being ill

i got ear infections a lot from swimming, i believed they were caused by little monsters that swam into your ears and gnawed at the inside with its teeth

kate

I used to believe that when my hair fell out in the shower, that I had cancer. Later I learned that the amount of hair I lost daily was normal, not to mention that "cancer hair loss" is caused by Chemo, not cancer.

Anon

I used to believe those gel capsule pills were actually made out of plastic and that taking them was pointless because you would poop the pills out whole without them ever opening in your stomach to let the medicine out.

Anon

I used to think that the word blurb was a noise that people made when being sick. Bluuuggghhh.

Natasha

I used to think you could have a heart attack if you failed to fall in love.

Anon

My daughter had a blood blister on her finger and asked me if she could have a bandaid. I told her she wouldn't need a badaid unless the blister burst. It was out of my mouth before I realized what must be going through her head. Sure enough, she let out a scream and started sobbing because she thought her finger was going to blow up.

Jennifer

when i was little i thought people with big heads or big noses had cancer...

Anon

my grandmother would tell me that if i exercised after eating(specifically, if i jumped up and down), food i ate would go into my appendix and i would get appendicitis. i would visualize this happening, and even thought it could happen if i slept on my side. so for years i refused to sleep on my right side, and usually slept on my back

Priscilla

I remember one night when I was around 7, we had all gathered at my grandmother's for some family thing. Me and my best cousin (who was 2 months younger) were acting goofy as usual (sliding down the stairs on our asses, to be precise); Prior to descending into fits of laughter, she turned to me and said, "we'd better stop or we'll get the giggles." For a long time after that, I believed that "the giggles" was a serious illness that I'd have to go to the doctor for if I was ever unfortunate enough to contract it.

Tornado

Once, when i was little, I saw my older brother sucking on his bleeding cut.

"Ryan, what are u doing!!" I said, amazed that my older brother would do something as silly and as gross as sucking on a cut.

"I'm fixing my cut!" He shouted back.

"What do u mean fixing your cut?!?!!?!" I asked.

"Well, if you suck on ur cut for about twenty minutes, ur blood will go back into ur body and ur cut will heal!!" He said to me. He still talks about it to this day!

kelsey

My dad has a permanent stroke so he doesn't understand when he eats he needs to wipe his mouth, so my brother told me that stuff coming out of his mouth was cancer and then i thought my dad had cancer. He also had a bowl he ate out of a lot and i got so scared to eat out of that bowl cuz i thought i'd get cancer. I called it the cancer bowl. I was scared up until i was 10 or 11 to eat out of that bowl and even know i still get grossed out eating out of that bowl.

Fear of cancer bowl

If you had a mouth ulcer it's because you've been telling lies.

David Smithers

When my brother broke his leg he had to get a rod put into it. I got mad because I thought the doctors hurt him worse

Anon

I used to think that when somebody was in a coma, it meant that they were in a full-body cast. I thought the actual full-body cast was called a coma.

Angela

i used to think that a local anaesthetic was the type used in your area and a general was nationwide. so herts would have a different local anaesthetic from yorks.......

scott_the_geeza

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 beleive that if you swolled a tablet whole you would get kidney stones

kaye

A boy in my class at school had been absent for a few days. When the teacher asked him why, he said he had a verucca. At the time he also had a sore throat so for ages I thought that a verucca was something like laryngitis.

Mike B. London

When people said they had a cataract I thought that meant that a bad kitty had scratched their eye and it caused permanent damage.

Jessy

I used to believe that the "gimmys" were an actual disease or virus that you could get. My mom told me that my cousin got the gimmys once and that i shouldn't be like him.

Anon