When I was little and on through most of highschool I thought that your bellybutton went straight to your stomach and I was terrified to touch it because I thought I would poke into my insides. I would get sick to my stomach every time I thought about it.
A childhood belief about belly buttons
others believed things like this
- I beleived that if i bit my fingers then the nails in my stomach would soon form a hand and rip up my insides!— Amanda T.
- I thought a stomach ache was a stomach egg— Catherine
- If you touch your bellybutton, it will get infected.Anon
- I used to believe that If I stuck my finger really far inside of my belly button I could touch my insides.Anon
- I thought that if I swallowed grapestones, a tree would grow out from my stomach. — Tone
- When I was younger I thought I made up a new way to tickle someone--by tickling their stomach.— Amelia