I thought that you could only catch a cold in the winter. I knew that germs made you catch colds and that being cold alone doesn't make you catch a cold, but because it was called a "cold", I thought you could only catch one in winter. Then, Dad caught a cold in summer and explained that you could actually catch colds in the summer. P.S. he's fine now.
A childhood belief about being ill
others believed things like this
- I used to think if you caught a cold during summer, it was called a "hot".— Brandon Campbell
- I thought cold sores, were really called cole slaw!!— kathryn
- i used to set up traps to try and catch santa. i never caught him. — santa trap
- i thought salt made food cold, since pepper made it *hot* — cattiva
- 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