When I was 6, my dad went into hospital for gall stones. My 6-year-old hearing perceived this as "Gold" stones, and I spent the next 3 days telling my friends how we'd be rich when the doctor got these gold nuggets out of my dad.
A childhood belief about being ill

others believed things like this
- i believe that using gold give electric shock at the time of lightning.so i didnot wear gold when rain starts.— asi18
- I used to belive that there was gold in my nose because pepole would always say that i was "diggin' for gold"!— addicted nose picker
- I used to beleive that if you swolled a tablet whole you would get kidney stones— kaye
- I was sure that Led Zeppelin was the lead singer of the Rolling Stones.— dave
- I used to wonder why people didn't use his first name when they spoke of McJagger of the Rolling Stones.— silly me
- that the bears which live in the cracks between paving stones are Russian— jonah fonder