I used to believe that tampons were noise makers that would make a loud sound if you pulled the strings... That is until I tried it in secret and nothing happened......

Anon

I used to believe that menstruating meant you were diseased, so when my mom got her period I thought she had a rare disease. :D

Anon

The first time I used a tampon my mother sent me in to the bathroom to try it out. I was so scared I couldnt believe THAT THING could fit in me. When I came out I asked my mom why it hurt to sit down. I thought the applicator was supposed to stay in too! No wonder it hurt. We still giggle about it to this day!

L B

When I was younger I used to pray God to make me have nosebleeds instead of periods...Can you believe that I would rather bleed where everyone could see me vs having periods...That would have been awful

Lily

I did not start wearing tampons until I started having sex because I was under the impression that the tampon would take my virginity

lily

I used to believe that when you had your period, you just stopped peeing, because your thingy would be busy bleeding, and it couldn't produce blood and pee at the same time, right? Then I figured out that there are TWO HOLES down there.....and I was one of the *smarter* kids when I was younger, lol.

Anonymous

This happened about the time I was first starting to use the toilet on my own.

My mom would take me to the bathroom, and sometimes I would notice that she would put these weird things in her underwear. I thought that it was there so that she could pee without having to go to the bathroom. I wanted to do the same thing, so when she wasn't looking, I used to wad up some toilet paper and put it in my underwear too.

When I was eleven and got my first period, it all made sense...

Funky Cold Candita

i thought tampons were candles

oops

When my mom told me about periods when I was 10, I thought you peed out blood once and then you were done. I kept checking for blood every time I peed!I was fraid it might hurt.

Cathy Pee.

When I was younger, I thought couples had to have sex every day, once a day. However, I couldn't for the life of me figure out what to do when the girl is on her period...

anonymous

I knew about periods, since alot of girls I knew had one, and my mom had explained that I would start bleeding & etc. But when I first got my period, I started (sorry for being sorta disqusting) "Browning", and at first I just let it go. Then, about a day or two later, it was starting to get alot worse & I litterally thought I was pooing from the front! I was sure that I was seriously dieing, & was crying & saying things like "I can't believe this is happening to me, now I'm going to die, it's not fair!" until my mom smiled & explained that sometimes you "Brown" before you get your period because of the build-up. I feel so stupid now XD

Melissa

when iwas in third grade i remmerber reading dear God its me margert and it had something to do with periods.. well i was soo stupid and after pestering my mom and sister and siters friend about telling me.. i realized they wouldnt. so at school my freinds told me it was when your nipples bled

sdfsdfsf

When I was young I never got the sex ed class. So one day I was playin on a wagon and hurt my privates on the bar. I started my period that night and thought it was from hurting my privates and yelled that I had to go to the hospital. My mom laughed at me for hours.

California kid

I have to:

When I was in my first year of Sex Ed, (i was probably about 10, my school started telling us these things early) the teacher showed us a tampon. She told us that it was like a pad rolled up into a tube, and that if we used them there woulf be directions in the box, so she didnt need to explain ow. This left me with some wrong assumptions. I thought that tampons were just what she'd said, rolled up pads, and that women would use them at work, or in the public toilets, because they were easier to carry and more inconspicuous to take out of your purse.

After alll my misunderstandings had be cleared up, i felt that i knew eveything about getting periods. When mine came when I was 12, i wasn't too alarmed, because i knew that it would come sooner or later. A few months later, i was at the seaside with my best friend. WE knew everything about eachother, and naturally i told her that the reason i had a bad stomach ache was that i had my period. When we were at the beach, she pulled my aside and said "WAit, i forgot, you cant go in the water, or you'll attract sharks!" HEr parents (very religious and kind of old fasioned) had told her that using tampons made you lose your virginity, and she had read someplace that blood in the water makes sharks come.

Girl whose brother used to think that tampons were those little plastic parachute men

when i was about 13 i began to ask questions about periods because i would hear my sis and mom talk about them. My sister told me that if i didnt have my period by the time i was 15 i would die. I ofcorse believed her and when i turned 15 and still hadent had it....i cried untill my explained that i wasnt gonna die.I'm still just as gullible!

Gina

My parents never were (and still aren't) the kind to make one feel real comfortable talking about a lot of things with them. So, as a little girl when I first heard of menstruation as something girls would grow up to have, I was very curious but had no inclination to ask my parents about it. Instead, I asked the closest person to me at the time, an uncle, who isan't as much older than I as you'd tend to suspect from his being my uncle. At first he was reluctant and asked me why I didn't ask my mother about this matter. I treid to explain that I wasn't comfortable talking to her. Finally, what he opted to do was check out a library book on the subject, written for young girls, and have us read it together, with him helping me with "big" words and the like. As that made him open up on the subject, I found he really knew a great deal about it after all. He told me a bunch more than was in the book. All of it turned out to be accurate except one thing. He told me that when girls start menstruating, that takes the place of pooping so that they don't poop anymore. Later when I started menstruating but continued pooping, I was distressed and thinking something was bad wrong with me. Finding out the truth made me mad at my uncle for years. But he in time would convince me that he told me what he honestly believed at the time, and now we're friends again. I've found out that his big sister put a lot of crazy ideas in his head. He doesn't remember whether that was one of them or not. But I consider it a safe bet that it was. Safe enough that you can guess who my least favorite aunt is!

Lauren