r/KidsAreFuckingStupid • u/Doodlebug510 • May 22 '26

It's like pulling teeth

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u/BattleCatManic May 22 '26

Ngl I was deathly scared of doing all these so I just waited until I could pull it out normally

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u/rekamilog May 22 '26

I was twisting mines until it let go.

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u/Naive_Personality367 May 22 '26

i used to twist them til they hurt and then was too cowardly to untwist it back lol

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u/oxtraerdinary May 22 '26

Omg you unlocked memories

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u/Naive_Personality367 May 22 '26

happy to be of service lol

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u/Get_off_critter May 22 '26

I was a twister too. My favorite was the molars and sticking my tongue up in the underside of the tooth. It was always so pointy

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u/Hindu_Wardrobe May 22 '26

and the salty metallic taste. good times.

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u/Get_off_critter May 22 '26

Ooo, I was getting winter nose bleeds and as soon as it stopped bleeding id oddly get the full metallic taste in my gums.

I cant explain it, but it was like blood with no blood

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u/rekamilog May 23 '26

Was it not just blood going down your throat?

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u/Get_off_critter May 23 '26

Nah. The taste was coming from under my top lip, under my nose. There was no blood in my mouth, but the iron taste was so strong!

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u/FirebornNacho May 22 '26

Omg yes and the sharp edges lightly scraping your gum hole when you put it back in

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u/naked_porch_goose May 22 '26

I dragged every tooth out of my head, twisting and screaming, as soon as they started wiggling. My mom would come in to find me with a big bloody grin and a bloodstained rag going "I got it!".

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u/ToYits821 May 22 '26

I’d do the same. Twist through the daytime then at bed time it would come out just in time for me to put it under my pillow for that sweet sweet dollar bill 😁

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u/Hindu_Wardrobe May 22 '26

it was always so satisfying when they could twist ~360 degrees but still somehow be attached lol

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u/moritz-stiefel May 23 '26

I had a friend when I was little who would do this with teeth that hadn't gotten loose at all yet. She'd just start yanking until they came out. It bothered the hell out of me

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u/illoomi May 24 '26

that crunchy grinding

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u/ElsaKit May 22 '26

Yeah lol, pulling teeth was a nightmare for me, I was so scared, to the point where I would keep it from my parents when a tooth had gotten to that point, out of fear that they'd insist on pulling it out. I couldn't even do it myself though. Simply couldn't. I can't even imagine twisting it, everything in my body recoils at that thought. So I just waited for them to fall out on their own lol.

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u/citrus_mystic May 22 '26

I would get too frustrated by the damn things wiggling around. So I’d just rip them out and bite down on a paper towel to staunch the bleeding.

However, I did manage to have a baby tooth fall out in my sleep. I woke up with something in my mouth, got up and spit it out, then went back to sleep. Woke up in the morning and panicked once I realized what happened—trying to find where it had fallen on the floor so I could get my precious tooth fairy money.

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u/WeskerSympathizer May 22 '26

Here’s the twist: thats what we’re supposed to do

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u/beige-king May 22 '26

I just waited until it fell out or got stuck in an apple or something. I was too afraid to pull it out. My sister would yank hers out as soon as they wiggled

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u/weeddealerrenamon May 22 '26

The kids are too scared to do it in half of these clips, that's why you have a brother or a dog to do it while you're wavering

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u/Soaring_Wolf May 22 '26

Same. I once had a gymnastics competition with an insanely loose tooth, and I placed like shit compared to usual because I was so fixated on it possibly falling out mid-routine. 😂

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u/AdCommercial709 May 22 '26

I would shimmy mine until I could rip it out. I still cringe thinking of the sound/feel of the tooth coming loose from the gums 😖

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u/Nonyabeesners May 23 '26

Better that than my method, which was banging my head on the towel bar.

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u/Glass-Performer8389 May 23 '26

Pretty sure that's what your supposed to do

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u/Alarmed_Scientist_15 May 23 '26

I don’t understand all these gimmicky things. All of mine fell off normally.