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What are some weird childhood habits you used to have that you grew out of?

When I was younger I used to chew on my hair and shirt collar. No idea why, but in retrospect it was really gross. The tips of my hair would get all wet and slobbery (ad did my shirt collar). Thankfully I just chewed and didn't eat my hair. Eventually my parents got me a short haircut so I grew out of it.

And only in the past 2-3 years have I been able to stop my habit of chewing my nails off. That was a hard won battle!

Edited 2016-04-19 00:00 (UTC)

Omg I chewed on my shirt collar nonstop as a kid! I'd forgotten. What a weird thing to do

ETA: I also still bite my nails....but fortunately not my shirt anymore.

Edited 2016-04-19 00:17 (UTC)

Wow. I've never met someone else who did that! I wonder why we did such a weird thing.

Re: Childhood habits you (thankfully?) grew out of?

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Re: Childhood habits you (thankfully?) grew out of?

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Re: Childhood habits you (thankfully?) grew out of?

sparrow_lately - 2016-04-19 00:35 (UTC) - Expand

I bit my nails from the age of 6 to the age of 21. I finally quit it for good a year ago, but only after seeing some horror-story pictures of bacterial infections from nail-biting on the internet.

Yeah, I bet the same stories are what made me stop!

I would sometimes flap my hands when I got excited. Like I was pretending to be a bird, only it was totally involuntary.

I actually still do that when I get really excited. Just get too much energy in my body!

I bit my nails for years but finally managed to quit a couple years ago and set up a bunch of ways to prevent myself from starting again.

It is a hard habit to break! Congrats. :D

I used to ask people questions about their religion before I realized it was taboo. Which is actually kind of sad, in a way, because I never meant anything by it - I was raised in a fairly religiously neutral family (although we celebrated Christian holidays) and meant it quite innocently. It wasn't until I was older that I realized some people... did not mean it so innocently.

Hm. I don't think that is weird. I guess it depends on how you were asking it.

I wish it was taboo where I lived. it's the first question a lot of people ask in this country and I'm an atheist and don't really feel like telling people I just met.

I also did the collar/hair thing, though I think I just sucked on the ends of my hair and didn't chew it. Don't know exactly when that started (I don't remember doing it when I was really young and remember it happening mostly when I was around 7), but by the time I was around 8/9 I stopped just as suddenly on my own. Maybe some sort of stress reaction?

Never bit my nails though.

I didn't like...chew it like food. Honestly sucking is a better description. I wonder if it does have to do with stress. I should look this up. It is more common than I thought!

I used to do a weird, jumpy dance whenever I was excited. I don't do that anymore, though I must admit I jumped out of my chair and did it when I first watched Digimon Adventure Tri.

I think a lot of kids do that! I know I did. I think they just don't know what to do with their energy.

Rebelling against toilet training

ANARCHY!

So many.

I used to cough without covering my mouth unless I was sick or standing right in front of someone. I had a constant asthma cough when I was younger so I would cough pretty much all the time while I was playing sports or walking or in class or trying to sleep, so it just seemed disruptive to raise my arm that much. I realised people don't know I'm not horribly contagious so it wasn't really socially acceptable.

You did cover them when sick or near people, so that doesn't seem to odd.

I used to chew my hair. That stopped fairly young.

I also used to sit on the edge of my bed, put on music, and rock back and forth. It helped me to focus on the music and daydream. It looked really weird and screwed up my mattresses.

I didn't grow out of that until I moved out of the house after high school. Moved into a dorm, didn't want to do that where people could see (and ruin beds!), so I went out for walks instead. It is far healthier all around and I still get to jam out and daydream. 8)

I love going on walks to listen to music and daydream. I go on 2-3 every weekend. That is a great alternative!

I used to chew on my hair and my shirt collar too! My mom would get mad because it totally stretched the shit out of my shirt fabric.

I usually wouldn't even notice I'd started doing it until she said something, either. XD

Holy crap. How common was this??? I am going to find out.

I was both a thumb sucker and a nail biter. I actually didn't lose both habits until I was 9 and we were moving to the Philippines and my parents decided those habits would likely get me sick over there.

I also did this thing where I'd hold my favorite stuffed animal really close and rub the soft, fuzzy part of the tag on that spot of skin between my upper lip and nose. I don't even know why I did that, but I did it for years. I didn't actually lose that habit until we were in Croatia and I accidentally left my teddy bear in a dorm room somewhere in the middle of nowhere. I didn't have any other stuffed animals that gave me the same effect, so at that point I just stopped.

Re: Childhood habits you (thankfully?) grew out of?

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