My dad told me, when I was about 3 or 4, that if I sucked my thumb, a garden gnome would come in the night and cut it off. I was terrified of garden gnomes, positive that they came alive after dark. needless to say, i stopped sucking my thumb!
A childhood belief about sucking my thumb
others believed things like this
- My friend told me that if you sucked your thumb, your skin would get all mushy and your thumb would fall off.— Lauren
- my brother stopped me sucking my thumb by telling me the scissor man would come and cut it off
he was evilAnon - 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
- I used to believe that your thumb would come off if you sucked your thumb too much— Anonymous
- my nana told my brother that if he continued sucking his thumb, it would turn into a matchstick. — tracy g