bad habits

I used to believe…

my parents told me that when i bite my nails, it would cause an incurable disease that would never go away. the symptoms would be vomiting and diarreah (at the same time!), poor eyesight, loss of memory, and sterility. i stopped.

I used to believe…

When I was little I picked my nose all the time. My sister hated it, so she told me that picking your nose causes "finger cancer." I stopped picking my nose right then and there and believed her until, years later, I told my friend about it. She laughed at me and told my whole fifth grade class what an idiot I was!

I used to believe…

My sister and parents were constantly trying to get me to stop sucking my thumb years ago. I used to believe when they said 'Sonya, stop sucking your thumb' it meant they wanted me to suck my big toe instead. It never tasted right.

I've always sucked my thumb (I'm 13 now), and for a while I thought that when you sucked your thumb some sort of something in your saliva was slowly eating away at your skin.

Actually, I'm not convinced that's not true. I mean, why else do you get those cuts?

I used to believe…

When I was about 16 I had told my mom that some kids at school smoked, and she told me that I never wanted to smoke, because when the tobacco was in the field birds would poop on it and that stayed in the cigarettes. I was so disgusted that I never tried to smoke and I got a few of my friends to quit as well.

I used to believe…

When I was real little and used to pick my nose I would cover what I was doing with my other hand, I convinced myself no one could see, until one day my dad asked me why I was digging for gold, I realized they could tell what I was doing.

I used to believe…

In Kindergarten i believed that if you sucked on your thumb it'd shrink and one day end up all shrivelled and small.

I used to believe…

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.

I used to believe…

When I was a child, I use to believe that when you died. God would make you watch a video of your whole life - On a big screen in front of the world and everyone would see ALL that you did. So I would only pick my nose under the blankets becuase I also believed that under the blankets was the only place you were safe.

I used to believe…

When I was young, I used to believe that if I picked my nose, my head would cave in !

I used to believe…

In prescool, i had the bad habit of picking my nose and eating my boogers. my teacher told me that boogers were dirt and that's what i was eating. I told her i didn't care, as long as it tasted good.

i used to believe that if u picked your nose u would pull your brain out. LOL

I used to believe…

My mum used to tell me if you accidently swallowed a bit of your nail it would go down inside you and make your appendix explode. I soon discovered this wasnt true and carried on biting my nails.

I used to believe…

when i sucked muy thumb my grandad said that my thumb will become smaller

I used to believe…

My grandma told me that if I didn't stop, my stomach would get really big, then it would explode. I believed her until I got in the 8th grade and studied the digestive tract.

I used to believe that if you pick your nose while driving or in the car with someone, if the car stops fast your finger will go all the way up your nose and get stuck. then you'll die for damaging your brain.