In the early 60's, when I was a toddler, my mom tried in vain to get me to stop sucking my thumb. Eventually she must of gotten pretty desperate because she told me that if I kept it up, that I would turn black! Well I truly believe in "what goes around comes around" because some time after kicking the habit at about age 3, this came back around to my unsuspecting mom....I'm told that while standing in line at a store, I stood staring at another child about my age, who happened to be black, and said to my mom's horror: "ah ha! you've been sucking your thumb!" Thankfully, this fear tactic my mom thought to be innocent taught my mom a tough lesson, so from then on, all jokes aside, I was taught to honor the truth about all of the different cultures in our world!
A childhood belief about sucking my thumb
others believed things like this
- my nana told my brother that if he continued sucking his thumb, it would turn into a matchstick. — tracy g
- 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 - If you suck your thumb it would eventually go black, shrivel up and fall off.— Charlotte