I didnt start my period until i was almost fifteen... around the age of 13 or so I heard a story about twin girls who after never getting their period found out they had been born boys but things didnt develop right. I lived the next two years in terror that I would never get my period and end up having to be a guy for the rest of my life....

Athelas

When I was little, I saw some commercials for tampons and it showed how they expand when they are inside the vagina....
well I thought that a tampon was a way to lose weight and that you had to swallow it and it expanded in your stomach to make you feel full so you would not have to eat!

*Belle

I came in from a date one night to find my 12 year old sister in the bathroom. After telling her several times I needed to use the toilet, she told me she had started bleeding. Thinking Mom had told her already about menstruation, I told her she had gotten her period and supplies were in the cabinet. She still didn't come out and I asked her what was taking so long. She said she would be out when it stopped!

Anon

When i was in like sixth grade i use to think the period was when you vomited blood for a month and then it never happened again i took sex ed a little later in the year

Lilly

When I was little, about 7, I was rooting through my mom's purse while we were driving someplace, and I pulled out a tampon. Of course being 7 I didn't use them yet, or even know about them so I asked what they were and she told me that it was a bandaid... so the next week, my friend came over to my house and we were playing and we got cut, cause kids play rough, so we went up to my mom's room and grabbed 2 tampons and started trying to use them as bandaids, till my mom found us, and after she died laughing she drove my friend home and explained it all to me.

Emma

When I was a little boy, I found my mother's tampons and asked what they were for. She wouldn't tell me, so I decided to try and figure it out by myself.

I noticed that they had a nice convenient loop of string on one end. Perfect for hanging them on doorknobs, so I figured that was what the string was for. I figured that since they hung on doorknobs that the tampons themselves must be fire protectors, so that if the house caught fire, the tampon would prevent the fire from entering that room. My mom got mad and kept removing them from the doorknobs, but still wouldn't tell me what they were for.

Joe Martinez

I used to believe that maxi-pads were some kind of birth control. I remember pretending to understand when my female cousin told me that my grandma didn't need maxi-pads. I figured it was because she lived alone.

jimmy cawky

In the 5th grade when we all watched the film about our periods, I decided that it was all too gross and I wasn't going to do it....so much for mind over matter

Ruby

when I was about 10 or 11–after I knew what getting your period was, but before I understood what the paraphenalia was for– I put my mom and sister in hysterics by asking how 'deodorant' tampons to stayed in your armpits.

summer fresh pits

All during elementary school, I was something of a problem child and ended up in the principal's office at least twice a week. Naturally, every time that happened I would get bored and look around for something interesting to read. One time, I found a flyer aimed at the 6th grade girls about getting your period. I read it front to back and was horrified. I thought it was talking about some fatal disease that all girls get when they grew up. It gave me horrible nightmares about growing up and susequently bleeding to death.

Anon

When my mom was a child, she thought that while girls had periods, boys had hemorrhoids!

Anon

ok.. so when my brother and I were younger, we'd play "pirates" - we had a couple of those cool flintlock pistols that we got at Mouseschwitz (Disneyland).. however, we were missing one important piece to the costume - telescopes!! All pirates needed telescopes. Well, "luckily" for us, mom was being visited by Aunt Flo, and had some spare "telescopes" in the trash!! (tampax applicators) - thinking nothing (and knowing no better) I had my brother take them out of the trash (so I wouldn't be in trouble for digging in the trash) and away we went...
Our mom saw us using them (this was well after a few months worth of use), and stopped us... I'd forgotten about the incident until sex education. Then the (embarassing) memories came back. Needless to say, I didn't ask the instructor what girls did with their "telescopes" during their time of month.

mach3

When my boyfriend was little, he used to believe that tampons were created for women to aim their pee when they stood up and went to the bathroom.

My cousins also believed that maxi pads were shoe inserts and used to shoot my tampons like rockets across my bedroom.

*~Katie

When I was younger I had a friend (Amy) who found some of her mom's pads. She asked Brenda (her mom) what they were and her mom told her they were pads. Well, one day Amy wanted to go rollerblade and her mom told her she needed to wear her pads. So Amy came out with sanitary napkins on her knees and elbows. LOL

The smart friend

i had a friend that had two older borthers. his older brothers had him convinced that he would get his period when he reached puberty. and when he was in middle school he got hit in the kidney while playing football and because of it he peed blood for a day or so, and he announced to everyone that he had finally gotten his period

Anon

I was in middle school when I started my period. I came home from school and thought that I had pooed my pants. I told my mom about it and that is when she told me that I had started my period. I was and still am a Christian, so my response to my mom was that I thought the rapture would come befor my period came. I was disapointed and angry. I never wanted to have to start my period. Looking back on this, it is quite funny and up untill now this used to only be between my mom and I.

Kat

I got so freaked out!!that stuff was suposed to be blue,like on the comercials,not red!!!!!!!!!!!!

blueredblueredblueres...iamconfused

when I was younger, I called "feminine napkins" "feline napkins"... so whenever we were in publin restrooms, I would announce that I needed some for my cat

Jenni

One night I was talking to my boyfriend on the phone and we somehow got on the subject of periods. He then asked me where to put a tampon. I thought he was being sarcastic so I asked him "where do you think they go?" He then said "Well, do they just lay there?" I had to be the first one to explain to him that no, they don't just lay there and also that you take Midol like a tylenol--he thought you just put it up there

Sex-ed teacher aka girlfriend

When I was in 5th grade they school deicided they would teach us about what a period was. They only invited the girls which I thought was kind of odd but paid no attention to it. We watched a movie about it explaining that a period is when you bleed once a month and that you get it around your early teens. I don't know why, but I thought boys got it as well and when I came home that day I told my brother the information I had found out and told him soon he would bleed once a month. He was only 9 and when I told him this he screamed and ran to my mom. After that she explained only girls got periods and that was the end of that..

Michelle