I used to believe that every time i sucked my thumb it would loose all its blood, and in the end rot. I was 5 at the time, and dad was quite desperate for me to stop, when he told me this story. I stopped sucking my thumb at once, and tried various ways to get more blood into my thumb, as I'd been sucking it since I was a baby. I can't believe how stupid i was!
A childhood belief about sucking my thumb
others believed things like this
- my brother stopped me sucking my thumb by telling me the scissor man would come and cut it off
he was evilAnon - my mother was able to stop me from sucking my thumb by telling me it would rust and fall off!!— lv
- 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 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 nana told my brother that if he continued sucking his thumb, it would turn into a matchstick. — tracy g