When I was younger, I would always suck my thumb. Once my brother told me it would shrivel up and fall off when i got older, but i kept sucking it until i was 8!
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 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 brother stopped me sucking my thumb by telling me the scissor man would come and cut it off
he was evilAnon - 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