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SableSlate OP t1_ixzbl7s wrote

I slept with my hand on my bellybutton for yeeeears and one day in my late 20s I remembered why. A book a teacher read to us in kindergarten! I searched for over a decade online trying to find it and as the internet got more and more obscure content, I finally found it in my 30s!! I bought it for $5. I was going to write the author to tell him but he was 97yo and I didn't want to tell him how his innocent little book caused me so much trauma gif

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Godmodex2 t1_ixzff8u wrote

Sorry but that's hilarious! What are you going to do with the book now that you've faced your demons?

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SableSlate OP t1_ixzgswv wrote

You should laugh it is hilarious. The book is about an alien who steals children's belly buttons while they're sleeping. There's no moral to the story it's just sci-fi horror for kids. I had one of my friends read it and tell me what it was about.

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Godmodex2 t1_ixzhwuw wrote

I had a similar trauma but it was food related. We eat Liver paste where I'm from and when I was around seven I was told a horror story about a kid who made it from his grandmother's liver. She returned at night to take it back by gutting the boy. I didn't eat the stuff for -years-. And to think no adult considered the risk of telling kids the story.

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SableSlate OP t1_ixzkyup wrote

Wtfffffff haha oh my goodness - was it someone around your age who told you that?

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Godmodex2 t1_ixzlw24 wrote

It's hard to remember exactly who told me but I think it was a kid who was a few years older! The stories from Northern Europe are sometimes a special kind of dark. As a kid you respect and fear the forest because of all the stories. As an adult you kind of feel nostalgic when it comes to the folklore so you may downplay how frightening it actually is to children with a vivid imagination

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pichael288 t1_ixzsi5m wrote

Does this involve a machine that removes your bellybutton? I'm not sure if it's this book or not but I am aware of something in my childhood that performed that function

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