being ill

When I were a nipper, like I believed that when the nurse took yer blood pressure, the cuff had a needle which pierced yer vein and the stuff which ran up the tube was yer actual blood, like!

this is because we were soooo poor that I only saw balck and white telly and the mercury looked the same dark colour as blood.

having yer blood pressure taken scared the heck outa me till I were 18.

Now I'm a bachelour of science and a fellow of operating theatre science; I know that is completely untrue; the bloods in the little black squeeze ball!

Mr Chris

Because I never saw my mother cry or appear to be ill.....I always believed grown-ups never got sick and they never cried.Gosh, was I surprised to learn diffrently.

Barb

When i was abot 4 years old, one night i got real
sick and my mom said i had a bug.So untill i was about 9 years old i thought there were bugs in
your tummy that made you sick when you did
something bad.wierd huh?

Jimmy

When I was about 6 or 7, I believed that when you vomited, your spit would turn green. Ah, may a time I spent waiting for my spit to go green while I vomited in the toilet.

Mike

i used to think if u got a cut on your body all of your blood would pour out.

Jay

When I was little, I used to think that the ONLY way that a person could get AIDS is if they had sex with someone who had it. Then I started to see a lot of charity promotions that said things like, 'Help young children with AIDS - donate today!' and I would be like, EEW!

I'm very glad I found out the truth.

Catherine

I used to think that Levitra was an arthritis medicine, and that Viagra was a heart medicine.

Anon

When I was younger, my grandfather was diagnosed with cancer. For some reason I thought he got cancer by someone spraying him with an aerosol can.

Anon

when i first heard about someone dying of a heart attack, my mind was immediately filled with the imagery of someone standing on the roof of his house defending himself against an attack by hundreds of native americans (the very stereotypical bugs bunny representation thereof), and for a while i thought people died of heart attacks because they got hit in the heart with a spear (this for some reason always took place on one's roof).

lou

When i was young i went to a baby sitter that had a daughter the same age as me. She used to tell me that biting and pinching cause cancer. For several years after i feared all that dared pinch or bite me.

Anon

I had a friend tell me once that before we got old we would all have at least one fatal accident! I didn't understand what he meant at the time but as it sounded so dramatic I told my sisters as I thought it must be true!! Only a few years later did we all laugh at how impossible this was!

Tilly

when i was smaller my mom told me that if i walked around the house without shoes, little bugs would climb into me and make me sick

Anon

My dad was always sick when I was little and he would tell me that he, "Caught a bug" After that I was carful to never touch a bug becase I would get sick!

Dana

I used to believe that you got herpes from fish (thanks sis).

Anon

Whenever I'd get a scrape or a cut in any body part of mine, I'd go to cry to my mom and she would tell me that my guts would come out through the cut or scrape.

Jessica

Whenever I had diarrhea, I thought my intestines were shooting out of my butt, so I'd hold it in as long as I could. It wasn't until I was 12 that someone said, "Don't do that!!! Your intestines aren't coming out!"

The Diarrhi

I was always really scared when I was younger that I would get breast cancer but I didn't know how to tell or how to check for it. The advertisements just scared me a lot.

Anon

In norwegian, dehydrated is a word directly translated to something like 'out dried' or 'dried out', and I really couldn't figure out how you could get 'dried out' from having diarrhea... after all, it's kinda wet ;o)

Thom, Norway

I used to believe that the boogey man made you sick and when you broke a bone some invisible man would come and snap your bone.

Lexi Long

I used to believe that if any two HIV-negative men engage in gay sex, both of them will get AIDS.

MDC