I used to believe that our belly buttons were like the blow-holes on balloons, where God blew us up, then tied us off and clipped the excess. If it ever came undone, we would fly around the room like a balloon "plfffff"
A childhood belief about belly buttons

others believed things like this
- I used to beleive if your belly button came undone all the air would go out of your body and you would die.— kate
- I used to believe that if your belly button came undone your skin would fall off! Anon
- i uses to believe that boys wee'd out of their belly buttons.— boys and toilets
- I used to believe that babies came out of belly buttons — kels
- that bunnies came out of belly buttonsAnon
- Thanks to my grandmother, I used to believe that my belly button was where Jesus blew me up with a straw.— Michele