When i was little i used to suck my thumb so to scare me my parents told me if you suck your thumb you will blow up like a balloon...so one time on a bus i went up to a very pregnant lady and said "I KNOW WHAT YOU"VE BEEN DOING!!" my mother was mortified!
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
- If you suck your thumb it would eventually go black, shrivel up and fall off.— Charlotte
- 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
- I used to believe that your thumb would come off if you sucked your thumb too much— Anonymous