Interestingly enough, I sucked my thumb till I was like six years old, and ignored my mother's attempts to make me quit by painting that nasty-tasting stuff on my thumbs because I wasn't keen on being forced and didn't mind the taste enough to comply. I think when I quit it must have been about the point I shifted gears to nail-biting, and I quit that when Mom gave me a little manicure/pedicure set for a present when I was in junior high or thereabouts. Found out that if I had the option of using a nail file to deal with the little snags I'd get (instead of just worrying away at them with my teeth trying to smooth them out until the entire end of my nail got bitten off) I could actually grow them out to a decent length. So now it's just the hangnails I nibble at. And now I knit in OCD fashion, and look for things to do with my hands when I can't be knitting (like, hi, chipping away at my current nail polish job).
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Date: 2007-09-25 07:55 pm (UTC)