My sister and I used to believe that tampons were for making older women feel younger. We thought that once they were using a tampon, old women were able to dance around and do high kicks.

M

When I was younger (6-7) I found my mum's tampons in the bathroom cabinet.
I thought they must be toy umbrellas or parachutes of some kind, since they had a string and well, they are shaped similar to an umbrella.

So I unwrapped one and tried pulling the string to open out the 'parachute'. When it didn't work I was incredibly frustrated, but still tried with most of the box. After a while I got fed up and threw them away.

Mum had quite a shock later when she came into my room and saw all these destroyed tampons in the bin!

anon

Not me but a friend thought (until we set her straight) that periods were blue because of the commercials that show how much the pad absorbs. She was so embarrassed when we told her that the blood "down there" is the same color. So was her face :)

Anon

my friend haley had her first period in the 5th grade but her mother never explained to her what a period was so on that day she ran out screaming," mom im dying!!!!!" and started to cry
shes 16 now but that story never gets old(:
xD

kiyoko

When I was nine, I used to believe that tampons were a form of birth control and women wore them during sex.

anon

When I was really little my mom was putting this short thick blanket on my sisters bed. I asked her what for and she said because my sister had her period. I asked what a period was for and my mom said it's when a woman lets go of all the eggs she didn't use. I pictured my sister laying eggs like a chicken.

Good times

When i was young i always thought the maxipads under the bathroom sink were big band-aids and i would stick them all over my arms and walk up to my mom. very awkward now that i think of it.

Devon

I used to believe that when a woman got period for the first time she wasn't virgin any more.

whatEver

A while ago I was walking to the park with two of my girlfriends, three guy friends, and my 6 year old brother. There was a ripped up box of tampons on the street. My brother asked what they were. We told him that they were drugs. Then my mom drove up. My brother picked one up and ran to show her the "drugs". We havent lauged so hard, and I cant wait till he gets old enough to make that a family joke

Marissa

When I was in 3rd grade I went to the bathroom in school one day only to discover a toilet filled with blood. I was mortified and ran out of the girl's bathroom. I thought that someone had died or was murdered in the stall and never told anyone because I was afraid that the killer then might come after me. Imagine my relief when I learned about periods.

Nicole

When I was little, I thought that periods lasted only a half an hour, where you'd bleed out copious amounts of blood all at once. I also thought that babies came out of your belly button! What an odd kid I was, before I discovered the internet.

Nikki

My mom never told me what a period was. Whenever I asked her what the pads she had were for, she told me they were to keep her pants from getting dirty. I wasn't sure what they got dirty with, but I didn't think much of it, just that my mom had a bladder problem (lol).

One day when I was about 9 or 10, I went on the internet, and I read about periods, and it was total news to me. Since I had no knowledge of periods before that, I thought that once you got your period, it would never stop and you'd keep bleeding until you died. So I was terrified, until our Personal Development class that year.

Anon

I used to believe that if you were a girl and you touched yourself, ahem "down there", you wouldn't end up getting your period or it would get delayed for a really long time.

I thought this when I was around 9 or 10. When I was 12, I dissapointedly found out how wrong I was.

Some girl.