I used to think that pads were adult diapers in case you had to go to the washroom during long meetings at work. The commercials always showed business women.

Anon

I'm 8 years older than my little male cousin and he needed to use the bathroom when we were out somewhere. I took him in the women's bathroom as he was young and told him to wash his hands. When he went to grab a paper towel he saw a machine that said "NAPKINS-25 CENTS". He said,"why would someone pay 25 cents for a napkin when they can get these for free?" I said, "I don't know, those are for fancy people I guess."

big cuz

The first time I used a tampon I didn't know you had to remove the cardboard after you slide the tampon in. Ouch!!! It really hurt and I decided there was no way I was gonna use these things. Finally someone told me how to use them properly.

Tequilatwister2

I used to think my mum's tampons were 'Torpeados' I deeply disapointed when I tried to sink a toy submarine in the bath!!!

Anon

When we were little my sister and I believed women put tampons up their butts to either prevent them from pooping or to catch the poo. I have no idea what caused this belief, but I remeber not questioning it. I totally believed it. Consequently, I thought that all women used tampons every day.

Seca

When I was in primary school a friend told me that the lady teachers had different toilets to us because they got these strange things called "pyramids".

Anon

When i was about ten, my mum explained 2 me about periods. i was really scared about coming on. one time @ school i cud feel a little bit of sumthin rubbin between my legs. i was convinced the egg had cum out. i was scared that blood would start to gush out at any moment so i ran to the toilet. wen i pulled down my knickers i realised that the "egg" was in fact a tiny bit of tissue paper.

sillybilly

When I was around 4 or 5 I had a babysitter after preschool. Well one day, I went into her bathroom and found some tampons ( this was when they were in cardboard still). At first I started thinking that it was a prize and she had hidden them around the house. So, I went and looked in the cupboard beneath the sink, and there were so many. I toke them out to her and said ' I found them all! But, you might want to think about changing the cotton candy flavor inside. I think it went bad." I had eaten the cotton in the tampon and thought it was cotton candy. Now when I look back, I am so embrassed, and I still see her sometimes too!

omg why did i have to be a dumb kid ].[

On my mother's birthday some years ago, my little brother didn't know what to give her, so he gave her a pad. He thought that it was a present, being small and covered in coloured plastic.

Muffin

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 when i was about 9 and my puppy had her period, and i asked my mom "why is there blood all over the floor?" and she told me that ginger was losing teeth. then, at my thirteenth birthday, i asked my mom "can dogs get periods?" (i know random) and she told me "yes remeber when ginger had hers" and i screamed loud enough for everybody to hear, no lie, "ginger got her period? you told me she was losing teeth!" it is still i assume a humorous topic.

katie

I used to believe that the egg that a woman shed during her period would be visible to her and that way she would know that she wasn't pregnant.

Sarah

When I was little and I saw my mom getting undressed I used to wonder why she had a piece of blue string out of her bottom.I used to offer to pull it out for her.

Silly Lily

when i was 12, i started my periods, when i first woke up that very day, i thought i had wet the bet, because it was soaked, but when i saw that it was brown, i thought that i must have pooped the bed. I tried to hide it but the rest of my family found out. I robbed a few of my sisters pads and tampons, and piled up 9 pads and 4 tampons in my underwear, because i thought i just couldn't stop wetting myself, or pooping myself. i didnt quite no what periods were, coz i was off for the sex talk in school.Everyone in school noticed i had huge bulges in my underwear, and that the pads and tampons would keep slipping out and hanging below my skirt, coz i hadn't stuck them in. I got so embarrassed, because someone told the teacher that i had robbed something and snuck it in my underwear, so i had to lower my knickers, and the 4 tampons and 9 pads fell out onto the floor, i was embarrassed, because they put me in a diaper for the rest o the day, and told me about periods

Anon

When my friend's little brother was about three, he discovered the pads under the bathroom sink. We told him that girls put them on their privates (why we would tell this to a three-year-old is beyond me). So he decided to try one on. He proceeded to strip naked and put the pad on his privates--he literally stuck it on himself. When we saw him, we couldn't stop laughing. And when we pulled it off, the look on his face...

Anon

When I was about 10 or 11 I was at my best friends house and her friend from down the street came over to play for a while.Well, My friends brother came in the room where we were playing and she said something to him that made him mad an he punched her in the stomach an instead of crying or telling she just looked at him and said "You know what happens if you do that!!" Me,My friend and her brother had NO clue what she ment,So after he left we asked her and she thought you had a dozen eggs in your stomach and could could only be hit in the stomach 12 times and if you was hit more you couldnt have babies or your period!

CrazyLittleCowgirl In East Texas

I used to believe tampons were for people with bloody noses. thats what i thought a period was. because my mom has nosebleeds and i thought she stuck tampons up her nose when it happened. so i thought this happened to everyone, even guys because my grandpa (her dad) gets nose bleeds too.
once i walked in the bathroom and saw that my grandpa was having a nose bleed and was wiping his nose. I shouted "oh grandpa its ok that your on your period because my mom has tampons under the sink for your nose." lol i cant believe that. i was only about 3.

Talan's Girl

Well my brother overheard my mom and me talking about how i had gotten my period for the first time, so my brother thought it was when women pee'd on their pants and blood came out of there butts but only women who had kids, i was shy when he asked me all of this so a agrred and until this year now his 13 he found out the truth. lol

NATHALIE =)

my son around 4yrs old believed that everyone got their periods. once i took him to the dr and he had secretly put on one of my moms pads. when the dr checked him down there, he asked me why he was wearing it. my son was giggling so hard. the dr was angry cause he thought i had done incase my son had an accident. while i was trying to explain i didnt know, my son was still giggling.

he hates when i tell that story now.

secret

When I was an innocent 9 year old, my mum gave me a book on pubety and sex. It disturbed me greatly that I was going to start laying eggs (like a chicken in my mind) when I reached about 11 years old!

Sal