It was either my Mother or Grandmother who told me when I was very young that if I didn't stop sucking my thumb, it would make my thumbs go flat. They did! Of course, it may just be genetics, but it still didn't stopped me and now I'm 26! Who needs round thumbs anyway?
A childhood belief about sucking my thumb
others believed things like this
- my mother was able to stop me from sucking my thumb by telling me it would rust and fall off!!— lv
- 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 brother stopped me sucking my thumb by telling me the scissor man would come and cut it off
he was evilAnon - my nana told my brother that if he continued sucking his thumb, it would turn into a matchstick. — tracy g
- When I was young, I thought that rice was actually ants eggs! Didn't stop me from eating it though (: -@— Doh!