, and was scared to death of being bitten by mosquitoes for fear of getting AIDS.

Lady M

when I was little I thought that when you threw up it was because you ate too much and so all the food filled up your stomach and went up your esophogus and out of your mouth.

Anon

When I was about 8 years old, we learnt about how Jesus cured lepers. The Teacher was bombarded with questions about leprosy and she spent about an hour explaining what it was. Somehow I managed to greatly misunderstand the disease and for about a year afterwards I thought that anyone who had their fingers curled up a little had leporsy. For that year I went around with my hands dead straight so that I wouldnt be at risk of getting the disease.

Anon

When I was a younger girl (just before I hit puberty) I use to get alot of cramps in my side. I never really new what cramps were. I actually thought the pain that I was experiencing was the chocolate easter bunny ear that I ate poking me in the side.

Kim

I used to believe that earaches were when an earwig got in your ear! I had a litteral phobia of earwigs, and anything that resembled them in the slightest, such as centipedes, for years.

Anon

When i was a child i heard people talking about getting Aids from the needle, one day i was playing with my microscope kit which had a needle type thing with it and accidently poked myself well for along time i thought i had Aids. i would cry at night because i was scared to go to sleep because i thought i would die

Crystal Walker

when my son was was 7 he thought chicken pox was something parents let chickens do to their children when they want to get rid of them!

elysiam

I thought Viagra was an arthritis medication until i was about 13 years old.

Anon

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

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 also once got sick while I was wearing a certain nightgown so I was scared that if I wore it again I would get sick again. I never ever wore it again!

courtney