It Sucks
Sometime between when I was the age of nought and one, my mother got so sick of me crying she stuck my thumb in my mouth.

From that moment there was no turning back, and in my thirties I still suck my thumb privately.

I have never told a soul and no one has ever seen me, not even girlfriends past or present. I simply have to catch time alone to do it, or position myself out of people's view when watchina movie or whatever. But the thought of doing it absent-mindedly in public or at work is mortifying.

To be honest, I've never really tried to stop. It's always there see so what's the point?

I'm surprised that no one else has coughed up to this one. Or is it really just me?
(mrbenn, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 13:23, 9 replies)

My 39 year old sister still sucks her thumb.
Plus it's discernably thinner than her other thumb because of all the sucking.
( girlinthehole, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 13:26, closed)

catch my girlfriend doing it all the time
normally sobbing over some shit on the tv, xfactor is a big one. Its cute though so she gets away with it
(Tibble off the crack since, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 14:36, closed)

Do you realise...
... that you'll be doing it when you're asleep?

What if the person you're with wakes up and notices?
(dxg, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 14:52, closed)

And what if one night when not sleeping alone you dream you're sucking your thumb
and you wake up and it's not your thumb? Not a thumb at all?
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 15:11, closed)

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i had to stop sucking my fingers when I had braces at 17, otherwise I;d still be doing it at 32. I do sucks my thumb when I'm upset sometimes, though
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 15:04, closed)

Don't worry
I've known a few people do this into adult-hood, not least the current Mrs G - still sucking away at 45! And yes...
(Che Grimsdale Best before:, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 15:40, closed)

My sister sucked her thumb
until age 33. She gave it up when she decided to have her teeth straightened (which had been displaced by her thumb always being in her mouth).

Two years on, she now has nice straight teeth and has kicked the habit.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 16:39, closed)

Not me
Nah, I have a dummy instead. Yum.
(DSV has been good since, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 21:39, closed)