body parts: belly buttons

I used to believe that if I played around with my belly button too much, it would come undone and all my insides would fall out.

i used to beliveve my outie was an eyeball

I agree, when I was a kid showing your belly button was taboo it seemed. Had to becovered at all time and in fact they WERe aribrushed out of pics in store catalogues !

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My mom told me that if i play wiv my bellybutton or anyone elses the knot would unbutton and come undone! i tryed chasing a girl mate i had when i was 5-6 and tryed untying hers!

I used to belive that my belly botton held my skin on that's why it was called a belly botton and if it came undone my skin would fall off.

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My little sister who is now in her mid-twenties is not the brightest star in the sky. When we were in our early twenties I saw that she had some dirtyness in her belly button and asked her what it was and why it was so dirty. She said, " Oh that's just my umbilical cord." Apparently, she never washed out her belly button thinking that the nastiness was her umbilical cord. How gross is that?!

I used to believe that when someone pushed your belly button, your arms and legs would fall off.

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When I was very young, my mother told me that if I didn't clean my belly-button in the bath, dirt would collect and potatoes would start growing out of it. I made sure it keep it nice and clean.

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as a kid i thought that the people with outie bellybuttons got cut open and they had to get it sewn shut

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My bellybutton is an innie, but my cousin had an outie, which totally fascinated me, as it was the only one I had ever seen like that. She is Japanese, and I assumed that all Asian people had outies, a fact that I became very jealous about since it seemed more interesting than my innie. Whenever I was around someone Asian, I would ask to see their bellybutton. After I was told that was a rude thing to ask, I would just try to get a sneaky look at it. I was shocked when I first saw a non-Asian person with an outie!

I used to believe that if you put a crumb in my belly button, it would go right to my stomach, when I was 3, I put a crumb of food in my belly button and thought it would poison my because it was on the floor. To this day the only thing in belly button is lint.

I used to pick my belly button when I was small and one time my brother told me if I kept doing that, it would pop off and rice would spill out and they wouldn't be able to stop it. I stopped poking at my belly button for a while after that. I still get nervous sometimes when I do, and try my best not to poke too hard.

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My mom used to tell me stories when I was in the bath about my Belly button disappearing down the plug hole and going on amazing adventures. I would be sitting with all the bubbles and she would tell me they were the clouds and my belly button would by flying in hot air balloons. I always used to get really scared when my belly button had to get back in time before I got out of the bath. I used to get really freaked when it met spiders and slimy pipes on the way back to me, mom always had to wash it well before I'd have it back!

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Because I could not understand how a baby could come out where it does, I reasoned to my self that when babies were born they came out of the belly button because (of corse) babies grew in the stomach -with all the food.

i thought that there was a little town in my bellybutton, so i nevered thouched it.

I remember in 4th grade i used to take a bath and i'd rinse my hair out with a bucket, so i'd dip the bucket in water and close my eyes and dump it on my head. Well one day i didn't close my eyes and i looked down (i was chubby btw) and i saw the water running out from my belly button. So during recess that day i told all the girls i was playing with that i knew what a belly button was for! The water runs out of there when you use too much during your bath or shower. When i got older i realized that the water was just running down my stomach.