My mom never told me about girls getting a period...When I was 10 yrs. old I woke up one morning to having some blood in my panties, well I thought I scratched myself in my sleep but I was very PRIVATE girl and did not go to my mother about it...as the day progressed I saw drops and tried looking with a mirror to see where I scratched myself...NO LUCK!!...the next morning I woke up and there was even more blood spots so I put BANDAIDS all over my private area but to no avail it continued and was only getting worse...so I finally went to my mother TOTALLY EMBARESSED to say "Mom I scratched myself and it just wont stop bleeding and I have tried using bandaids to cover the scratch but it's not working"...Needless to say my mother wanted to see and when I showed her or rather she could tell it waas not a scratch but my first period...It took everything for her to not laugh at the site of bandaids everwhere from front to back...She proceeded to tell me then what it was...One thing she told me was now I was a "Woman" so to speak and I had to stay away from boys..lol...I sure made sure when I had my daughter to tell her very early on about this subject...lol

SP

I had to tell my 17 year old boyfriend that when a girl has her period the blood actually comes OUT of her body. He was extremely grossed out! I still haven't figured out what he thought happened to it!

Emily

Once, me and my next-door-neighbour, who was a boy, found my mum's pads under the sink. We, being only 4 and no knowing what they were, assumed they were for protecting your head. We stuck them to our foreheads and ran outside to play. The whole road witnessed this, including my friend's dad, and mum was red, to say the least!

Holl

At the age of around six I overhead my mother talking to an older cousin about periods. I could tell this was grown up business from the hushed tones they spoke in. I asked what was a period, and was told rather mystically (or so I remember) that I would know I had grown up when I got an egg with blood in it.

This entirely changed the context of boiled/poached/fried eggs for me. I would become alarmed as soon as I saw one on my dinner plate, and hack it to bits for fear it might contain the blood of my transition to womanhood.

A few years later, classroom gossip revealed that, in fact, I would require pads to cover my nipples from which blood would squirt ferociously during this perplexing and scary monthly occurence.

And they say childhood is the best time of your life.

Clairey Moo

My friend noticed, when watching her mum come out of the bath one night that there was a white string dangling between her legs. When she asked her mum what it was, her mum answered that she had a mouse living in her tummy...for years my friend believed this and told everyone about the mouse...!

Anon

when i was around 9 years old, i went to my friend's house with several of our other friends. we found her mother's tampons, and tried putting them in to see what it was like. anyways, my friend came out of the bathroom and said she felt constipated. it turned out she had stuck it up her bum.

luna

Alright, have two for you.

When I was around 6, I stumbled upon my mom's tampons. For some unknown reasons, I thought they were used for catching flies. So every day after school I'd unwrap a tampon, take it apart, and try to catch a fly in it. When I finally managed to, I ran down to show my mom. She got a good laugh out of that..

Secondly, around the same age I also found mom's pads. Being the curious kid that I was, I unwrapped a few of those two. I thought that they were a special kind of slippers. I stuck two to the bottoms of my feet, and walked around on them for a long time, before my mom finally noticed, and took them away. Bummer.

Tam

When I was 5 or so I found a dirty tampon somewhere. I asked an older friend what it was and she replied simply "a tampon". i didnt want to seem stupid so i didnt ask what it was for. I then decided it was for bloody noses and was convinced that you stuck them up your nose when it bled. Imagine my moms suprise when i came up to her with a bloody nose and asked for a tampon.

Bella

In 4th grade, I didn't pay much attention in the "Getting to know your body" class, and it said something about the egg getting caught in the lining of the uterus and becoming pregnant, or so I thought. So I thought you could get pregnant without having sex, and I freaked out. I think I even had my mom convinced for a while, too. I freaked out and tried to stay as straight up and down as I could so the egg wouldn't go to the sides of my uterus.

EmAufder

Once when I was three my mom told me to set the table with napkins because our family was coming over for dinner. I had to go to the bathroom before I set the table. While I was in the loo I saw a package of my mom's pads. It said sanitary napkins so i piked up the box, went into the dining room, and set the table with my poor mother's pads! My family thought that was pretty funny...

Dyth

I used to think that my mom's pads were slippers. i put the sticky side on my feet and walked around in them with the wings taped to the side.

Little Girl

When my family and I where at a very nice restaurant,I chose to eat spagetti.It was really messy and I needed a napkin.I was like "Mommy I need to use the restroom."She was too busy talking and just simply pointed to where it was.I was like 7 so i felt like I was finally a big girl.Well earlier my mom gave me 50 cents to get something out of the quarter machines and what I got was something only worth a quarter,so I had a quarter left over.I had just began to learn to read and saw the word napkin in the bathroom. I used my 25 cents and wiped the spagetti sauce off and shoved the"napkin" in my pocket. When the waiter came to pick up our plates he asked me if I was done with my plate, I was like wait heres my napkin.I reached in my pocket and pulled it out and put it on the plate. Every1 at the table cracked up laughin, the waiter wasnt to happy!

Kirby

I can't remember if this was a dream or not, but once when I was young I had a particularly nasty stomach-ache. I had seen an ad for a pill to stop pain during periods and surmised that a period was a bad stomach-ache. I went up to my father and said "Dad, I'm having a period." I couldn't think why he was laughing.

Guys don't have periods. Full stop.

when i first started my period nobody had told me that it was a normal thing for girls to go through. things like that just weren't talked about. so every month when i started to menstrate i thought i was dying of cancer.

christy

When I was younger, I saw a commercial for pads where the woman was at some party and it was like "I was so embarressed because I leaked, I had to go home with a jacket wrapped around my waist." I thought that it ment that the woman had to go to the bathroom..and the line was so long, she accidentally wet herself, and so with the new maxi-pads, she wouldn't have to wait in line!
After I saw that, My dad,mom,my brother and I were at a gas-station and were waiting in line for the one person bathroom..my dad and brother had to pee really bad, and I didn't want them to be embarressed if they wet themselves..so I screamed "Daddy, we should get you some maxi-pads!"

Okay, so yeah..my mom had to have a little chat with me afterwards.

Kate

I used to believe period blood came from the nipples. I thought that was what "padded bras" were for!!

Anon

When I was i kid, my mother used to send me to the store to buy he sanitary napkins.She would give me an envelope with a note and money in it.When I got to the stor,the woman would read the note, go in the back room,and come out with a wrapped up box. I thought my mother was a spy for many years!
Matthew

matthew

a few months ago i was babysitting a young girl. i had set my purse down and had gone off to make the dinner for a moment. when i came back she asked me "what are these?" and had taken out my sanitary napkins and was examining them closely. i didn't know what to do, and i didn't think it was right for me to give her the birds-and-bees talk without her parents consent, so i told her they were surprises. she took this to mean that they were wrapped gifts. after all, they were wrapped in pink paper! i have never seen a kid so dissappointed when i told her she couldn't open them.

Kate!

When me and my sister were younger we use to beg mommy to show us what color her period was when she got it. We thought that it was a different color every month. Mommy didn't want to explain the "proces" so she would color a pad different color every month. She would even let us keep it. It was later on that we found out the truth and were deeply upset at mommy for lyeing to us and threw away are pad collection.

The Ditzy Dorky Duo!!!!

I had always known about periods (older sister), but I wasn't too familiar with a tampon.
One day, me and my friend Brett were hanging out in my friend's room. We found a box of tampons, and without really reading to see what they even were, we thought it'd be a fun little idea to take a few out, and play with them a little. So, still without knowing what the heck a tampon was, i took two and taped them to Brett's ears as EARRINGS! He wore them into the living room, where our friend's mom was having a party!!!! We were so embarrassed when we really found out what they were. LOL!

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