As far as your mother being right: a broken clock is right twice a day. Look at tabloid psychics: "She predicted JFK would be assassinated!" What they don't tell you is she said every single president every year would be assassinated.
Your mom said everything would be terrible, and she tried to come up with big bad things that would suck for you (cold makes a lot of diseases/issues worse, like arthritis). So she picked one that happened to be accurate.
It doesn't necessarily make her right, it just means she chose well of the hysteria-inducing rantings to use. She could have said the cold would make your seizures worse, as well, and the cold would make your X worse, blah blah blah.
Now, if she'd actually had any experience or knowledge-base, then she'd be right. If my mom had said something along those lines, she'd be right: my mom is an RN with 30 years experience, so when she says something medical, I trust her. Now, if my dad, say, starts talking about computers, I take as much salt as I can, because it's not his area of expertise. Or my one uncle, who told me the only way to safely erase a hard drive is to drill a hole in it, because "that's what they said on the TV."
So. Was she actually right, or did she throw enough garbage out that one piece happened to land close to the target? ;)
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Your mom said everything would be terrible, and she tried to come up with big bad things that would suck for you (cold makes a lot of diseases/issues worse, like arthritis). So she picked one that happened to be accurate.
It doesn't necessarily make her right, it just means she chose well of the hysteria-inducing rantings to use. She could have said the cold would make your seizures worse, as well, and the cold would make your X worse, blah blah blah.
Now, if she'd actually had any experience or knowledge-base, then she'd be right. If my mom had said something along those lines, she'd be right: my mom is an RN with 30 years experience, so when she says something medical, I trust her. Now, if my dad, say, starts talking about computers, I take as much salt as I can, because it's not his area of expertise. Or my one uncle, who told me the only way to safely erase a hard drive is to drill a hole in it, because "that's what they said on the TV."
So. Was she actually right, or did she throw enough garbage out that one piece happened to land close to the target? ;)