being ill

I thought herniae only occurred in male genitalia.

Natasha

I used to wonder what happened to people when the doctors couldn't make them better, because naturally you don't die until you're really old

Chris

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

In elementary school, everyone believed in cooties, and would give eachother "cootie shots". It would go something like "circle, circle, dot dot, now you have a cootie shot". I never really believed in cooties, and I never knew what they were, but I always thought if I didn't have a cootie shot my friends wouldn't talk to me anymore!

Sarah

I believed that bee stings caused chicken pox. Don't know why...

Anon

whenever i got a stomach ache as a kid, i always pictured a mouse with blue overalls on pushing a wooden play block out of a shadow and into light. this mouse was in my stomach, of course, causing the ache.

Anon

When I first learned how to read for some reason I checked a book out from the library about a little girl who had diabetes. I cried when I read it and for YEARS afterward I thought that if I ate too much sugar, or too much in general, at a given time I'd get diabetes and die. I read about the symptoms somewhere too, and if ever I thought I went potty too much I'd get scared and wait outside crying until my dad got home. I'd tell him "daddy, I think I have "dee-a-betty's"

I couldn't pronounce it until I was in middle school. I got over this fear sometime, I guess.

Amber

I used to think that only Asians could get SARS.

Kellee

I used to believe everything mostly mental illness is when you are very ill and might die! And I am mentally ill myself!

KB

I used to think that autism was some sort of childhood disease.

Anon

I used to think saying "six" would make you sick

Anon

I've been thinking for all my life that ADHD is just an excuse for misbehaving.

Anon

When I was little, my cousin had kidney problems. I'd hear my mom discussing this quite often, and tried to imagine what a kidney looked like - kind of like a red cabbage cut in half. Why I got this image is beyond me.

Kim

For some reason I used to think that whenever I woke up with a really bad sore throat it was beacause I didn't brush my teeth properly the night before. Now that I'm older and know this isn't the case, I still brush my teeth a little bit longer when I have a sore throat!

Lauren

when I was a kid I believed that I had a mortal illness that my parents hid of me.

KEITH MOON

When I was a kid I used to belive that when you hurt yourself there was only a certain amount o pain it could cause. I could regularly be oung squeezing my cuts and bruises with tears streeming down my face! Whoops.

Laura

As a child my mother would tell me, "Don't sit on cold cement or you'll get piles!" (hemorrhoids)

LJB

I must have been about 7 years old when my mum told me that my dad had a gall stone. When I asked how he got it she replied that he had swallowed some grit while digging in the garden. She totally denies it now.

Mindful

i thought that sewing pins would give me a disease if i pricked my finger on one (i think my mom told me just to be careful). today i am really careful with pins and if i do poke myself i have this instant instinct that its bad!

jessika

when I was about 4 - 5 years old a nurse in the ospital told me that if I won't eat the hospital's awful dinner
or any other dish I'll be so light that I'll start flying to the sky like a baloon and I'll die and that no one will help me - the polish reality is awful because no one cares about children goodness:-(

Anon