I used to chew my fingernails until my older sister told me that I was eating my own bones, and I believed her.
A childhood belief about biting my nails

others believed things like this
- When I was little my sister told me salt was ground up dinosaur bones...I barley ate for a month...— Chandler
- My older sister told me squirrels were poisonous, and I believed her until I was 9.— Jenni
- My girlfriend believed someone who told her that chewing gum was made from dogs bones!— tony
- My friend believed that eating bread crusts or eating mustard will give you curly hair.— Linda from Southern California
- I was told that if you chew your hair you end up with a hairball in your stomach and DIE!!!!!— Cat
- i was told when i was young that if i swollowed gum my stomach would grow teeth to chew it— gammie