i used to believe your period was a shot grown-ups got and it makes you pee blood.i learned the truth when i was about 10,in fourth grade heath.

Anon

My mother didn't personally explain the "facts of life" to me, I think -- I was given a book that I was free to read whenever I got curious. I got a lot of accurate info this way, except for one little thing. I believed that men had an equivelant to the women's "time of the month."

It was only fair, after all!

Yubi

when i was young (in about 1st or 2nd grade) i used to think that girls bled out of their nipples because i heard one of my older friends talking about bleeding.

Anon

As a little girl, I thought only SOME girls would get their period. So, naturally, I thought it would never happen to me... Then came my huge surprise at nine years old, went I noticed blood in my panties... I ran out of the bathroom crying and screaming for my mom, I couldn't believe it had actually happened to me. I still cried for the next few months before I finally understood and realized that ALL girls had periods, and not just a few unlucky ones...

Lizzie

I used to believe that tampons were used to get rid of spots(?)

Michelle

When I was about 10 my sister got her period and I was sad because I thought getting your period meant you were a woman and I wanted to be a woman already. I actually started crying because I was the only one in the house who didn't have hers!

Anon

When i first got my period, i didnt know what it was cuz it didnt look like blood. i thought i had pooped my pants until the thought came to me that it was my period.

did i poop my pants?

One time I was having a sleepover.I invited ALL my
friends! At night, when everyone was in bed, i went
to the toilet. What i didn't know was that my friend
Becky, went to the toilet before me! When i saw
blood, EVERYWHERE, i screamed! I woke the
WHOLE house! I thought it was me who was bleeding, not Becky! When i'd realised, you can
definitely say i was embarassed! My mum even said that i had ruined her beauty sleep! Next time i
have a sleepover, i'm not going to panic, when i see
blood!

I'm sooooooooooo embarassed!!!!!!!!!!

When I first got my period I thought I was dying.
I started crying I'm like "Mommy I have cancer!" and she's like "what?" I told her i saw blood in my pants and she just started laughing. Don't think I'm a Dee Dee Dee or anything I was ten I wish someone could have told me earlier.

Shannon the comedian

I used to believe that every woman had a period one time only, when she was exactly 20, and it was peeing out blood.

Abby

I was about 8 years, and I heard some friends talking about the period. I asked what it was, and the answer was:
"You bleed in your bottom. Only girls can get it"
I was like:
"Cool! I'm looking forward to get the peroid!" I thought we girls only got the peroid once in a life. And then: Finish with it.
I'm not that stupid now.

Anon

I believed that periods were one-time spurts of blood. After I got mine and saw that I was still bleeding later, I assumed I must have hurt myself somehow and didn't tell my mom.

(I wish they only lasted for that one second...)

RD

Condoms are something men use when they are having their period.

Vibeke

I used to think that a period was the pubic hair.

Stephanie

When I was young, I thought that once a woman got her period, she bled constantly for the rest of her life. I didn't understand why the puberty books contained guidance on how to determine whn your period ends. I was really scared.

Anon

When I was 9 I had a friend who got her period. We were both facinated. I asked my cousin (whos a 10 year old boy) what it was, he said it was when a girl was about to die because a period means the end. He said, "All girls get it. Some earlier than others." I took a class about it and I learned what it really was. I will not let him get over it!

NOYB

When i was about 10 and i had my first period, i did not know what it meant.
So when i first saw it i thought i got blood cancer and i went crying to my mom sayin i had got blood cancer. Then she explained me what it actually was.

My Friend

When i was in 4th grade, i went to the bathroom, i opened one of the stalls (u know how u check to see is the toilet is empty and stuff) and i saw blood in the toilet!!!! i though that it was from someone bleeding and dying, so i ran to my classroom and went right up to my female teacher and said "THERE'S BLOOD IN THE POTTY!!"(i though i had saved the day) this happened to me a few times and whenever i told her she'd just be like, okay. i would always be so mad at her for not making a big deal

lee

Up until the day I got my period I thought it would be a lot like going to the bathroom. You'd feel a pressure near your bladder, excuse yourself to use the bathroom and blood would come out insted of pee.

Puck