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As a young child all my cousins were many years older than me and by the time i was 8, they were all in college. They were always talking about "taking shots," but I didn't really realize what it meant except that it involved drinking from a tiny glass. Then, I had a horrible allergic reaction to something and had to go to the doctor. The doctor tole me I would need to get a shot of Benadryl. I smiled back at him assuming he was going to grab a small glass of medicine for me. Imagine my horror when he brought out a needle!
i hate surprises 
When I was little I used to believe that if you take medicine when you're not sick, you'll get sick. (Like, if you take headache medicine you'll get a headache, if you take stomachache medicine you'll get a stomachache, etc.) I believed this until I was 11. To this day I'm still terrified of taking medicine when I don't need it. That's probably a good thing!
Konar
when i was in elementary school i was taught not to "drink and drive" i had no idea that they were talking about alcohol. For years i thought they were talking about any type of liquid, even water!
Brie
When I was little, a slew of "don't drink and drive" campaigns began playing more and more often on the radio and television. I didn't take long before I was interrogating my father, caught red-handed, sipping from his can of pepsi while taking me with him to the grocery store. - seems they left a pretty important detail out of the slogan.
Holly
When I was a child the D.A.R.E. program worked for me (for a few years). My biggest fear as a child was toliet paper in public; I thought that junkies would go around to all the gas stations and put drugs in the toliet paper. I made my mother always keep toliet paper in the car so I didn't have to use the drugged up toliet paper and get addicted.
Michelle
When I was in Kindergarten we were using gluesticks and for some reason I decided to smell mine. Obviously a little confused about "huffing glue", a classmate of mine informed me that because I had sniffed glue I was going to die. The teacher had to call my mom to pick me up because I was so hysterical and when it was time for bed I had both my parents stay in my room with me. It's not easy facing your own mortality at 5 years old.
alive and well
When i was a kid the D.A.R.E. officers came to my school and were telling us all about drugs, and when the cop got to the part about how dealers often give you free samples to get you hooked, I raised my hand and told him I knew that was wrong, because my parents were always complaining about how much pot costs these days...so yeah, the cops came by the house that night, luckily my folks were fresh out, apparently they had just put out their last joint. I had no idea pot was illegal until that night.
2nd generation pothead
I am 27. When I was 17 or 18, my now Father-In-Law convinced me that seeds from marijuana could be popped in the mircowave to make "pot-corn". I tried it and found out otherwise.
D.W.C.
When I was 5 or 6, I found a syringe somewhere(in our garden I think), and my mom told me not to touch them, because they could be dangerous. Not knowing what drugs were, I thought they contained medicine, and medicine was deadly for us if we weren't sick.
Hoppip
When I was in elementary school, all the buses had a sign posted that said "Bring or use drugs--face expulsion." I thought this sign said "Bring or use drugs--face explosion," I guess because I didn't understand about being kicked out of school. So I thought, probably until I was about 12 and re-read the sign, that if you used drugs, your face would explode.
Ka-boom!
I used to believe that being wasted meant feeling really tired.
When I was young, there was a lot of public service advertisements about the danger of sniffing glue - it being addictive, and will cause you to suffocate etc.
I took this to heart so much that when we did arts and crafts at school, i used to hold my breath whenever the kid-friendly paper glue was anywhere near me
I always heard about how you shouldn't do drugs in school, and I always wondered why they didn't just make them illegal if they were so bad for you. I didn't know until I was about 12 that marijuana and such are indeed illegal.
Me and my friend think that Mini Pickles and Orange tic-tacs are drugged!!! We had ate tons of mini pickles and orange tic-tacs and we started acting drunk/high (aka laughing hysterically at everything and saying iGat, Gat apple stylie!" etc)
so to this day we think that pickles are cured in alcohol and tic tacs are orange pills.
iGat!!!!
when i was small i belived my mum was a herion addict because a few times i heard her ask the pharmasist for "herron" which is a brand of mild painkillers
ShannonOfDoom
I used to believe that the pharmacies that said "Drugstore" actually sold illegal drugs, so when my parents went inside to get a disposable camera or something I would be scared to go inside Lol.
Tori
when i was born my mom was a meth addict but when she had me she quit but by the time i was 12 she was hooked again one day i was looking for a lighter (i was a bad kid i was going to smoke some weed with my friends)when i stumble upon this baggy full of meth i was young so i didn't know it was meth i thought it was sugar so i started eating it and well eating meth is the same as smoking it as soon as i realized it wasn't sugar i refilled the baggy with sugar sooner or later my mom notices and well lets say i never ate meth again
young niave or stupid stupid stupid
I thought that to be king or queen or president all you had to do was fill out a job application. Then at school I actually learned about the government system and I was like what the heck my way is better.
Lola
My mum was prescribed steriods by the doctor. Then our teacher tlod us about drugs and ll the different kinds. I was affraid that they would lock my mum up so I told her that we had to run away to americia
Strange Kid
When i was in kindergarten, we had a class on drugs every Tuesday (well by drugs they ment taking medicine when you weren't supposed to. Later that year I spent the night at my grandma's and we went to Fannie Farmer's (the candy store). To me famer sounded like pharmacy and I thought we were going to buy illeagal drugs. I was so scared until we got in there. Then I was happy!
My grandma doesn't do drugs
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