being ill

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 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

I believed up till a few years ago, (I was about 12 or 13 at the time) that I was going to have a heart attack. And I thought this because I had thought my teacher during a discussion on day, said that blue veins meant that they were clogged with fat. And well I had then and still do have many large blue veins running to my heart, as everyone does. It took my mom to set me straight, and we had a good laugh about it... still do actually.

Bryce Addington

I got the chicken pox when I was about 5 years old. It was my belief that I got sick because I ate chicken. My brother, then 11, told me that was the reason. I remember not being able to eat chicken after that. It is only now I can eat it...but still, it is with silly caution. I only eat the meat from the breasts.

claudia.

i used to believe that when you had cramps your appendix would blow up.

Avery

I used to think that you could not only take too much medication and overdose, but you could take too little and "underdose".

Yeah, I wasn't the brightest crayon on the box.

Amanda

I used to believe that a tummy ache was really a tummy "egg", and that having a stomach ache and having to go to the bathroom meant that you had an egg inside your stomach that was making it hurt.

Anon

When I was a kid a little boy at our school was in a wheelchair and braindamaged. When I asked my mom what was wrong with him, she said he had "encephalitis". I must've looked puzzled because she further elaborated that meant he had "water on his brain". I was convinced it came in through his ears. I would not put my head under water for years.

Molly

When I was little I loved to run arround barefoot in my grandma's back yard. At some point me and my cousin got worms in our intestines. My grandma told me that we got the worms by walking barefoot in the ground. She said that the worms would get inside of you through the pores on your feet. To this day I don't walk barefoot in the ground and I can't touch an earth worm.

Laura

I used to believe that a recurring dream I'd have each time a fever broke was a memory from a past life.

I had to make a choice somehow connected to a large sphere that would determine whether or not humanity would continue to exist. I made a decision and everyone died. I was eight.

Cameron

When I was a kindergarten student, I used to believe I could fly in the sky.
One day I tried to fly from the jungle gym and I broke my legs and hand.

saki

I thought that borderline personality disorder meant the person almost had a personality disorder, but not quite.

THE_FISH

I use to believe that if my hair fell out I had cancer, and was most likely going to die soon.

Luca

I thought a stomach ache was a stomach egg

Catherine

There's a scene in Mary Poppins, where Mary's uncle is floating in the air laughing, then when the others laugh, they also float. Mary and Bert describe the uncle as "contagious", so my cousin and I thought that he had some sort of disease that made him float. We called it "the float-when-you-laugh disease".

Anon

Because people say that candy is bad for you, I thought that meant you shouldn't eat it while sick, even if it was just a cold.

Anon

One day, my friend and I were playing in the woods behind his house. As I was running around, I cut my knee on a thorn bush, so we both looked at the wound (it was nothing big). My friend told me that I MUST NOT let a bee sting me on the cut or else I would get diabetes. I believed him, but my mom quickly corrected me when I told her about it.

Matt

I broke my arm when I was 6. After it healed, I had to go back to the orthopedic clinic a couple times a year for checkups "to make sure it was growing right." From this I gathered that there was a serious danger that my arm would stop growing. I was terrified of becoming a full-grown adult with one little child-sized arm!

I don't think I ever told my parents of this fear, because they would have set me straight. I just gradually forgot about it after I stopped having to go to the doctor, and eventually I noticed that my arm had grown just fine along with the rest of me.

Katrin

My mom used to tell me that if I didn't brush my teeth, a family of "cavity creeps" would sneak into my mouth in the middle of the night and give me cavities. There was a mom, a dad, and their son, whose name was Junior.

Anon

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