I used to think that only girls got their temperatures taken rectally because girls (ie, moms) were allowed to see other girls' tushies but not boys' tushies. I was the youngest of three girls and their were no boys in the house. One time, I saw my friend's brother with a thermometer on top of a jar of vaseline in his room when he was sick, and she told me that both boys and girls got their temperatures taken in their tushies.

Stephanie

I used to believe that in the middle of the Donna Summer hit " love to love you baby", where she would make moaney sex noises, she had a tummy ache

Chelle

I used to think that if I fell down I would get amnesia. So anytime I "fell", which was usually a fake fall, I would quickly say my name, address, etc. to make sure I didn't have amnesia

Camille

when i was younger, i thought there were tiny people inside of me and when i had a tummy ache, that they were playing bowling

rae

I used to believe that needles were given for no good reason whatsoever. (But thankfully when I was young enough to believe such a thing, I actually liked needles.)

Anon

I used to believe that getting a needle and not crying was extremely brave and grown up. Therefore, I liked needles because they were a chance for me to show that I was a very very brave person! (And now I have developed a phobia of needles, funnily enough.)

Anon

My sisters once told me if I blinked too much I would get cancer.

How mean... D:

Budster

That if you went on the swings right after you ate, you would get chicken pox.

Anon

Until 8th grade I had never heard of a staph infection. All the teachers were talking about a staph infection that was in my school. I thought they meant staff infection, like a disease that was being passed on from teacher to teacher but no students had caught it. (A few of the teachers had been absent already, so I just assumed...) I was really embarressed when I learned what it really meant.

C

When I was younger my dad was talking to me about cancer (I don't know why, i think I asked what it was but I really don't remember). When he started talking to me about scientists looking for cures, his laptop, which was on the table near us, shut off and the screensaver (the colorful ball thing that changes shapes) came on. For the longest time I thought that the screensaver thingy was a computer program that scientists made to look for the cure for cancer.

C

When I was a kid my brother told me that if I fake coughed then I would get cancer... I believed that UNTIL I found out what cancer REALLY is. To this day I can't believe why I actually believed that.

*Cough*

one day, in the third or fourth grade, our teacher told us about AIDS and the methods by which it was transmitted. it was the usual methods--unprotected sex, unsafe blood transfusions, iv drug use and tattoos, if the needles were unsterilized. apparently, i thought all tattoos resulted in AIDS, because i came home in hysterics, thinking that my mom, who had two tattoos, was going to die of AIDS. it took her half an hour to calm me down enough to explain that there were safe ways of getting tattoos done...

serephym

One day, while I was in preschool, I had a sore through. I had been playing outside earlier in the day and remembered there being a lot of ant hills around. before story time, I was telling my friend next to me how my throat hurt and it felt like a swallowed an ant (which I would never intentially do as a child, I wouldn't even eat food off the floor), and the thing was still moving around. Immediately my friend told the teacher that I swallowed an ant. I tried to explain to her that I was describing how my throat felt, not what I actually did, but I couldn't find the right words to explain. Everyone believed that I was a moron who ate bugs.

a few days later I found out from the doctor that the feeling I had was because I had strep throat.

icarusxfemme

i used to belive a fever was a beaver crawling in my head i no right?

poe

when i was very little, I used to believe that people could throw up their heart...my older brothers thought it was a funny practical joke.

Anon

My friends and I believed that if a special ED person would scratch you, you would become special too. (Kinda like Resident Evil)

Special Steve

i use to belive that whenever i had a headache then my head would explode until i was 10

Eryn

I used to think that when I had to go to the doctors to get shots (wich was every other day I had to get like 10 because of a blood thing) was for being a bad little girl and every time a kid was bad, hey had to go get shots. And because my mom always felt bad for me that I had to get them, I thought it was the law that you HAD to! So I would poke myself with a pencil and hoped not to have to go get shots.

Dessy

When I was little and kids would stay out of school for head lice, I thought parents and teachers were saying Head Lights. I thought you grew antennas with head lights on the end of them and thats why they had to stay at home.

Ashley