To ask you which of these bad habits is the worst (in adults)

[birobenny]

sucking your thumb or picking your nose and eating it?

[mikado1]

Eughhh!!! Definitely the latter (as a former thumb sucker!!)

[LazyLouLou]

Sucking your thumb. It is infantile.

Picking your nose and eating it is a guilty pleasure, like picking and eating scabs.

[Wideopenspace]

Sucking your thumb.


But neither is as bad as eating with your mouth open.

[YaTalkinToMe]

Picking your nose and eating

[CrohnicallyAspie]

Picking your nose and eating it! It's gross and no one should be doing it, regardless of age. Why would you eat something that is essentially a waste product (not to mention all the other impurities that get 'caught' in the nose.

Whereas thumb sucking is an extension of a reflex that humans naturally do when younger, that someone just hasn't 'grown out of'

(pS I sucked my thumb into my 20s, I know now it was a way of stimming and reducing anxiety due to my AS. I wouldn't be surprised if any adult sucking their thumb in public turned out to be non-NT in some way)

[IamtheDevilsAvocado]

Mouth open and eating ...

Not washing hands after loo..

[FenellaFellorick]

oh god. nose nose nose.

revolting.

makes me gag.

WHY would anyone be such a dirty filthy pig?

[FenellaFellorick]

I mean, they're eating their snot hardened and mixed with germs, dust, dirt and pollen

I knew someone who did it. Made me actually retch. blow your nose and suck your hanky why don't you, you filthy beast.

[FarFromAnyRoad]

Coughing up a live oyster and flobbing it onto the pavement.

Anything else to do with snot especially if it is unset snot!

[Boogerbabe]

Sucking your thumb. I've always picked my nose and eat it. I don't see anything wrong with it.