My mother used to tell us that taking medicine that we didn't need would cause us to get the sickness it was meant to cure. Like, drinking cough syrup when you didn't have a cough would cause you to *get* a cough.
A childhood belief about being ill
others believed things like this
- I used to think that when doctors didn't want to prescribe you medicine, they'd give you a gazebo.— JD
- I used to beleive that if we didn't spray the ants, there would be hundreds of them in my house taking over.— Rob
- I used to want to be a doctor when I grew up, because doctors never die, as they can cure themselves.— Stuart
- I thought that socialism just meant being social and didn't get why anyone would be against it!— Olcasgean
- i used to believe that mother and father didn't sleeped— yacine.tah du 91
- Up until I was 17 I thought that 'no outlet' signs meant that the steet didn't have any streetlights.— Kelsey