when i was little i used to think that if i ever got a cut or scratch on/ or near my belly button it would pop and i would bleed to death...my brother finaly threw my cat at me and my cat scratched me every where. i thought i was a goner!
A childhood belief about belly buttons

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if I scratched one side of my body I had to
scratch the other to be "even".— Greg - I used to believe that when I started menstruating, I would bleed to death from losing too much blood.— Debbie
- I used to think that when you made food 'from scratch', that scratch was an ingredient like starch.— Aynsleigh
- 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 a kid I thought that babies come out of a belly-button.— Ana
- My mom says that when she was growing up, she thought that her belly button was where her skin came together.— Dana