I used to suck my thumb all the time as a child. One day, my older sister came home from school and said that her teacher had told her that if you suck your thumb for too long, as an adult, your thumb would swell up and explode. Aahhh!
A childhood belief about sucking my thumb
others believed things like this
- My mom told me that if you suck your thumb, wourms would crawl up out of the ground and eat it up!— Kat
- If you suck your thumb it would eventually go black, shrivel up and fall off.— Charlotte
- My friend told me that if you sucked your thumb, your skin would get all mushy and your thumb would fall off.— Lauren
- I used to believe that your thumb would come off if you sucked your thumb too much— Anonymous
- i thought that if you sucked yerr thumb long enough it would turn green. dont ask why! — jordan
- My mother told me that if I kept sucking my thumb I would grow another one out the side of the first one.Anon