Am i wierd?
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I would say it's only a problem if it bothers you, or somehow disrupts your life. For example, if you would choose to not hang out with your friends because you would rather stay home and suck your thumb, that would be a problem. Otherwise, to each their own.
whatever floats your boat
I wouldn't say it's weird. it's different, but I suppose you could take that and say I'm calling you weird. I'm not by the way. I think it's no different then people sleeping with a blanket. Maybe you should ask your doctor and see what they say. I'm pretty weird myself and about very one I know is. Someone once told me it's an insult to be consider normal.
So in other words stay weird ; )
no not wierd kinda of kinky though im the right setting
People are all so different. You must understand that first.
Life is so complicated that it's impossible to understand why people do what they do and how everything fits in. Everything is so different for everybody, it is scary. But just believe that everything will be fine. The time where change comes for someone is different from you, so just be fortunate for what you have.
Let me share with you my experience. In one of my classes one guy who was sharing his journal, began to cry thinking about what's going to happen next with his life. At that time what was going through his mind, for me, was so adult like that I thought why I wasn't thinking what he was thinking. That summer however I went on a trip by myself and I saw things that made me think about what he thought in that class.
You might be stuck doing something that others have stopped doing for a long time, but that time where change (to be the person you will become) has not come of you. Don't worry about all the media, how everything people do have to be cool and modern. Everyone is different. Just continue to thrive on your goals and one day you will see that you have changed.
I am 31 years old, and I also happen to have high functioning autism, although sometimes I think I'm somewhat retarded.
Anyway, I don't think anything of your having a pacifier. After all, I have one still and I'm 15 years older than you!! The funny part is that I started using one again when I was about 14
or so. I had my bottle till age 6 1/2 years old and I never forgot the taste of the nipple. I always thought maybe Mom saved some, but I never found one. So I got a pacifier from the store when I was 14, thinking passies aren't as big as bottles, and I could hide it from my parents better plus I wouldn't have to run it through a dishwasher. So I got some, but my mother did find out. LOL. What brand do you use?
Make sure you use an orthodontic pacifier. I use Nuk size
3 pacifiers sometimes, and sometimes Playtex Binky Soft Comfort Most Like Mother (which is getting to be rare and
hard to find), and I like the Mams the most. You should try the Ulti Mam pacifiers. They are the best. I have been a customer of Mam/Sassy Baby Products for over 12 years.
They have a toll free number: it's 1-800-323-6336. Take
note that I am developmentally disabled. I am, in fact, as many people tell me, emotionally and socially the age of a 4-5 year old. I LOVE Teletubbies (just got myself a Teletubbies tent on Ebay), Care Bears, Sesame Street, etc. I am a big big Teletubbies fan (Laa Laa is my favorite). Even though I have a BA degree in Geography, it's impossible for me to hold a job and I'm not sure about my future at all. :(
You can email me at preston1632 at yahoo.com
PS - my psychiatrist said I really should get rid of my pacifier, but easy for her to say, right?? One lady doctor on internet
even wrote me saying that I had a pacifier because I wasn't breastfed long enough (5 months for me). Oh well.
Take care and God bless!!
Geowhizkid26 from California
Some people still suck their thumbs even after marriage. I think you should do it in private, not on buses or while jogging or driving through an intersection. Maybe some day you can give your pacifiers to someone as a special gift.
You still have the inner child in you.
but that doesnt make you weird, besides you aren't
you have an oral fixation..try to replace it with gum..
u r not weird it is just the desire to do something to keep yourself busy bc i still have a baba blanket and i am 18
some disease go within week and some go in years.
depending on the type of medcine you get and the doctor you found
Your being on pacifiers is not done with conscious efforts and enogh force
You are putting in luke warm efforts
when you are put on pacifier do you do it for few minutes or do it continously
to clearout the disease totally you have to devote totaly fully then only your problem will disappear totally from roots
be on pacifier and do it with you total attention on it and vigorously for continuously for 45 minutes daily minimum at one stretch then take 15 minutes break then again comeback and start . Repeat for three times daily. Thus making three hours workout . Continue this for 21 days and see what effect it has.
do not leave for a single day do without break for a single day .
if needed take off from the job and do . take leave and go out to some Motel if you cannot do at Home .
but solve
the medicine or advice given to you is not wrong. you are not involved in it totally
and forget that you are weired'
You are ok and you are here to win
It sounds to me like there is some kind of fear or anxiety that is causing you to not be able to get over the need for one. Yet I have had really bad horrible days and woke up in the night and found my self sucking on my thumb. So if it is helping you cope with your life then don't be ashamed. We all have to get by in this world the best way you know how!! P.s. IF YOUR ONLY 16 THEN DON'T RUSH TO GET OLDER IT ISN'T BETTER I WILL TELL YOU THAT RIGHT NOW!!
Facing Fears and Phobias
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Differentiate
You need to differentiate between rational and irrational fears. In some situations, it's completely appropriate to be afraid — it's a survival instinct. However, if you are suffering from a phobia, you probably know in your own mind that the intense fears you are experiencing are irrational.
Understand that you have control
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Change your internal dialogue
When you experience these intense and irrational fears, you aren't responding to the world, you're responding to what you say to yourself internally about the world. For example: "If I board a plane, it will crash and I will die." You need to replace this negative, irrational dialogue with rational, fact-based dialogue. You can begin to form this new dialogue by challenging your fears.
Challenge your fears
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