When I was in second grade, I spent hours slacking off in class trying to turn my "innie" belly button into an "outie" one.
I had never seen an outie before, and so I thought the only way people got outies was if they did it themselves.
I was so convinced I could do it, I used every tool available, from my fingers to tweezers, to the eraser end of a pencil. All that resulted was a whole lot of pain and discomfort.
A childhood belief about belly buttons

others believed things like this
- i used to believe that guys pulled out their outie belly buttons and that's how they peed.— Sky
- I used to believe that when your pencil ran out of eraser that if you sharpened it it would grow a new eraser— Nikkie
- As a kid I used to believe that when you sharpened your pencil, the eraser on the pencil grew.Anon
- when i was 5, i thougt my outie bellybutton was a third eye that opens when im a sleep.— bellyeye????
- i thought that outies were an on/off button— mr.bob
- When I was little I thought the navel was a button to turn people off and on.
— James