When I was young my parents misled me into believing that there were creatures known as 'belly button monsters', and occasionally showed me dead specimens that had been washed out of my father's belly button after he had had a shower. At one point diagrams were even drawn of the creatures in an attempt to convince me. Why my parents did this I'm not sure, but to this day I don't trust belly button fluff, just in case it is alive.
A childhood belief about belly buttons
others believed things like this
- I used to think that if i touched my belly button it would unfold and my belly would be inside out forever. Anon
- I used to believe your belly button was a knot that held you together - my parents had wierd anatomical views— anne
- when i was young i was told that if i played with or turned my belly button that my bum would fall off — lee hull
- 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