My mom was concerned about my thumb sucking and made every attempt to make me stop sucking it. In shear despiration she told me that it I continued to suck my thumb my thumb would turn black and fall off. Although I was a little frightened I continued to suck my thumb. A couple of nights later I woke up and was tramatized by my BLACK thumb!! I cried all day and prayed saying I would NEVER suck my thumb again if only I could keep my thumb. Years later I learned my black thumb, was only shoe polish!! On the up side I stopped sucking my thumb!
A childhood belief about sucking my thumb
others believed things like this
- 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
- If you suck your thumb it would eventually go black, shrivel up and fall off.— Charlotte
- my mother was able to stop me from sucking my thumb by telling me it would rust and fall off!!— lv
- 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 brother stopped me sucking my thumb by telling me the scissor man would come and cut it off
he was evilAnon