my mother told me once that the bottle she was dipping my fingers into was embalming fluid used on dead people and if I bit again I would shrivel up and die that was when I was 6 stopped me for a week though and I'm still here.
A childhood belief about biting my nails
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that a street sign that read "Dead End" meant that there were dead people buried there.Anon
- If you suck your thumb it would eventually go black, shrivel up and fall off.— Charlotte
- When ever we went to the gas station, it was to replace the blinker fluid.Anon
- My older brother told me that speed bumps were really dead people covered in cement.— Trina
- I used to think that "cross-eyed" meant that people had X's for eyes, like dead people in cartoons.— Tim
- I used to think dead people are dangerous. — J.G.