I used to think if you sucked on your thumb, it would grow bigger and bigger because it absorbed all your saliva. My mother told me this, and it scared me enough that I never did it.
A childhood belief about sucking my thumb
others believed things like this
- When I was a child, I used to think that if I lied my nose would grow bigger.Anon
- 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
- iwas told that if u cry on your birthday you would not get any bigger 4 a whole year— steve
- That 1/4 was bigger than 1/2Anon
- I used to believe that your thumb would come off if you sucked your thumb too much— Anonymous