belly buttons

i used to belive that if yo played with you belly utton that all your skin would unravel

steven sean john johnston

I use to think that if you open your belly button really wide you could see the inside of your stomach. The thought of that freaked me out so I never tried to see. I didnt realize the truth until I got older and figured it out by people telling me.

Anon

i used to believe that my belly button could dissapear and i was terrified it would to i used to check if it was still there, and i used to count all my toes and fingers to make sure they hadn't fallen off. i did all this right before i went to bed, and i still can't let anybody touch my belly button, it gives me the creeps

manda b

I used to believe that belly buttons were the knots left after the umbilical cord was removed. I thought that the sticky-out kind was a different sort of knot.

Anon

I used to think that you belly button was an open whole at both ends and that theoretically, you could put something into it and have it come out of your belly button into your stomach. I kind of stopped thinking about it until I saw my wife's turn inside out when she was pregnant with our son. How naive am I?

Sasquatch

My Mom used to tell me that we got our Belly Buttons from God pushing on our belly's to see if we were "done". Babies were cooked in an oven so to speak...

Anon

When I was about 3 or 4 I my mom would lay on her bed with me and pull her sweat pants over her belly button and claim it disappeared and pretend to panic. I freaked out every time she did it and even cried some times.

Laura

When I was small my Uncle told me that if I prodded too hard at my belly button I would explode. from then on I was very careful when cleaning it and would cringe at the thought of anyone touching it. Imagine my horror over forty years later when I had key-hole surgery to remove my gall bladder when they removed the three dressings - the third one was over my belly button and yes, they had gone in that way! Fortunately I hadn't exploded on the operating table!

Napoleon

When i was little i used to be petrafied of my belly button. i used to think bugs would crawl out of. i also used to think it would turn inside out and all of my insides would poor out and i would become just a belly button.

Megan

when i was little my nana told me my belly button was where the indian shot me, so growing up i just carried it with me and even told my kids. my nephew who was 3 came to spend a week with us in florida, when he went back home my sister called and told me he would not sleep and would not play with his cowboy and indian things because i told him that, he also is 4 now and would like to know if the doctor can close it up so the indian will not shoot him, now i cant convince him i was only playig

carrie

As a kid I used to play with my belly-button (amongst other things!). My Mum told me that if I wasn't careful I would burst, fly around the room as the air escaped and end up flat as a pancake. I stopped playing with my belly buitton!

jonjo

I used to believe that if I stuck my finger far enough into my belly button, I would reach the inside of my stomach.

Melissa

I used to believe that your belly buttons were connected to your intestines, and if you poked your belly button too hard, you could puncture your intestines and die.

Dani

I remember in 4th grade i used to take a bath and i'd rinse my hair out with a bucket, so i'd dip the bucket in water and close my eyes and dump it on my head. Well one day i didn't close my eyes and i looked down (i was chubby btw) and i saw the water running out from my belly button. So during recess that day i told all the girls i was playing with that i knew what a belly button was for! The water runs out of there when you use too much during your bath or shower. When i got older i realized that the water was just running down my stomach.

Strawberri

as a little girl, I believed my childhood best friend (alan) when he told me that my belly button could also write on the fence like his did - wink wink... i almost got a hernia trying to make my belly button poke out so i could spray/write my name on the fence. my mom asked me what i was doing and for some strange reason i wasn't allowed to play with alan anymore...

charlie

My Grandfather used to tell all of us that we had a chicken painted on our bellies and it all wore off but its bum, thus explaining the belly-button

annieT

I used to believe that if your belly button got submerged in the bath, you'd drown. For many years, I was trying desperately to keep my belly button from becoming submerged and was quite upset with my mother for insisting I wash it.

Caeci

when i was about 2 or 3 i used to belive a man lived in my belly button and if you got your nose to close to your belly button he would bite it off!

hANN

When i was 2 or 3 i used to think that babies came out of your bellybutton so i would put tape of my bellybutton so i wouldn't have a baby.

Anon

when i was little i used to belive that the belly button was a whole in your body and so i was terrified of having baths because thought water would get inside me through my belly button

Anon