Why is it, that when we were young, did we suck our thumbs?
Was it because of the taste of whatever our last meal was?
Was it because of the way our thumbs bend that it fits perfectly behind your teeth on the roof of your mouth?
Or was it just a sense of comfort? We had been doing it all our lives and whenever we were in a new place that's what we'd do.
We were never sure what made us suck our thumbs but my best would have probably been comfort.
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awww...
I think, since the thumb sets apart from the rest of the animal kingdom, we are just protecting them by keeping them in our mouths.
Grandma put hot sauce on my thumb to try and get me to stop.
Didn't work.
But of course I don't anymore.
Stopped a few weeks ago.
Aw, I love thumb-sucking babies! Love how they can comfort themselves.
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