When i was 5 my dad told me that if i played with my belly-button it would get bigger and bigger and i would have a big hole in the front of me. i Never touched it again.
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
- 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
- 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
- iwas told that if u cry on your birthday you would not get any bigger 4 a whole year— steve
- That 1/4 was bigger than 1/2Anon
- I used to believe that everybody who was bigger or taller than I was always older than me.— Stano Finji