wen i was at a lake with my friends sis (19) and her other sis (7) we found a used tampon in the water. her little sis is like whats a tampon and her big sis said it was cotton used by ppl with bathroom problems!

courty

when i was 13, i was changing for a track meet in the girls bathroom, when a girl i knew walked in, holding a tampon. sill me, growing up with only brothers, didnt know what it was in her hand. the ENTIRE girls track team was in there, getting dressed, when i walked over to the girl with the tampon and asked her "hey! where'd you get that glowstick!?"...i still get laughed at for that to this day

anon

I had to go to the shops and buy some 'female products' and my boyfriend at the time said 'is that for the blue stuff or the red stuff'. I asked him what he meant by 'blue stuff' - because he'd grown up seeing ads where they pour blue liquid onto the products to show how they worked he thought that what came out was actually blue

Anon

When I was eight, I wanted to go swimming with my friend Ella, who was fifteen. She was having her period at the time, and so couldn't go. When I asked why, she told me that blood comes from your bum and your tummy inflates when you get to fifteen. I cried and cried and worried myself sick about her, and then my mom told me what was really going to happen.

Anon

I use to think that sanitary pads were adult diapers and that was why no adults ever peed in there pants. When I asked my mom if I could borrow her diapers- she nearly died from laughter.

Marge

When I was 3 or 4 I learned about menstruation from an exhibit at the science museum. It went into plenty of detail about how the womb's lining drips out the vagina for a week, but it didn't mention that there are little wearable products specially made to catch the drip. So for the next few years I believed that a period was a once-in-a-lifetime event where a woman has to spend the entire week on the toilet.

Anon

When I was little I didn't even know about periods.But as I got older I heard my sister got it, I thought when you got it that you would be in a hole lot of pain.One time I asked my sister
if I hurt really bad, and she said no.

When I first got my period I was very suprised b/c I didn't even feel it.
I just noticed when I was going to the bathroom that there was blood in my underwear.

13

My friend's ittle sister once walked in on her while she was changing a tampon(their bathroom lock doesn't work) and my friend gave her "the talk." A bit later, they were outside and their neighbor-a boy-was acroos the street playing basketball. Her little sister looked at my friend and said "Do you think he has it too?" And she meant a period.

Anon

I was looking after a little boy aged 3 and his friend. They went off to play and I later found them in his parents bedroom with his mums tampons and sanitary towels all over the floor, and they were using the tampons as rockets and the san, towels as launch and landing pads!!!!!!!!! They were having great fun!!!!

anon

I started my periods very early ( I was 10),I didn't even know about periods. It happend over night literally, and when i got up I cried for ages as I thought someone had been in my room and cut my legs. Sorry gross I know, I apologise. And it was the day before I was starting a new school too!!!!!!!!

anon

When i was like in the 5th grade i used to think that only girls with their periods were popular and liked by boys so i would like wish to get my period...it was a rude awakening wehn i got it and i was still not liked by anyone.....

Ugly Duckling

once, i saw blood in the toilet after my mom got up from it. when i asked her about it she said "my egg broke"
Later i learned that a human's egg is very small, like a period in a book. I wondered how so much blood could fit in such a tiny egg.
I hoped it didn't hurt when the egg broke. Whenever i had blood come out of me it hurt. Later i learned, that yes it does hurt when your egg breaks.

supahC

i used to think that a period was when you scratched your clit.

roni

when i was a little girl my mom told me that a period was when a woman cut her thumb each month. boy was i surprised when we watched "the video"!!!!!

Bloody Thumb

This isn't about myself, but I know these girls are going to be in shock pretty soon.
I was in the girl's washroom in 8th grade and as I was leaving these 7th grade girls pointed into a stall and said to me "EWW! There's a tampon in there!" I looked in and there was the paper that you peel off the sticky side of a pad.

I guess the sex ed we took that year really failed them! They are in for a suprise once they see what they really are.

papertampon

I also used to think that Mommies didn't have periods. I thought it went away once you had a baby.

T

This is kind of a personal one, but up until about five years ago I used to believe that cramps and PMS and things were imaginary. I thought girls talked themselves into it, or used it all as an excuse to get away with all sorts of crap a man could never do.

I'm 23 and female; it just took me a while to grow up. I was very, very wrong.

T