I refused to suck my thumb when I was younger. I thought what I would suck my thumbnail off and I would bleed to death.
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
- My mom told me that if you suck your thumb, wourms would crawl up out of the ground and eat it up!— Kat
- when I was little i was scared of vacuum cleaners. I thought they would suck me inside of them.— Julie
- When I was 5 I was terrible scared of vacuum cleaners, because I thought it can suck me.— ahhhhhhhhh
- I used to believe that when I started menstruating, I would bleed to death from losing too much blood.— Debbie
- I used to believe that the toilet would suck me down if I flushed it.— :-)