Because people say that candy is bad for you, I thought that meant you shouldn't eat it while sick, even if it was just a cold.
A childhood belief about being ill

others believed things like this
- I thought that the barber sign meant candy because I thought it looked like a candy cane.Anon
- I thought if you took some candy and buried in the yard, you would grow a candy tree.Anon
- I used to think that the word blurb was a noise that people made when being sick. Bluuuggghhh.— Natasha
- 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 sex meant love and that having sex meant the two people would live happily ever after.— amy
- In the song "Let's get it on", I seriously thought they were saying "candy on Crome". — Kate P