i am 15 and just gave up sucking my thumb (haven't done it for about 2 weeks now) and the ownly reason i stopped was because i was told that if i didn't that in a few years my teeth would end up sticking right out of my mouth!
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I loved to chew things as a youngster - shirts, fingernails, you name it. At one point, I went on this hair-chewing spree - the ends of my hair were in my mouth all the time. My aunt, a nurse, told me that if I kept on chewing my hair, it would all get stick somewhere in my stomach and plug up my stomach hole. Even after two years of biology, I still can't figure out if she was lying or telling me the truth...
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my brother (10) still believes that if you stick your finger to far up your nose you can touch your brain
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I used to think that tobacco was the smoke that stayed inside of the cigarettes until you lit it and the smoke came out.
I used to think that inside a cigarette there are four or five filters in a row that are burnt when smoking. (The tobacco shelfs at shops had transparent bags of filters for roll-your-own cigarettes.) I used to think that people roll their own cigarettes so that they can adjust the lenght of the cigarette by choosing how many filters they use.
I was told that there is nothing good about smoking tobacco. Thus, it did not appear to me that smoking mildly relaxes and alters mood, neither did I know about the addictive potential. Thus, I thought that people smoke because they either do not know that it is bad for you, or alternatively that they are inherently evil, and consequently do things that are bad.
i used to believe that if i would bite my fingernails little animals would come out and take my tongue off, and one time i lost as tooth and thought the animal came out, but it wasz just my dog:-D
I used to suck my thumb and my friend told me if I keep doing that then my thumb would disappaer. Didnt stop me sucking it though, I always thought of how cool it would be to see your own thumb disappear. I was a weird kid.
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My mom told me if I picked my nose, I would get cancer.
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yeah i used to pick my nose and eat it. so my parents told me if i kept doing it i would get an exotic disease where your throat gets so dry you cant swallow any boogers OR food. i stopped.
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When I was a child, my father used to say, "Don't pick your nose, or your bum will fall off". This was a good deterrent for about a week... Then I picked my nose (by accident), nothing happened & I figured out that my father was either clueless, or just a liar!
I still pick my nose!!!
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My mum used to tell me that if I picked my nose, I would poke my brain and I won't be as smart as I should be when I was older :)
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When i was little i used to suck my thumb so to scare me my parents told me if you suck your thumb you will blow up like a balloon...so one time on a bus i went up to a very pregnant lady and said "I KNOW WHAT YOU"VE BEEN DOING!!" my mother was mortified!
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well my mom still tells me this and i am a teen that if if kept biting my nails i would get SKIN CANCER!
but i still couldn't stop now i have braces and i can't bite them anymore so my nails got longer. then i started 2 pick at them and they started 2 get shorter now my mom is mad at me 4 pickin at them
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My mums boyfriends thumb got chopped off by a chainsaw when he was cutting down a tree so when we first met him he told me his thumb fell off because he used to suck it. Then everytime i sucked my thumb he wud wave his thumb in the air and eventually made me stop
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My dad's uncle lost the top part of his index finger in an accident years back, right below the first knuckle. He used to tell my sister and I that if we kept picking our noses, our fingers would rot off - his finger was the proof.
Needless to say, we stopped picking our noses.
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when i was eight i would stay at my baby-sitter's house when my parents had to work. and one night i slept over at her house and she thought that i picked my nose and i told her that i didn't but she didn't believe me and she told me that when boogers leave your nose they turn into monsters and that the booger monster comes to get you. I was afraid to blow my nose after that.
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When i was little i sucked my thumb and my mum said if i didn't stop it i would have teeth like a bunnys. But i never actually stopped sucking my thumb! so here i am now at the age of 13 about to get braces! (i still suck my thumb though)
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When I was young I thought that if I picked my nose at night and the booger was left out in view monsters that ate boogers would come. I had to make sure my booger was in the garbage in another room.
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my mum said that as i bit my nails i would end uop biting all of my fingers off