When commercials for medicines said if you were nursing or pregnant you should not take that medicine, I would always get scared that my mom would die because she couldn't take any medicines since she was a nurse.
A childhood belief about adverts

others believed things like this
- I used to think that I nursing home was a place were mothers would take their new born babies to feed them— Katie
- i thought that since my dr's name was "Dr. Washer" that meant my nurse's name was "Dryer" ... i know, its sad— mekare
- I used to honestly think that Smarties were medicine.Anon
- I thought Tic-Tacs were medicine until I was 11 years old.Anon
- I used to think that when doctors didn't want to prescribe you medicine, they'd give you a gazebo.— JD
- I thought Viagra was an allergy medicine for a really long time.Anon