belly buttons

when I was a kid I thought that babies come out of a belly-button.

Ana

My mother once told me that your belly button was a tube directly connected to your stomach. If you picked at your belly button too much, you would open the tube and your would bleed to death (she was a very frighting mother). She said that this happened to a young boy she knew when she was a child. By 4th grade I started to figure out what belly buttons are for, but I still thought it was possible to die from belly button opening. It was only in 7th grade Health class that I completely learned that belly buttons are just scars, and to this day I like by dad better.

Eugenia

I used to think that your whole stomach was called a belly button, and that your whole midsection was part of it.

Anon

When I was little I thought the navel was a button to turn people off and on.

James

my Dad used to tell me that he was saving his belly button lint in a bar stored in his closet to make a huge pillow. bah!

Annie

When I was younger I believed that to get babies out of their mothers stomachs you pressed their belly buttons and out they popped. How niave

Sam Harvey

When I was younger I was fasincated with my dads belly button because it always had fuzz in it. He always told me that he had a fuzz factory in his belly button and had to empty it every day or else it would over flow. I always wanted my own fuzz factory until I realized that it was really from his shirt:s

Alana

when i was small i asked my big brother why we had bellybuttons and he told me that we came from outerspace and we were aliens and we could communicate with the alien people through them, he told me to try it and i would spend hours talking to my bellybutton but i never got a response. :(

sad sally

I used to believe that your belly button was what held your top half to your bottom half...

Debelouwho

When I was little I used to think that there was a town living in my stomach.And I thought my belly button was their sewer.

That's why I didn't pick it.

Socks are EBIL

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.

Ben

I was told (repeatedly by my father) that if you play with your bellybutton you would bleed to death. This has had a horrific effect on my sex life.

Stinky

When i was younger, my gradfather told me that if i was to stick my finger in my belly button and twist, my legs would fall off. I did not hardly ever touch my belly button till I was 13 years old. That was when he told me the truth!

Jessica Alisabeth

Someone told me that your bum falls off if you unscrew your belly button. This dosn't stop me from fiddling with it though. I often try to turn my innie into an outie. I succeed. I think I'm a freak!

freaky belly button

I used to believe I had a fuzzy monster living in my belly button, until my friend came and plucked the lint out while I was sleeping!

Bryan

I used to believe that if you covered up your belly button you would suffocate. When I tried proving this to my sister I found out that I was incorrect, so I pretended to suffocate.

Cho

until about 20 minutes before i read these silly belly button beliefs i thought i could get sick from pressing my belly button...i used to press it a lot when i didn't want to go to school...all i got was a funny feeling in the tummy :(

Curtis

I knew that the belly button was associated somehow with birth, so I thought that when you were going to give birth, your belly button opened up like the old CBS logo on TV - like an old camera lens! Then the baby would easily come out and the 'lens' would close up again.

ali

My mom says that when she was growing up, she thought that her belly button was where her skin came together.

Dana

When I was little my Mom told me that if I kept playing with my belly button my arms and legs would fall off. That's why they call it a belly button because it holds your body together.

Pam H.