My parents did a bad job explaining why fingernails, etc. grew back when you cut them...so I truly believed that if I cut off a finger it would grow back...don't worry I never tried....
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- i used to believe that if i bit my fingernails then a finger would grow in my stomach— polly
- I used to believe that if my finger was ever cut off, it would grow back.— Chrissy
- When I was a kid I thought if I bit my finger off and swallowed it it would pop back into place— Mike
- When I was little, I believed my parents really had eyes in the back of their head.— Tera
- I used to believe that if your arm got cut off it would heal/grow back.Anon
- I used to believe that after I cut my stuffed animals hair that it really grew back! — Kristy