being ill

I used to think that instead of Alzheimers the name of the disease was OLDTIMERS and thats why old people got it.

Anon

when I was about three or four I believed when you got sick there were little men inside you fighting.

NIKI

When I used to have ear infections as a kid, I used to think it was because there were catipillars crawling around the inside and outside of my ears, and I couldn't check because my mom wanted me in bed! I was so frightened and kept on jamming my fingers into my ears to check for catipillars. My brothers encouraging words didnt help much, either.

Melissa

I know it's silly, but as a child, I misunderstood what people said concerning Heart Attacks.
It sounded to me as if they were saying "Hard Attacks"
as though it were some great difficulty, and not involving the heart, at all.
Strange, but I was a child.

Marijo Boo

I used to think (from personal experience) that I only threw up on certain days of the week. Those days were: Sunday, Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. I don't remember ever being sick on any of the other days. lol! Whadda dumb kid!

Angry Sar

There were two double doors when my food went down and when i got sick, they were rusty and it'd be harder to get the food through so it would hurt.

Oops!

In 1st grade, my friend convince me that chicken pox was when you get chicken meat spots in your face. She also added, you can pick the pox off and eat it. Hahaha gross.

S

When I was little, I had read something that if you were hungry all the time, you had a tapeworm. And the only way to get it out was to hold a piece of meat by your mouth and the tapeworm would come out and get it! Needless to say, I was convinced since I was always hungry I had a tapeworm and did not eat meat for like three months!!!

Lindsey

When I was in elementary school I had to get my first hepatitis shot. So I asked my mom about hepatitis and she told me about how you're liver wouldn't work and your skin and the whites of your eyes would turn yellow. Some days I would feel sick so I'd run to the mirror and check to see if I had turned yellow. I was really deathly afraid of contracting hepatitis, A B C D E F G H I J....etc. (It came it EVERY letter of the ABCs for me, not just B or C)

Amber

when i was little (under 6) i used to be afraid that if i ran around after eating id have to be taken to hospital and have a big hole cut into my stomach. I think this stemed from when my dad told me that you get apendisitis from moving too much after eating and then have to go to hospital to get it taken out. I remember one night soon after he told me this i was so scared that my stomach ache (coincidently after running around after dinner) would mean id have to get a hole cut in my stomach

Anon

When i was 12, i was very scared of people when they threw up. I was told that bathroms that people barfed in were bad to into, and the barf would come out of the toilet or or the shower, and i avoided bathrooms that people puked in for a long time. When my best friend spent the weekend with me, we ate some chinese food, and she had the salmon, and in the morning, she went to the bathroom, and well, threw up. she told me, and i didnt go there for a year.

Dana

When I was a kid, I use to think that if I got a cut and ate the blood that would come out it would just go back into my system and I would have the same amount of blood.

Daisha

I thought "evacuate" meant "to vomit" because in the sequel to 'Nanny McPhee' (called Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang), a character throws up and another character refers to it as an "evacuation".

Anon

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

I used to think Parkinson Disease was named after Micheal Parkinson.

Silly Me.

My Mom had a car accident soon after I was born and had to have surgery on her knee because of it. Somehow, I got it into my head that there were still tiny doctors living inside her knee, working on it.

Jeremy

When I was little and had a tummy ache, I used to think that if you sat really still and didn't talk it would go away on its own. I guess I am a slow learner because I ended up puking all over myself more than once before I figured out that it wasn't true.

Anon

I used to belive that when you got ill, that these imaginary people inside you started to die. So when I took medicen, it made them feel better.

Little People

when i was little my mom used to get a ton of migrains and my older brother always told me to leave the room because when you get a migrain this little guy in your head pushes on your eyeballs and they pop out of your head!

lea

I thought that germs were tiny people and when i was sick, a war between the good germs and bad germs was raging, so i felt all crazy when i was sick.

poisen