I know this sounds really gross, but I used to think that when you had your tonsils out, the doctors would actually cure your throat open, because I wondered how they would be able to reach them so far down when putting the equipment through your mouth!
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- 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 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
- I thought that when I got older "they" would invent a cure for death and I could live forever.— wishful thinking
- I used to believe that doctors could not get sick.Anon
- i used to think boogers were chewing gum. Gross, i know!— ediop