being ill

When I was younger, my mom told me that my neighbor Laura had chicken pox, and not to get near her because she might give them to me.

I pictured Laura walking around with fried chicken, offering to everyone she met on the street to try and get them sick.

Laurie

I used to confuse cancer and astma. I said to everybody: 'My brother has cancer!'

marijke

When i was little and i would get hurt i would go up to my mom and tell her that i broke my arm. She would say "hunny can you move". Well yeah mom. I found out later that it would just hurt really bad when you fell down.

Shannon

i used to belive that you got chicken pocks from sleeping on the floor because i slept onthe floor one night and woke up with the chicken pocks.

Anon

I remember seeing some PSAs on Nickelodean about aids and how nobody was in risk and the only way to get it was through sharing blood. I thought to myself "why would two people cut their fingertips and touch each other's fingertips together?" Now i know.

Anon

When I was about 8, I lost a tooth at a friends house. She told me if I did not stop the bleeding I could die. Being a stupid little kid I believed her.

Dara

I used to believe that if any two HIV-negative men engage in gay sex, both of them will get AIDS.

MDC

My cousin used to tell me that if I had slept in someone else sleeping bag I'd get AIDS, believed it too.

Dana

I must have been about 7 years old when my mum told me that my dad had a gall stone. When I asked how he got it she replied that he had swallowed some grit while digging in the garden. She totally denies it now.

Mindful

Up until I was about 13, I thought gangrene made ur skin turn green - I also thought it was spelled "gang green".

Alen

I used to want hemmoriods so I could use a "float tube" in the tub and have a cushy toilet seat like my dad.

Tami

When i was little i used to belive that there was this man or woman that my parents would take me to and see me naked sometimes and did all this stuff and payed alot of attention to me was like my second dad and then when i was 4 i found out that was my doctor!!

m&ms

When I was little my cousin told me that if I didn't lick my blood after I got cut, I woudl eventually run out of blood and die, so I did...for at least 3 years before my mom told me the truth.

Christina

Well, this is an entry for the kids I used to babysit. I ordered some purple colored contacts for fun a few years back. During the weeks in between their arrival, I told two children that a scary new disease was going around. It was deadly, and the only visual symptom was having purple eyes. A few week later I had to explain to crying children that I was joking. Whoops.

Charlotte

I used to believe that the boogey man made you sick and when you broke a bone some invisible man would come and snap your bone.

Lexi Long

I used to believe that when you were sick that you took medicine. Well i thought, the pills i take, where do they go? So i came up with a story that the ones who work pile up inside the right leg and the bad ones lined up the left leg. Then i thought, what happens if they get to the top of my mouth? Do i just swoosh off a few and then close my mouth back? Weird, i know!!!

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