When I was 7 I believed my mother was capable of unscrewing my bellybutton and removing my legs.
She told this to me and a friend once because we kept getting of the couch when she was trying to vacuum.
A childhood belief about belly buttons

others believed things like this
- When I was younger, I would believe that vacuum cleaners were capable of sucking up humans.Anon
- i used to think that vacuum cleaners had little piece of space inside them because space is a vacuumAnon
- I believed you ran the vacuum to cut the carpet and used the lawn mower to smooth out the grass.— Michelle
- I was told when young that if i kept poking my bellybutton my bum would drop off.— vicky
- My uncle told me if you twist your bellybutton, your bum will fall off, I was terrified!— little2ft
- when i was little i always asked my mom if my aunt had ant legs or people legs.— kelly