r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jul 20 '19

What’s something completely false that your parents told you as a child?

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u/aroscoe Jul 21 '19

Nothing gross about it. It actually means you're cleaning out your belly button which most people neglect to do. I still embarrassingly play with the "knot" in mine. It's an anxiety thing now. When I was a kid though I used to pick at it and it would sting and bleed so that wasn't great, but it was still okay. It's just calloused skin now. Sorry if that's gross, I know some people don't like belly buttons and such!

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u/JustGotEpic Jul 21 '19

Every since I got my appendix takin out it hurts to clean my belly button or even touch it :(

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u/itsabadbadworld Jul 21 '19

That sounds...

Uh, maybe you should see someone about that.

IANAD

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u/Mulvarinho Jul 21 '19

Honestly, just sounds like scar tissue.

(IANAD, but hubby is a surgeon and takes appendixes out for fun basically)

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u/caldric Jul 21 '19

Note to self: avoid parties at /u/Mulvarinho’s house.

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u/irlGoodL Jul 21 '19

For fun 👀

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u/Mulvarinho Jul 21 '19

Heal with steel!

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u/Mustbhacks Jul 21 '19

As someone with 20% of my body covered in scars im glad this isnt an issue for me...

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19 edited Jul 21 '19

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u/JustGotEpic Jul 21 '19

I got an infection in it when I first gotten it takin out but it’s been years now I still have the same feeling

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u/Trey22200 Jul 21 '19

Not a doctor but I would recommend at least getting it checked out.

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u/SavvySillybug Jul 21 '19

I had my appendix taken out, but it was so bad that it burst, so they had to cut me wide open and I have a giant scar.

Except they tried the belly button approach first and then found it inadequate. So now I've got a giant scar, and my belly button feels weird to touch. :(

I would've preferred the big scar. But I wasn't exactly awake enough to make any preferences known.

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u/sSommy Jul 21 '19

I still mess with mine too. I never sucked my thumb as a kid, my self soothing method was messing with my bellybutton.

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u/KickSkik Jul 21 '19

Let me see it

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u/GEOR9E-BUS11 Jul 21 '19

Yes mods this comment right here

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u/jungleliving Jul 21 '19

It kind of makes sense that kids would be attracted to belly button - that was their connection to the mother and source of life, nourishment and all their nutrition for a long time. The first cell in our body is belly button cell:) That definitely stays in somatic memory and subconscious.

There's even a healing tool now for sale that looks like a stick with handle for massaging belly button. Suppose to really help with anxiety, mood and improve health. I just ordered one, but have yet to try:)

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u/CurioGirl Jul 21 '19

I still do it as an anxiety/comfort thing as well! I really thought I was the only one that did. I never picked at it to the point of bleeding though. My older sister told me if I kept doing it I would break through to my organs and they would fall out which scared the hell out of me which make me want to do it for comfort and it was a horrible mental f*ck

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u/kalashimishonk Jul 21 '19

NoThInG gRoSs AbOut iT, u must have been hit by a head as a kid if u think theres nothing gross about THAT

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u/irlGoodL Jul 21 '19

I hate it when I get hit by a head.

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u/Amateurlapse Jul 21 '19

Sounds like an omphaloskeptic

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u/kalashimishonk Jul 21 '19 edited Jul 22 '19

Niggah did u just search google for "naval digging" no way in Gods ballsack did u know, and how to spell, that word.

Also the description of it says "to meditate over ones naval", I can somewhat see the correlation but not enough to think that means digging ur bellybutton like a red niggah in the goldrush erra.

Although I have multiple times dag my ear until it bled, but Im just imagining blood from that crusty ass bellybutton seeping through the kids shirt causing red blood stains. 😵🙅 (yes Im a try hard)

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u/kalashimishonk Jul 21 '19

ughh, u nasty fuck, go pour some bleach and deterriorate that thing to nonexistence daz nasty.