Since drinking after someone who was sick meant you might get sick, I used to believe that if you were sick you could drink after someone who was well to get rid of your sickness. This belief landed me a serious case of strep throat. I didn't believe it after that.
A childhood belief about being ill
others believed things like this
- I thought Pink's "You make me sick" was "you make me sick, you make me look like a candlestick" LOL— Rice
- I used to believe that doctors could not get sick.Anon
- When I was little I thought if you were sick the only way to get better was to give it to someone else.— Jen
- If you cut or pluck a cats whiskers they could get sick or die.— Paul Adam Trepanier
- My mom used to tell me that animals with red eyes were sick....rabbits, hamsters, ect....— Umm...
- I used to think that teachers always had to officially announce to the whole class why someone was off sick.Anon