When I was little, I thought that when someone said they were 'allergic' to a food that they just didn't like it, and that you could catch allergies like a cold. My best friend was allergic to eggs, so I decided I must be allergic to them too- at least the runny ones.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to think I was allergic to spoons (what a spoon!)— Sally
- I used to believe that I was allergic to the sun, because whenever I looked at it, I would sneeze.— John 117
- i thought salt made food cold, since pepper made it *hot* — cattiva
- I used to believe that only brown eggs came from chickens. I thought white eggs were made at the store— Destiny
- When I was young, I thought that rice was actually ants eggs! Didn't stop me from eating it though (: -@— Doh!
- When I was a kid, I used to believe that cadbury cream eggs real uncooked eggs in the middle Anon