biting my nails

When I was 10 1/2 (still am now.) My mom' and dad tried to get me to stop bitting my nails.They tried "no one will like you if u keep biting your nails,Miley!" remark. they even tried "if u keep bitting ur fingers, you will be hurting little faries under there that help ur nail grow" I didn't belive in fairies at that time.so they made me get a lower retainer.I do not bite them anymore!

Miley

My Granny used to tell my sister that if she bit her fingernails and swallowed them that they would somehow get around her heart and give her a heart attack. My sister stopped biting her nails after that!

Dana

I use to think the dirt under you nails was food. And the different smells from the crud was different and higher grade dirt food. I as live on a farm and my father watches cows and i thought he would milk bulls.

MATTY STUART

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 used to believe that if you bit your nails, your fingers would fall off. Also I trought that if you picked your nose, your brains ( if you had any!!) would fall out your nose!!!
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Lola***Rose

When i was younger my mom told me if i bite my nails and eat them that they would stay in my stomach and become a great big ball and i would have to have surgery to take it out.

( trust me i dont bite my nails anymore)

Renee

I loved to chew things as a youngster - shirts, fingernails, you name it. At one point, I went on this hair-chewing spree - the ends of my hair were in my mouth all the time. My aunt, a nurse, told me that if I kept on chewing my hair, it would all get stick somewhere in my stomach and plug up my stomach hole. Even after two years of biology, I still can't figure out if she was lying or telling me the truth...

blur

My mom told my sister and I that if you bite your fingernails you would get worms. I still don't bite my nails.

OCD

My mom used to tell me that if I bit my nails, I would later look like the Venus of Millo. I went on biting them...
But then, I had to find a job.

Emma

When I was little my mom would tell me not to bite my nails because I had worm eggs under them, and I believed her.

Amy Szymanski

When i was younger my grandpa would tell me that if i bit my nails then they would attach themselves to the lining of my stomach and make me very sick. He told me he had a friend that bit her nails and she became very sick and was hospitalized. When the doctor went to operate her stomach was full of nails and he couldnt help her so she died. Now I am 16 and I know that is not true. I wish i would have believed it because i still bite my nails.

Jennifer

I used to belive that if you bit your nails, your body didnt like it so it would grow your hands on your feet instead from then on.

Krissty

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

I use to believe that if I kept biting my nails they would all fall out. my parents had a friend that somehow did not have any finger nails and they would show me his hands to put the scare in me and say he lost his nails because he wouldn't stop biting them. even though I believed them for some reason it didn't work all that good cause I still was biting them but maybe not as often.

Jane

I bite my nails but my auntie tells me that they will stay like that forever so I stopped. My cousin still bites hers and hers have stopped growing now! spooky or what!!!

Soph

When I was little my daycare told me that if I bit my nails when I was nervous I would get worms in my stomach. I believed that for like 3 or 4 years and then one day I told my friends and they laughed at me and told me I was funny.

Amanda

i used to believe that tha if I had any body part stisking out of the bed it would get me

strait sleeper

When i was little, i bit my nails. My parents tried everything they could to stop me. They once said my fingers would all fall off. I believed them for three months, until we had a substitute at school, one day. He pulled out a giant jar of nails and said that he stopped biting his nails when he was 47, and these are all of them!

The man had all of his fingers!

I started biting my nails day and night, saving as much as i could, and i still do.

Lecia

my mom told me biting your nails is so bad if you keep doing it you will bit your hand off!

jenna

when i was about 7 i was biting my nails and my mom told me if i kept biting my nails the nails would grow through and out of my belly button abnd around that area...it worked for awhile but then i completely stopped when i started babysitting (changing diapers...yuck never bit my nails after that)

Anon