When I was little probably about the age of 4, I needed to go to the doctors for a routine meningitis injection, and as I was sitting in the doctor's waiting room and I asked my mother why I needed to have the injection? She replied by saying "Well, because you bite your nails, you need to have an injection to get rid of all those germs in your belly!" So I went in petrified of the thought of all the germs (which I thought were actual monsters!) so ran into the room to have the injection. And to this day, I haven't bitten my nails since and they are so strong! I thank my mother....but also wonder sometimes what possessed her to think of that?!
A childhood belief about biting my nails
others believed things like this
- If you bite your nails, a hand will grow in your stomach.— Miss Laura
- when i was little my sister told me that when i bite my nails it would cut through my skin and i would die! — nn
- When i was younger i thought germs and bacteria were the same size as me— Tasha
- I was afraid of my grandma because i thought she had germs because she was german!Anon
- That germs came from Germany.— Alicia
- I used to think that germans had germs on them and that's why they were called that— Jessica