Things that you used to do as a child repetitively and now think "WTF?!"

Eat the whole apple, except the stalk.
Tear the crust off a slice of white bread, eat them, then roll up the crust less bread in my hands into a squashed bread-ball that I would then eat.
Mix orange and black currant squash together...why!
Spend ages with a pencil/knife picking out dirt from in between the tiles on the coffee table.
Eat stuff in the bath, soap, sponge, flannel....tried talcum powder once and it made me violently puke

Paint my hands with Copydex ( a rubber based glue) and then rub it off.

Chew milk.

Oooh there's another one. For years I thought that every time I played a record (yes, I'm talking 12") the singer in question would have to drop whatever they were doing and sing for me, so I used to worry about playing records at inappropriate times or would wonder 'will they be in the toilet?' or 'they might be out now' before putting a record on.

Whoops! Name change outing fail oh the shame that was me.

United by bogies pixie and ponyo. at DP finding some!

This thred has made me feel really normal!

Another paper eater here, my mum used to give me brown paper bags to eat as they didn't have any dye in them so would be healthier!

Me and some friends used to play a really gross game called poo sticks, note poo not pooh. The object of the game was to find a big stick, dip it in dog shit then try and flick it at each other.

Also used to get chunks of bread, roll them up into really small balls then dip in marg and eat. Slightly less disgusting than my previous confession.

I sucked the handle on one of dad's screwdrivers every time he had his toolbox out. It looked like it would taste of molten honeycomb, but obviously it tasted like sweaty palm.

Chew and swallow food but then use my throat to push it back up into my mouth and carry on chewing it. Like a cow chewing cud. I also used to drink water from flannels.

I think kids are all barking.

Another raw sausage eater here.

The thing is, you can't just eat a sausage out of the fridge and expect your mum not to notice that there aren't enough to go round. So, I used to squeeze a bit of sausage meat out of each sausage skin.

My mum must have wondered about the amazing shrinking sausages.

I can remember what the living room furniture in my grandparents house tasted like.

I must have at some point licked it.

I used to eat chalk, including my bedroom wall which was just plaster
I used to eat erasers
I always ate monkey nuts with the shells on
I would go to bed with my school uniform on top of my pyjamas thinking that I would beat my sister at getting ready in the morning

I love this thread! It is good to remind us that we used to be odd when we see our own children's weird habits.

If we had the glue out at school, I used to "secretly" paint the glue all over my desk and then have fun the next morning, peeling it all off. I loved that...I am pretty sure my sister was a crisp paste eater...

I used to gnaw the corner of our sitting room coffee table. No-one said anything. I used to just sit there gnawing it.

Kids are just weird.

I was a book eater too! All my Enid Blytons had chunks out of them.

The more I think about it, the more I realise how much of a "chewer" I was.

I chewed any type of paper.
I had a foam toy monkey that I bit chunks out of.
I sucked on the curtains near my bed (I don't remember this but my mum said I did it in my sleep )
Chewed my hair.
Chewed pencils / pens. / rubbers

I'm not surprised that I developed a smoking habit that took me 30 years to kick.

I have never chewed my nails though. That would be too normal.

Roonil that's what I did (glad it wasn't just me)

This will completely out me but there was a song ages ago "knock three times on the ceiling if you want me, twice on the pipes if the answer is no..." I used to play it and actually do it...ie jump on the chair bang on the ceiling ..then race outside and knock on the drainpipes...I was a very sad child....Also had an irrational fear that goldfish would get me in bed at night so would only sleep with light on, on my back, knees drawn up and toes curled , elbows and thumbs tucked in and surrounded by teddies...

Oh, and if we're talking weird foods, I used to spread a cracker type biscuit with butter, then sprinkle with curry powder and eat.
When clearing the table after a hot pudding served with cream, always used to take a gulp of cream from the carton before putting it back in the fridge (ew)

Fall over and get up straight away.

Ooh suck a sponge & chew bit off..... Oh yes I could still......

Oh yes. Forgot, I used to pretend to be a dog and my parents had to take me for walks and play fetch with ball. I was only 4 though.

I used to do the book eating thing. And the eating opal fruits without taking the wrappers off thing. In fact, I chewed everything- rubbers, pencils, rulers all ended up gnawed.