When I was little, my grandmother told me that my belly button is where all my skin was tied into a knot. I took her seriously and for almost a year I wouldn't touch my belly button, wash too close to my belly button in the bath, all in fear that if I touched it the "knot"/belly button would come undone, and all of my skin would fall off.
A childhood belief about belly buttons
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if your belly button came undone your skin would fall off! Anon
- I used to believe your belly button was a knot that held you together - my parents had wierd anatomical views— anne
- I used to think that if i touched my belly button it would unfold and my belly would be inside out forever. Anon
- My mom says that when she was growing up, she thought that her belly button was where her skin came together.— Dana
- I used to beleive if your belly button came undone all the air would go out of your body and you would die.— kate
- When I was a kid my dad told me that if you unscrewed your belly button your bum would fall off.— Ann