My biology teacher in junior high was teaching us about the female reproductive system, and found it the right time to mention the hymen. He told us that there was a small hole for period blood and PEE to get through! U'd think that a fifty-something teacher would know there're two holes...

Carrie

When I was 6, I thought that your period came out of your butt. Later on I was told that it came out, you know where, and when I was at the mall I kept telling people that I thought I was on my period...I was 8!!

Kat

my mom used to tell me that when a girl had her period she could not wash her hair..cause if she did the blood would run to her brain and kill her...needless to say...once a month i had dirty hair...lol

pam b.

When i was 11 years old i got my first period. Not knowing exactly what it was i believed it was the moment in a womans life when she could get pregnant if she had sex. I knew that men squirted some sort of liquid from their penesis, so i remember getting into the bathtub that night and pouring water from the tap directly into my vagina, hoping to get pregnant!!!
i actually rather enjoyed it.

aley

After my mum told me that during a period an egg was released, I was convinced that an egg like a hen's egg came out of a girl(looking like a poached egg in your pants) and that was the reason for wearing sanitary towels!
Why didn't she just give me a fuller explanation?!

Anon

When I was a tot, I went to use the toilet after my mum, and she left something in it that I assumed was the end of a banana dipped in chocolate sauce. I was really confused why she threw that in the toilet, so I thought she was real wack after that. I eventually figured out it was a tampon.

Emma

when i was younger i belived that you had your peiod for the rest of your life!!!!!!but then my mother told me that it came once a month

katrina

When I was 12 and started my period, I discovered it when I went to use the restroom. Mom had already had "The Talk" with me, so I knew what it was. However, I didn't know that I would bleed for days and days. I thought you just bled once, and you were done for the month. Oh, how I wish that were true!

i know better now!

Even at a young age, I understood that some older adults had to use diapers. So when I saw advertisements on TV for maxi pads, I decided they must be another kind of adult diaper--especially since the ads say they help keep "you fresh and dry"!

Maeghan Jade

When I was about 10 or 11 I was at my best friends house and her friend from down the street came over to play for a while.Well, My friends brother came in the room where we were playing and she said something to him that made him mad an he punched her in the stomach an instead of crying or telling she just looked at him and said "You know what happens if you do that!!" Me,My friend and her brother had NO clue what she ment,So after he left we asked her and she thought you had a dozen eggs in your stomach and could could only be hit in the stomach 12 times and if you was hit more you couldnt have babies or your period!

CrazyLittleCowgirl In East Texas

once when i was playin a game with my friend my oldersister and her friend. We were playin an imaginary game type where we were packing stuff because we were going to our den when my sis;s friend goes'Wot if its THAT TIME OF THE YEAR'me and my friend looked at each other quizically then my friend ' oh yes i get the tissues' comes back with a kleenex.

now informed

One day when i was a kid my mom was talking to my older sister about how she hated going to the doctor for her monthly exam. At this I piped up, "I know why you don't want to go to the doctor. Because he's gonna give you your period!" I was fully convinced that that was how it worked. Kind of makes sense right?

Shelly

when i was young the woman in the family did not discuss things like a period or sex. when i started my period i first thought i was bleeding from somewhere inside. which stood to reason because of the terrible tummy cramps i had. still i somehow knew it was something i wasnt supposed to talk about. i was in pain and like that for a day before i got back to my mother who said. thats your period already!!! (i was seven) then she sat a box of pads on the counter for me and left me to figure it out

waya

When I first got my period, I never knew anything about it, so I thought I got a cut on my butt. I really thought I was dying.

Gina

(at age 10)
I was at school eating lunch & I thought I had a tiny leak..Well, it turns out it was me starting my period.When I went to the bathroom w/my friend,Erica,and went into the stall and checked my pants it was all brown and I thought it was poo.I screamed for Erica,I opened the stall door and told her to get my math teacher ,Mrs.Lafavers.When she came , she talked to me cause I was crying and she got the nurse.The nurse came and wrapped a towel around me.I tried to call my Granny but she was at the doctor so my cousin brittney came and picked me up.She laughed with me,not at me,about it all the way to her house.I cant beleive I thought it was poo....

i never had the talk-Allie M.

When I was young about 7 or 8 I was told what a period was. So the day after my 11th birthday I had to spend the weekend at my dad's house ( my parents are divorced ) well I was in my bedroom laying down on my bed and I seen the blood. I wasn't scared cause I knew what to expect. So I yelled for my dad and he came in and seen the blood and he thought I was dying. He was ready to call 911. But luckly I claimed him down and told him just to call my mom and to tell her I started my period. Well he called my mom and said "Um Shirley your daughter has started her um um um um period and um can you PLEASE come over NOW"!!! So my Mom comes and my dad is freaking out. So she came into my room and said "Congrations you have started your period so get use to it cause it'll be with you for along time". Well she talked to my dad and come to found out my dad was always told that a woman has a monthly vistor rather then the right word PERIOD. That is why my dad freaked out cause he never heard of it being called a PERIOD. And what was even worst my mom wouldn't let me come home she made me stay with my dad for a full week with my first period and my dad would have to go with me to the Drug store to buy pads. Thank God he knew what those were LOL.

Ha Ha .

I used to believe that you got periods through your belly button, I got images of women on the beach, with blood poring from their belly buttons!
I have no idea where I got this idea from!
I used to wonder how you used to get tampons in your belly button, I even tried this once when I was ten, only to realise this wasn't possible!

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