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You too!? I thought I was the only one! My shirts would be sopping wet in the front and would all have tooth holes from my chewing them, I'd go through a shirt
by Balgair 7y ago
You too!? I thought I was the only one!
My shirts would be sopping wet in the front and would all have tooth holes from my chewing them, I'd go through a shirt a week nearly.
I wasn't on any meds but my teacher at the time would dole out punishments regularly to me in class. I've put 2 and 2 together before, but I never knew I wasn't alone in this behaviour! Thanks for commenting, this really helped me.
- soulofmischief 7y agoAll those poor buttons. And then I come to find out that one popular tip for reducing dry mouth in dry environments is literally sucking on a button. I wonder how common it really is in young children. Certainly seemed I was the only one dealing with it at several different schools. Is it too late to form a club? Similarly, I had issues with scratching my nose in public, nail-biting, hair-pulling, picking at scabs, sucking my thumb at night... punished and beaten all the time for it, and some particularly nasty teachers would try to make a public example... come to find out in my adulthood that I have a literal disorder, body-focused repetitive behavior (BFRB) syndrome, which is related to OCD and bipolar disorder and ADHD which I also deal with, and heavily exacerbated and permanently worsened by my forced exposure to intense medication.