Poll Thumb Sucking

[Deleted member 8714]

I think I still would have sucked my thumb had my step-dad not taken pictures of me to embarrass me. He showed the photo to everyone, including family friends.

 

[MIKEYDAMEON]

I've sucked my thumb all my life and, yes, I have an open bite, buck teeth (that show even when I close my mouth!) and a large callus on my right thumb. Despite all this I love it too much to stop, though I try not to do it in front of people I know. For me it's like an instant state of meditation and an amazing aid in falling asleep. I think if thumb sucking was socially acceptable there'd be a LOT less smoking.

 

[ElleKaye]

I never did suck my thumb or any fingers (nor did my brother and sister); We also all refused a pacifier. All three of us had a security plush/blanket that even as adults in our 30s/40s, still sleep with

 

[Deleted member 40995]

I never sucked my thumb, but I sucked on my hair, like strands of my hair, for a long time when I was a kid. It was sort of comforting.

 

[whiteraven]

Never.

 

[The Albatross]

(Raising my hand) Thumb sucker who stopped late (hid the behavior later on but remember my parents trying all sorts of things from tabasco or chili oil to nasty tasting "fingernail polish". Come to think of it when I stopped thumb sucking around 11 I was already tying nooses and depressed and was wanting to kill myself but I started cutting.

The cutting stopped at around 16.

The unfortunate result of the thumb sucking was an abnormally high and narrow upper palate (sp?) - it was not fun for a rolfer to remedy that (and it took multiple sessions for like 8 years).

 

[lostforgottensoul]

Yep, I do. From as long as I can remember up to today. Never stopped. I never do it in front of people, generally hiding it, almost always do it when alone and mostly at night when the fear and anxiety is super high. It is a self soothing behavior my therapist says, whom isn't too worried about it at this point in time. I am sure we will work on stopping but for the moment, between other options, this is the safest one.

 

[Deleted member 12723]

I sucked my thumb until I do not recall when I quit. I was forced to sleep with my hands under my pillow. tabasco sauce on my thumb, thumb guard, and tabasco sauce on that. I would chew off the plastic band each night and suck off all of the tabasco sauce, was raided in the middle of the night so they could catch me sucking my thumb. I wore the damn thing that kept on getting tighter and tighter until my grandmother had to cut it off my wrist because it was so tight that it was cutting off my circulation. No more thumb guard anymore and do not remember what happened after that.

 

[Gamergirldelux]

I grew up in a house where the abuse was ongoing. I sucked my thumb until I was 12. I didn't stop by choice--t...

I did the exact same thing I had a blanket that was more of a rope and I sucked my thumb until 13 and I sometimes just cover my mouth with my blankets in bed it's quite comfortable and comforting