thumbsucker

I recently watched the thumbsucker after leslie highly recomended it. Thumbsucker, not to be confused with the weirdest movie i've ever seen Chumbscrubber, turned out to be really good.

I was intrigued by its title, because I too was a thumbsucker. When I was younger I guess I always walked around with a thumb in my mouth and my security blanket, till maybe the age of 8....at least the thumb sucking stopped, blankie continued to be a major part of my life that waited on my bed for me to come home (its still there, but at my parents house so that people dont ruin it). I'd get teased by my mom's side of the family with comments like "I bet you are going to walk down the aisle sucking your thumb"--real nice.

In the movie Justin's addiction to sucking his thumb was replaced by prescribed Ritalin. A phase that I also went through. When he was taking it all the time he focused on debating. When I was taking it all the time I quilted an entire queen sized quilt. (oh yeah and did well in all my classes). It turns out ritalin is only 3 molecules different from cocaine, I kinda wish someone had told me that before I started taking 54mg a day. now i'm down to 5-18mg, but i took it all last week and if you saw me you could prob see that my hands were shaking all week and i was reminded how poorly it mixes with any alcohol, so i'm on another break from it now. Justin just replaced ritalin with with one thing and from that another....its a slippery slope you know, all stemming from a little thumbsucking ;)

good movie, you should rent it.