Myth Busted
I have been told time and again that I shouldn't pick at my scabs because it will leave a scar. Yet I always continue to pick. It's just a force of habit that I have. I just have to pick at anything that sticks out, and my scabs and scratches are no different. And after all this picking I have five scars on my body (possibly a sixth, but I haven't seen the top of my head in quite some time).
However, when I originally received these five separate injuries I never picked at those scabs. Still, scars formed. I can accept that because each of those injuries where rather severe. One is from surgery, another two required stitches, and a fourth would have required stitches, if I had had anything left to stitch on. So naturally I expected scars from all of them.
But what about everything else? I constantly pick at all my scabs. I pick at the scabs that form over the original scabs that I picked at. Still, none of those wounds have ever left a scar. In fact none of them have ever become infected either. I've never had any issues at all with picking. I'd like to think that I'm special, and have some magically healing ability, but that's just not so.
I guess that some old wives' tales are just that, old wives' tales.