I thought that one alternative to having your tonsils out, although I correctly had the feeling that the doctors would just do it through your mouth, was that they would actually cut your throat open.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if I slept with my mouth open that spiders would crawl in there and live in my stomachAnon
- my brother told me that if i ride my bike with my mouth open i will swallow my tounge. Anon
- All through life, I always thought the lungs were located in your throat. I'm 25.— thelungs,man
- I used to believe that doctors could not get sick.Anon
- I used to want to be a doctor when I grew up, because doctors never die, as they can cure themselves.— Stuart
- I used to think doctors were male and nurses were female.Anon