I used to believe that while I was sucking my thumb I could make it taste like anything that I could imagine, if I just thought hard enough. I remember sitting in front of the TV watching Saturday morning cartoons, with my blanket in my lap, sucking my thumb and how it made my spit taste wonderfully like orange juice and chocolate and black cherry jello and all the other nice things I could think of. It was an incredible epiphany and I felt very powerful. I started to wonder if I could do other things that way too, like flying or turning invisible.
I could hardly wait for my parents to wake up so that I could astonish them with my discovery. It would change the world -- if everyone realized this was possible, no one would have to starve to death ever again. They could just be perfectly happy by sucking their own thumb.
A childhood belief about sucking my thumb
others believed things like this
- My mother told me that if I kept sucking my thumb I would grow another one out the side of the first one.Anon
- My mother told me when i was 5 that Santa wouldn't come if i kept sucking my thumb. — Traumatized
- my brother stopped me sucking my thumb by telling me the scissor man would come and cut it off
he was evilAnon - my mother was able to stop me from sucking my thumb by telling me it would rust and fall off!!— lv
- my nana told my brother that if he continued sucking his thumb, it would turn into a matchstick. — tracy g
- My friend told me that if you sucked your thumb, your skin would get all mushy and your thumb would fall off.— Lauren