belly buttons

When I was a child, I was told by my mother that I shouldn't pick at my belly button because behind it was all of my "guts" and it would all come out one day if I didn't leave my navel alone.

Anon

I used to beleive that your belly button was like an on/off switch.
I would run around all lunch time at school pressing peoples bely buttons, or threatening the people I hated that I would press there's if they were mean to me.

I was not normal as a child.

The Belly Button Presser. =]

Being the curious sort I used to ask my dad what belly buttons were for. He told me that it was where he was shot by an arrow when he was little while playng cowboys and indians. Naturally, I refused to play cowboys and indians with friends and insisted on cops and robbers instead. I do remember thinking I was getting a raw deal as I did not get to play with a bow and arrow.

dsm1217

When I was three I saw a National Geographic magazine featuring photos of starving children in Africa with distended abdomens. It got me to exploring my own abdomen-which appeared to have a hole in it (my belly button). I became hysterical thinking that all my food would fall out of the hole, that I would begin to stave to death and that my belly would stick out just like thise kids in the magazine. Everyone in my family had to show me their navel and assure me that their food had never fallen out through it.

robin rc

I used to think navel was a dirty word. Somehow thought it was where babies came from. So whenever I heard the words "navel orange" or "naval" (pertaining to the Navy) I thought people were talking dirty.

T. Koenig

I used to belive...(well actually my friend used to belive) that if you poke your belly button too hard you will blow up. Lol he still belives this and he is 14...

Tess

When I was a child my sister told me that if your bellybutton opened. You would deflate and fly around the room like a balloon

Erica

My mother told me "that's where the indian shot you". This must be a saying of sorts possibly from an old western.

Anon 2

My brother used to tell me that you gave birth through your belly button. I could never work out how a baby could get through a hole so small...

Jen

when i was young i used to believe that if i pull my belly button my skin wil fall of, so i tried for years to do it and when i sucseeded nothing hapend i only had an outie insted of an innie!!!

NO ONE

Mummy told me that my belly button had an unlimmited amount of wool in it. When I was in the bath, why didn't I shrink?

David 1974ad

This isn't my belief, but a friend of mines. It was the funniest one I've heard. When she was young, she believed that if you poked your belly button, you would fly.

Anon

when i was little my sister had a habbit of sticking her finger in her belly button and twisting it around. so i told her that if you twisted it enough you would unscrew it and then your arms would fall of. she stopped right away. now she is 14 and still bleives it!!!

sorry i forgot!~

When I was a kid, I thought that belly-buttons on girls were really their future babies, and they grew out of their stomach when the girl was old enough to have children.

Ashley Nylin

i used to believe that when a woman was pregnant, you had to push the belly button and the baby would just pop out!! well i didnt know what else it was there for!!

Emma

I had a cruel older cousin who threatened that she could unravel my belly button with her finger and I would fly around the room like a deflated balloon. She convinced me that she had seen it happen at school, and she tortured me with the threat for years. I never asked mom if it could really be done for fear that she would find out and follow through with it!

Anon

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.

Nancy

when i was about 8, i thought if i pressed in other peoples belly buttons they would explode. when i went on a field trip the beach i would run up, touch someones belly button and run away, then i tried to do it harder until the teacher yelled at me.

Anon

I used to think your belly button was there to collect the lint of your shirt!

Anon

I used to believe that belly button lint came from the *inside*. Why else would it always be the same color?

Anon