One day, I had my friend from school over. We were about 7, I think. We were playing dolls in my room when out of the blue, she asked me: "Have you had your period yet?"

Being the somewhat bodily uneducated child that I was, I said "What's that?"

She answered "I think it's where girls bleed every once in a while."

The conversation went as following:

Me: "Oh, I've never heard of that."

Her: "Me neither. I just heard about it today."

Me: "Maybe not every girl has one."

Her: "Yeah, I think you're right."

We went on playing.

I know better know. XD

period girl

i remember being in my parents room, i must have been around 7 or 8 at the time, and i came across a box of tampons. so i went through the whole box and opened and cut the strings off of every single one. then she had to sit me down and explain what they were to me.

tampon gurl

At 10, we had the "period and puberty" talk from a health visitor at school. She was quite an old person and told us lots of things wrong. Like she said sanitary towels were the only option and there was nothing else we could use so we couldnt do any sport or go swimming during our period. And that we were never allowed to tell the lads in our class anything that she told us. I ended up with a lot of false information after that,

M

When I was seven, I use dto believe a woman would die fro getting her period. She would bleed to death.

Tiff

When I was really little I used to believe tampons were for keeping a woman's pubes from getting inside her. Some genius on the subject of periods I was. :P

Kai

i used to believe that when i put a tampon the plastic was supposed to stay on. this was around the time the "pearl girl" phase of tampons first came out, and i remember being in violent pain every time i used one. I dont know how, but i even got the stick part of the applicator in therre!

sarah.

I was in Grade 7 and we were learning about internal injuries in our First Aid Class. The symptoms were:
Headache
Persistent pain in the abdomen that does not go away
Vomiting/vomiting blood
Passing blood (Like when you pee)

A day later, I woke up with a headache and stomachache, they didn't go away. When I went to school, the stomachache got so bad that I threw up, so I had to go to the nurse. I found some blood in my underwear and in the toilet. So I was convinced I had like punctured my stomach or something and told the nurse so. Except then she told me I got my period. Huh. Imagine that. And the worst part is that I knew everything about getting your period, so it's not like I was clueless or anything.

Oh Canada!

I saw feminine napkins in the bathroom as a child. I thought they were padded toilet paper for the softer feminine persuasion

rodneyb3012

I remember sitting on my bed, reading a magazine, when I saw a tampon ad. I sat there for the longest time trying to figure out where it went. Because the ad said 'odor absorbing,' I thought it went on your armpit. That was just one theory.

Bettie

When I first got my period, I didn't know how to use a tampon. I thought that you just had to squeeze it and it would just shoot up inside you. I wasted ALOT of my friends tampons trying to work that out.

sjh

I used to believe that if you had a period then you had an awful internal disease, and would have to be rushed to hospital where a nurse would put a thing called a pad up your butt and a pamton in your knickers. I know better now and don't get the names mixed up anymore.

Amaryllis

When I was little, I used to think that tampons were for cleaning out the toilet

weird

When i was in 4th grade we had a talk in class about puberty and we had a movie we had to watch about it well...they accidently switched the movies and the guy's got the girl one and we got the guy one it didn't take to long to figure it out but well the guys were realy imature about it

Anon

When I was about 9 and hanging out with the older girls at the boarding school, they were talking about periods of which I knew nothing but pretended I did. They convinced me that boys had periods too and had pads shaped like hot dog buns to fit over their penis to catch the blood. I think I believed that until I was 13!

ClasicRed USA

When I was little, I always thought the pad despenser in public bathrooms gave you sugar cubes. I'm not sure why but I was always mad when my mom said I wasn't old enough to need one.

mandy

I had a friend who i was staying with on her dad's lakehouse. Her dad's girlfriend brought along her kid who was like, 10. me and my friend were both 14. We both knew alll about periods and stuff. she had a tampon in her makeup bag and we were sitting in her room doing our makeup. The 10 year old Kyle, walked in and started talking to us. He was poking though her makeup bag and saw the tampon. He said "what's this?" and my friend said "lipgloss". we started cracking up when he left.

anomous