biting my nails

Biting your fingernails leaves sharp little knives inside, that will tear up your colon on the way out, you know. So I was led to believe.

Carole

I used to bite/sometimes swallow my fingernails. I pictured this rounded, pink fleshy walled room with a giant pile of nails in it. Above the pile was a single lightbulb hanging from a chord.

Stormy

My Mom used to tell us that if you bit your fingernails, they would cut a hole in your stomach.

Linda B

When I was really really little I bit my nails and swallowed 'em. One day in first grade my teacher noticed and started yelling things like "SARA SWALLOWING YOUR NAILS WILL GIVE YOU A TUMOR. STOP THAT." And for the longest time I thought the nails would stick to my stomache lining. Just like gum (which, my sixth grade teacher told us the whole truth...).

Also my brother told me that if I continued to bite my nails the evil demons of Satan would devour my soul and stuff. He's five years older so I guess he was about nine. I'm twelve and he's eighteen and nobody's eaten my soul yet.

Sara

my parents told me that when you bit your nails the would cut your insides and die

Pat

When I was in first grade I used to bite my nails (I don't anymore)...My mom's EX Boyfriend told me that if I bit my nails and swallowed the nail it would grow in my stomache and I would explode (of course he said the same things about watermelon seeds), but I still believed him.....maybe that's why I don't bite my nails anymore?

Valerie

My dad when I was younger told me if I keep biting my nails a big wad might come up and I would choke and die.

Bobbie

When I was little and bit my fingernails, my mother told me that they would collect down in my appendix and cause it to burst.

Libby

I used to bite my nails and swallow them and every time I got a sore throat I thought it was all my nail bits that have built up in my throat.

Allie

As a former nail-biter,a childhood friend told me that if I kept biting them,they would stick to the lining of my stomache and I'd need surgery. She swore that her uncle had this happen to him. (What finally mde me quit though was wearing nail polish!)

Robyn

when i was little my sister told me that when i bite my nails it would cut through my skin and i would die!

nn

When I was little, a friend told me that every bitten nail would turn into a diamond during digestion. Well, that same day (in fact during the following days) I... well... after long, stinky, exhaustive examinations of my by-products I had it up to with eating my nails!!

Pops research

i was told that if i kept biting my nails i would grow hairs on my tongue i was 10 yrs old by the way

charlotte anderson

I have bit my nails ever since I was 6. A year after I started, my Grandpa told me that if I kept biting my nails, then they would form inside my stomach and tear it. I stopped for a year or so, but then I started again and I still do. It's not true, but I wish I beleived him though.

Seda

When I was young, my teacher once told me that if I bit my nails and swallowed the bits I'd bitten off that they would go into my liver and cut it to shreds. I believed this for quite a few years!

Nicky

I used to believe that if you bit your fingernails and swallowed them that they would poke holes in your stomach and you would die. Thanks for this belief to those Catholic school nuns!

Ann Y.