When I was like four, I always got sick and when my Mom wanted me to take my medicine, she used to say things like it will help my bloodsells and my stomach and different body parts and she would always say that my blood cells were at war with germs and it sounded like they were alive how she explained it so I used to belive my insides were alive and the food in my belly would talk to eachother and when I took medicine or ate something healthy, I would look down at my stomach cheering for my blood cells!

Dessy

One time when I was young I lost my voice and my older brother told me that I had to look for it so I looked all over the house for it but I couldnt find it.
When I woke up the next morning my voice was back, I had thought that while I was sleeping my voice had found me and decided to come back to me.

Anon

When I was young I used to believe for some reason that being asthmatic meant you were born with no lungs.

Anon

My little brother used to believe that he couldn't touch anything pink, or it would cause an incurable rash where it touched. The only way to prevent the rash would be to "wipe off" the pink with blue ASAP.

Melissa

I used to believe that an amputated limb would grow back. I remember thinking that it must be a very slow process when I overheard that a friend of my parents who only had one foot had lost it several years before.

Flo

When i was small i use to think that if anyone cut you and you bled and couldn't make it stop, then you would bleed to death until your body turned flat... i later realized human beings had bones and they would never turn flat even if they were to bleed to death.

W3ndi

When I was six or seven I read in the paper that a girl who had been struck by a car had an injured face. I asked my Dad what injured meant. He said "Oh if you lose a leg or an arm or something"
For ages I kept thinking of that poor girl with no face.

Janet

I used to believe that a yeast infection was something you could get from eating "bad" bread.

Lauren

That hospitals were like prisons, torture chambers, or worse. I based this on adults' reactions to news that someone was in the hospital.

Mashplum

When I was little my mum would tell me that if I took medicine and I didnt need it I would get the illness it was prescribed for. Eg. If I took headache tablets and I didnt have a headache I would get one. So I was always very careful when I told mum I was sick.

Joey

i used to belive that when the doctor opened his mouth and went aaaaaa i thought he was trying to eat me.

matt

I was a hypochondriac when I was a child. I was always convinced that I had some kind of health problem, and would frequently demand that my mother do something about my imaginary ailments.

When I was around 9, whenever I came to my mother complaining of a stomachache, she would give me some dark green "miracle medicine," which she said had been discovered by natives in the rainforest. It always worked! I would take it, lie down and feel better in minutes. I even remember telling her that I wanted to write a thank-you letter to the village where the medicine was discovered.

I later found out that this "medicine" was water and green food coloring.

Kim

When I was about six, I was told about someone getting their tonsils taken out. I asked my mom how they did that, and she said, "Well, the doctor just goes in and takes them out." I thought that the doctor somehow shrinks down really small, climbs in your mouth, removes the tonsils, and comes back out and gets back to his normal size! I finally figured out the truth about two years later!

Beth

On my 6th birthday, I remember very clearly waking up early in the morning, before school and before my parents were up, and watching cartoons with my younger brother. I noticed little itchy bumps on my legs and arms; I thought they were mosquito bites (in the winter.) For some reason I thought that peanut butter was a remedy for itching. So I went upstairs and got the peanut butter and started putting it on the bumps on my legs. I soon had a lot of peanut butter on my legs and the carpet. My mom came in and I explained what I was doing. She told me gently that peanut butter is not a treatment for mosquito bites, and further, there are no mosquitos in November.

I was so disappointed when she told me I had to stay home from school because I had the chicken pox!

Anon

I used to think that when you got run over by a car it flattened you like a peice of paper and people hed to blow air into you ot get you back to normal.

Aubrey

I used to believe that when you had a blood transfusion, all your blood was removed and then replaced by new blood.

kittycat

I went to boarding school when I was 11 and on the first tour of the place, I was shown round the sick bay. There were notices up stating surgery times... I almost threw up I was so scared! Once my Mum left me there it was clear that they had veto over me to operate on me whenever they liked, they could amputate all my limbs and sell them to the zoo if they wanted to! It was three years before I went down there for an illness - I treated everything myself, with hot ribena.

Anon

When I was in elementary school, the school nurse would do lice checks about once a school year and I always thought that instead of saying "head lice" everyone was saying "headlights". So I always thought to myself, "how silly these people are, you don't have to do a special check to see that I don't have headlights on my head."

Deirdre

When I was little I thought that the AIDs virus would come and get me in my sleep if I breathed it in and I would die a horrible painful death and green fungus would grow all over my face, so I fell asleep way under my covers at the end of the bed, breathing through the sheets hoping that the AIDs virus wouldn't find me.

Anon

I used to believe that the reason you washed a cut with water was so tha the water could seep into your body and replace the blood you lost.

Anon