my dad told me if i kept biteing my nails they will build up in my stomach, it diddnt help, i just stoped swllowing them. i have a weird thing, my nails have to be the same length every day, negative side is, they are too short to cut with a cutter, my teeth do the job well.
A childhood belief about biting my nails

others believed things like this
- when i was 6 my mom told me that if you bit your nails a hand would grow in your stomachAnon
- My Dad told me that biting my nails would result in a large toenail being attached to my stomach lining.— LindaAG
- If you bite your nails, a hand will grow in your stomach.— Miss Laura
- I used to believe that if I bit my finger nails, a hand would grow in my stomach. Anon
- when i was 6 i used to belive if u ate ur toe nails u would grow a foot in ur stomach— chris
- I beleived that if i bit my fingers then the nails in my stomach would soon form a hand and rip up my insides!— Amanda T.