I used to be terribly afraid of getting bitten by a mosquito because I thought that was how you caught Meningiococcal disease.
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that all old people got the disease "OLD TIMERS DISEASE" Instead of alzheimers disease :D— MollyJohnson
- I used to think that Alzheimers disease was called Old Timers Disease.— Justin
- That Alzheimer's Disease was Old Timer's Disease.— Todd K
- I used to believe that mosquito larvae were baby hammerhead sharks. Made the ditch a very dangerous place!— Karen
- I thought there was a disease "Bigpox" that was like Smallpox only more horrible..— Xenomorph
- When I was 10, I thought that nausea was called Lack-O-Candy Disease. My mom made it up— Teddybearhaha