I used to suck my thumb and rub my top lip at the same time. My mom told me that this would stimulate the hairs to grow and I'd end up with a moustache - not nice on girls (or men come to think of it)!
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
- i was told that if i kept biting my nails i would grow hairs on my tongue i was 10 yrs old by the way— charlotte anderson
- My mother told me that if I kept sucking my thumb I would grow another one out the side of the first one.Anon
- If you suck your thumb it would eventually go black, shrivel up and fall off.— Charlotte
- I used to think a mustache grew out of your nose hairs. I tried to let mine grow, but it didn't work. — Barry
- I used to believe that nose hairs were the other end of hairs on top of your head.— Walker