Anyway, when I was younger, like 15-20ish, I had a weird craving for eating/chewing sand...
I'd wash about half a teaspoon and then chew on it for abit and then depending on how I felt that day, I'd either swallow it or rinse it out.
I never really told anyone because well... eating sand isn't exactly a normal thing.
Plus it stopped anyway. After the doctor prescribed me some iron tablets for anaemia, I never craved it anymore. Of course it wasn't instant, so I was never sure.
It only occured to me now to google my weird cravings and it's called "pica".
Pica, which is a term for eating substance slike sand/dirt/clay, can be a sign of this, most often iron.
:D so there, I'm not a weirdo after all.
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