When I was around 3 my dad took away my pacifier because he said that it would ruin my teeth. I got so mad I started sucking my thumb in public to embarrass him and ruin my teeth and told him I'd never stop until he gave me back my binky. It became a habit, and he was stubborn, so soon I was 10 and still sucking my thumb. He'd put pepper on my thumb, and I'd start loving spicy food, he'd tell my friends and I wouldn't care. Then I was 15, and I didn't even know why I did it, and kept trying to stop, but I'd wake up with my thumb in my mouth. Now I'm 32, and sometimes my wife wakes up giggling because I'm sucking my thumb...
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 when i was 5 that Santa wouldn't come if i kept sucking my thumb. — Traumatized
- 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 nana told my brother that if he continued sucking his thumb, it would turn into a matchstick. — tracy g
- 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