When I was little, I heard my mother call my belly button a "navel." A few days later, she offered me a navel orange. I was convinced that it was some sort of belly button fruit and from then on I spent hours cleaning out my navel with Q-tips and antiseptic.
A childhood belief about dangerous food
others believed things like this
- I used to think that my belly button was where I was once shot and that the navel was a healed up bullet hole— Tony
- When I was little I thought the navel was a button to turn people off and on.
— James - I used to think that if i touched my belly button it would unfold and my belly would be inside out forever. Anon
- babies come out of your belly button— Kit
- when I was a kid I thought that babies come out of a belly-button.— Ana
- When I was a kid my dad told me that if you unscrewed your belly button your bum would fall off.— Ann