My mom told me that if you suck your thumb, wourms would crawl up out of the ground and eat it up!
A childhood belief about sucking my thumb
others believed things like this
- If you suck your thumb it would eventually go black, shrivel up and fall off.— Charlotte
- I used to believe that when you visited a graveyard, the ground would suck you in and that is how you died.— Megan
- 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
- 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