Man, somehow I forgot how absolutely ridiculous people are on the subject

[conuly]

of thumbsucking. If you bring it up, people suddenly get amazingly hysterical and self-righteous for absolutely no good reason. Of all the bad habits a person can have, this seems pretty low-key, but wow.

I had managed to forget that people have no sense of perspective when it comes to this one niche part of policing other people's bodies and behavior. )

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Comments

[kareina]

When I was little the adults in my mom's hometown told us kids not to suck our thumbs, that Aunt Dorothy used to suck her thumb, but then she sucked it right off! I never really believed them, since Aunt Dorothy had a scar across where her thumb used to be with clear stitch marks, and I was convinced that if one sucked the thumb off there wouldn't be that sort of scar (I don't recall if I had any opinions on what sort of scar, if any there should be, but I knew it wouldn't look like that). However, neither did I suck my thumb...