Tongue Chewing
When I was younger, I used to chew my tongue regularly. It is not quite as gross as it sounds. It is more like a repeated grazing of the teeth up against the sides of the tongue. It does not hurt or anything like that. I am usually doing something else and thinking about something when I find myself chewing my tongue. When others have seen me do it, they tell me that it looks like I am chewing gum. It is a habit that I have had for as long as I can remember, and I guess I still have it. As far as I know, I am the only one in my family that chews their tongue.
In my adult life, especially in more recent years, I have seen a near disappearance of said habit, especially in the last few years. However, lately, I have noticed that I am doing it again and more frequently, and I do not know why.
If I had to guess at it, I would guess that tongue chewing is similar to any other nervous or weird habit, like nail biting, thumb sucking, and things like that. I cannot say that there has been any extra stress, worry, or anxiety in my life than what was already there, so it makes me really wonder why I have started chewing my tongue so much again.
When I tried to find out more information about tongue chewing, though, I found that there is not much information to find. If you look up thumb sucking and nail biting, you can find a wealth of information about each. There are articles about why people do it, what it is, how to stop it, but there is not much of anything related to tongue chewing.
Naturally, then, I was very surprised to find a site about it here. It is a very basic site that looks to be created by another who has the habit. Probably the most comforting thing on this site was the quotes in which others share their tongue chewing stories. I have never thought much about it before, but I do not know anyone else who chews there tongue and had not heard of others who did. I never thought that I was strange for it, though. It is still nice to know that I am not the only one. Now I just have to figure out why I am doing it again. Hmm.
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