being ill

i used to believe that if you were sick in school the school would shut down and would be dis-infected by the special people so when i was sick i wondered why noone was cheering they were just saying errr so i asked my mum when i was taken home and she really dis-appointed me saying that you didnt close the school and go home....but i still enjoyed going home but not the sick part

beth-star

I used to believe that when you got cancer all your hair fell out cos that's what cancer did. Found out later that's what chemotherapy does.

h

My little brother used to believe that AIDS was transmitted by the "AIDS fly," which was a normal housefly except that it had a big red A on its back.

Jimmy Fuckbar

I used to believe that cancer meant surgery.

Heather

I have insomnia and when I do not get enough sleep, I feel sick. My sister and I were both under the impression that this was called "African Sleeping Sickness."

Jen Larkin

I have a box I called my "memory box". Well, when I was little I was puking in a trash can and grabbed my box and breathed in it to see if I could capture the smell.

To this day, every time I open it I get the smell of vomit. So now I tell people to open it just for laughs.

EJMLover

My aunt used to tell me that, if you squeezed the skin under your chin, you would eventually get cancer. And I was only 7 when she told me this!!!

kathi

When I was in elementery school, my father had a heart attack and nearly died. In my music class the teacher would blow into a round disk before we sang a song to get the right pitch. Somehow I believed she was blowing into the disk to prevent her from getting a heart attack!

Cougar

I used to belive that Alka selters were for the dish washer.

Anon

When i was little i used to belive that there was this man or woman that my parents would take me to and see me naked sometimes and did all this stuff and payed alot of attention to me was like my second dad and then when i was 4 i found out that was my doctor!!

m&ms

I remember seeing some PSAs on Nickelodean about aids and how nobody was in risk and the only way to get it was through sharing blood. I thought to myself "why would two people cut their fingertips and touch each other's fingertips together?" Now i know.

Anon

When my sister hurt her right leg she hopped... wait for it... on her RIGHT leg ... so she wouldn't hurt the left leg and not be able to get around at all. She also somehow got a limp when she jammed her thumb in the door

Anon

my little sister had a cold, and since it was spring time... she naturally thought she had spring fever! she later than figured out that spring fever was not an actual illness!

monroe

I used to pronounce cattarh as guitar. When I had a cold, I once said can I play with my guitar, where in fact it was cattarh. Dad went red in the face.

Helen

When I was 4 and my sister was 6 me and my sister would kick the walls and my mom said we would get chicken pocks I believed it until I got the chicken pocks.

Kayla

Well, this is an entry for the kids I used to babysit. I ordered some purple colored contacts for fun a few years back. During the weeks in between their arrival, I told two children that a scary new disease was going around. It was deadly, and the only visual symptom was having purple eyes. A few week later I had to explain to crying children that I was joking. Whoops.

Charlotte

My cousin used to tell me that if I had slept in someone else sleeping bag I'd get AIDS, believed it too.

Dana

I used to believe that if you touched your own privates you would get AIDS.

girlfloyd

When I was a kid everytime I got a headache I thought I had a tumor, and was sure a meteor would strike the earth at any given moment.

Audrey

When I got a bad throat, I thought it is going to be like this forever now. So every 5 minutes I tried coughing, and felt disappointed and sad each time.

Abhinav