ATS: Adult Thumb Suckers

(Pictures from thumbsuckingadults.com)

Yeah... look what happens when parents don't make their kids stop sucking their thumbs when they're little babies. It's ridiculous, and who'd've thought.......

Originally, my plan for this week's blog was based on child thumb sucking, but when I saw the site www.thumbsuckingadults.com on my screen, I couldn't avoid the temptation.

Adult thumb sucking. The Unknown American Curse. According to this website, which was based on a newsreport by Extra, an estimated 200,000 American adults still suck their thumbs. Worldwide, it's on a scale in the millions.

So, why do some adults still suck their thumbs? Is it 'cause they're nervous? Is it 'cause they're sad? Is it 'cause they miss their mommy?

"When we were children, [thumbsucking] gave us a lot of pleasure, satisfying the sucking instinct and even possibly compensating for less nurturance than we may have needed but, as we got older, this satisfying behavior became a habit"(thumbsuckingadults.com). There you have it... it's habit from infancy.

It's too bad parents do not make a bigger deal about making their kids stop sucking their thumbs. Thank heavens my mom did, or else I could be looking like one of those ill-fated, social rejects who got their picture stuck on public internet for anyone to see (above).

So, if this hasn't convinced any parents or future parents to watch out for symptoms of thumbsucking in their young or future young, I really don't know what will. This is a problem that too many people are not aware of, and that they most certainly need to know about. So spread the word for the sake of the poor little kids who may have picked up this tendency!