I used to think that maybe people had miscounted, and we actually had 11 fingers. I used to lie in bed and carefully count my fingers over and over, to make sure there were actually 10.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- i used to think that biting my nails would make my fingers fall off! ;)— Cassandra
- when i was a kid i believed i could make things happen just by snapping my fingers like in mary poppins!!Anon
- I thought your fingers would grow back if they got cut off— Nate
- i used to believe that polishing your nails also consisted of painting your fingers. Anon
- When I was a kid, I slept with my fists balled up because I thought if I didn't, E.T. would eat my fingers. — Brian
- 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.