When I was small, someone with a cold said they had a frog in their throat. Up until I was about 12, I thought that when you got a cold little frogs lived on your tonsils :3.
A childhood belief about being ill

others believed things like this
- Ever since I was 8, i never ate chili because i thought it ws cold.— James
- Until I was about eight I thought that there had been actual fighting during the Cold War.— Miss Taken
- I thought cold sores, were really called cole slaw!!— kathryn
- i was scared to fart outside in cold weather because i thought u would be able to see the steam.— xJeNneSceNcEx
- I thought that cold was an actual, positive force and not just the absence of heat— terberous
- I always thought that everytime it got cold or snowed, the plant Neptune came closer to earth.— Andy T