When I was 6 years old, I looked into the toilet and saw a little blood, which had lot been flushed down completely. I went to my mother and asked 'Mom, do you have your paradontosis?', somehow mixing up the word with "periods". Mom was perplexed.

jane

When I first started getting periods(at age 10 or 11)I always used pads. I always said that I'd never use tampons, my mother never used them so I didn't know how they worked. I thought that because when I wiped my butt while on my period, since there was blood on the toilet paper, if I wore tampons, there would be blood all over the seat of my pants, and if I wanted to prevent it, I'd have to put a tampon up my butt too..

Amanda

When I was younger I used to think that a period was when you poop blood cells out of your body and I always referred to it as "blood cells." When I was about 6 or 7 I learned it was called a period.

Anon

I remember when my mother explained periods to me, she said that it's when part of the woman's womb comes away. For ages I thought that meant that you kept losing some until eventually there was no womb left once you were a certain age. Thank goodness for sex ed!

Anon

One time when i was about 9 or 10 i was at my friend's house, and somehow we got onto the topic of periods. My friend said, "My mom got hers the other day, and there were bloody towels in the sink." Then i said, "That's impossible. You stop getting your period after you have babies. Your perioad makes it so you can make babies, so once that's done, so is your period!" My friend believed me and went, "My mom must'va had a nosebleed or something."

fells like an idiot

When I first saw a sanitary pad I thought it was used as a sponge to clean the bathroom, beacuse that's where I usualyy found them. Later I saw the packaging and thought that maybe they were adult diapers.

Taby

I thought that when girls got their period every month it was a one-time thing, like you're sitting watching TV and all of a sudden a small bunch of blood comes out, you change your underwear and you're done. I was too shy to ask anyone and only discovered the truth that spring when I was 12.

Gina

I used to think that as soon as you got your period then you would automaticly have a baby. I don't know how i came up to that belief but i thought that since i first knew abot periods (5) and the year be4 i got my period (11) oops. I am 12 now. he he

hard headed

A few years ago my brother, who is 7 years younger than me and was about 10 at the time, found my tampons and came running in to ask me what they were. Here is how the conversation went:

My brother - Hey, what's a tampon?
Me - What do you think it is?
My brother - (sniggering) Female condoms

We've never let him live that one down

Anon

Because of a very vague explanation by my mother, I used to believe tham women made an egg every month and than flushed it.

I wish it was that easy...

rose

When I started my periods at the age of 10 I didn't know very much about them as my parents had never really discussed it with me. I did know, however, that periods come once a month, so I assumed every period I had for the rest of my life would arrive on exactly the same day each month.

Catherine

i was one of those horrid scab picking kids. before i figured out the reality of the whole menstral thing, i thought women could make the whole thing go away if they picked a scab and bled from somewhere else. kinda like when people say they'll make you forget all about one pain by creating another for you (like stepping on your toe).

yup

when i was little i wanted to go into my mums bathroom, but she said i couldnt go in. so i waited outside the door and heard paper and stuff. i asked what it was an she said it was mummys nappies. so i figured that you wet yourself when you got older.

iwanttobegerman

I used to belive that no-one in my class had got the period.
Because it still had not happend that a girl suddenly stood up looking terrified , and then runned out of the classroom.
And there were a lot of blood on her chair..

Haavard

When I was in primary school a friend told me that the lady teachers had different toilets to us because they got these strange things called "pyramids".

Anon

When I was nine, I found this book in my sisters bedroom called "Your Body." I saw a picture of a girl using a tampon (cartoon ofcoarse). I told my sister that she has to give her self shots in the vagina. She started crying.

JM

my friend thought that tampons were sticks of dynamite... he'd stick them between books on the bookshelf with the string dangling out. and then try and light the end.

Anon