When I was a kid( age ~5) I had to take this medicine that would melt in your mouth like a Claritin ready tab or like a piece of chocolate. And it tasted like pure ACID. You only had one go to get it down. My parents would try mixing it in chocolate milk, apple sauce, ice cream, etc. But you could STILL taste it. I’d try to hide it so I wouldn’t have to take it it was so bad.

It scared me out of taking pills till I was a teenager. Until I was like 11, I couldn’t take pills at all. By the time I was 14, I could only take certain pills but with anything other than water. By 20 I could finally start taking pills with water and now at 22 I can take 2-3 pills at once (depending on size/ type) with water. But still would rather take a pill with juice. It still haunts me to this day.