My birth certificate has my feet print on either side of my mother's right thumb print. Before I could read, my mother told me that I had been born with an extra toe and that the "thumb" print was really that of my extra toe which had been removed shortly after birth.
A childhood belief about general
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 friend told me that if you sucked your thumb, your skin would get all mushy and your thumb would fall off.— Lauren
- my mother was able to stop me from sucking my thumb by telling me it would rust and fall off!!— lv
- When i was little i used to think that a birth mark was the place on the body where you came out of the mother— bipbop
- I used to believe that your thumb would come off if you sucked your thumb too much— Anonymous