i used to think periods were a way of bein punished imagine my shock when i startrd

confused

When I was little, I once believed that pads were used for wiping tables... until my mom told me they were used to suck up blood. So I used it as a band=aid.

Sunny

i thought pads were candybecause of the way they were wrapped up and all.

terri

One time I accidentally walked in on my mom changing her pad in the bathroom (it was a new one, so I didn't see any blood). Surprised, I asked her what that was. Seeing as I was too young then to understand what a menstrual cycle is, my mom thought up on the spot "it's a type of grown up diaper".

For a long time I thought to myself "well, what's the point of being potty trained if adults end up wearing diapers anyway?"

Aleks

It happened to someone I know. Two kid brothers found their mother's tampons and, not knowing what they were, colored them and pretended that they were toy rockets. Then they took them to school--CATHOLIC school. I can only imagine what those poor nuns were thinking...

Meaghan Jade

I was about 10, and I was in the 4th grade. I saw this link on my homepage from my internet provider, and it gave this mini-picture of a girl. She was drawn up, not a real picture of a girl. It said, "When will I get my period?" At that time, my mind had just begun to understand that girls got their periods. I had known about them, but never really understood about them. I had watched a T.V. show where a girl got her period at school and it leaked through her cream-colored skirt. So, I decided to click the link and read the article. After reading it once or twice, I was horrified. I thought that once a girl got her period, she WOULD, not COULD, become pregant! After reading the article again, I realized my mistake. Thank god I realized it before I got my period!

V

I use to think pads were for people with bladder problems. But I could never figure out what the red dot was for until later.

Diana

my friend told me that you cant hav a baby if you dnt have "pryamids" by this i thought she ment, trianglur boobs, wen i saw my flat chest i started to cry, bu she sed i can abortion when im older(by which she ment adoption) wen i went home ansd told my mam i was gonna hav an abortion wen i was older, she told me about periods, but i couldnt manage to sey periods, and i called them pryamids, and still thought that wen u bled, it would come out in a pyramid shaped block, lol

hehehe

When I was about 13, I got my period. I knew that if people lost a lot of blood they would die. One day, while on my period, I got a cut on my arm. Feeling frustrated, I murmured to myself "This can't be happening! If lose any more blood I'll die!" As you can probably tell, I'm not a brunette nor a redhead...I'll let you figure out the rest ;)

Alias

i thought that when you started your period u hav 1 4 1 day a week 4eva! now of course i know what really happens

how strange?

My mother always used to tell me not to be afraid when I started to see blood in my underwear. She explained the whole thing about having periods, and it scared me to death. I thought that once you started, you never stopped.

Anon

i thought tampons were butt plugs!

Anon

Mum and I went to the school 'mums and daughters night' to see a film about the body etc, well after finding out about periods and bleeding I thought once a girl started to bleed it never stopped! what a relief to eventually find out that was wrong

inocent

This isn't really funny, but it is dumb. When I was about 10, I didn't have my period yet. So I would wonder what tampons were for and what pads were for. I knew it had something to do with periods. I would see commercials for tampons that would say "So comfortable, you can't even feel 'em." So, then I decided pads were like tampons. So I took a pad from my sister and put it on. In my room, I would pretend I was in a commercial and was doing an add for pads, thinking they were exactly like tampons. I was mad because I COULD feel the pad. I was happy once I finally realized how wrong I was during puberty classes!

Anon

When I first got my period I was not scared at all because my 3 older sisters had theres and I thought I knew all about them, so I never told my Mum, I just pinched my sisters pads. However I never new they stopped after a few days, I thought they just kept going - because mine did - I had a hormone problem. But after 5 months of this I decided to finally tell my Mum. I had been fainting a lot. I was taken to the doctor and put on special tablets to stop it and given iron.

Rae

I used to think that the paper that was used to wrap tampons and pads was very pretty and nicely decorated so I asked my mom where exactly she got this "Pretty Paper."

The Pretty Paper

I used to believe that period pads were aeroplane stickers and thinking that they were really pretty, used to colour them in and stick them up everywhere.

Silly Tasha

I started my period when I was eleven. Not long afterwards I went to stay with my two twin cousins (who were a year younger and had not yet started their period) and my Aunt in their beach house for two weeks out of the summer.
I started my period for about the thrid time not long after I got to their house and was upset and embarrassed because I thought I wouldn't be able to go swimming with them, then they would ask why not.. and I didn't want to tell them that!

I ended up telling my Aunt my "problem" and she suggested that I use the Tampons underneath the sink in the bathroom. I felt like I was able to understand the directions quite clearly on the back of the box after studying them intently for more than a half an hour. So I pulled the bottom part of the applicator from the top piece (figuring it was just a useless piece of plastic) and proceeded to shove the rest of the entire applicator in. I didn't use Tampons for a very long time after that week because of how uncomfortable they felt.

It wasn't until years later that I figured out how they REALLY worked. Needless to say, I felt pretty stupid.

Angela

once me and my friend stuck her mums tampons up are butts thinking that you didnt have to poo

ha ha ha ha