When I was little(Around 7).I thought that if you took medcine,and you were not sick.It would make you sick with what it cured.I would try this to get out of school.It never worked.
A childhood belief about being ill

others believed things like this
- I thought Pink's "You make me sick" was "you make me sick, you make me look like a candlestick" LOL— Rice
- I thought pretending I was sick to stay home from school was called cookie not hookie.— Jen
- I used to think that if I was home sick that no one else could go to school either. (it was MY school)— kirk
- When I was little I thought if you were sick the only way to get better was to give it to someone else.— Jen
- I used to believe that doctors could not get sick.Anon
- If you cut or pluck a cats whiskers they could get sick or die.— Paul Adam Trepanier