I first got my period when I was in Singapore on holiday almost twenty years ago. My mother had warned us about not drinking from the taps for fear of getting a tummy bug, and had told me and my brother off serverely for buying and eating an ice cream from a street vendor... When my period came for the first time it was brown rather than red! Despite being informed on periods, with all the lectures on tummy infections I was sure that the brown discharge was due me dying...I was so worried that my mother would be angry at me I threw out my underwear for the rest of the trip - luckily we were on our way home in just two days!
A childhood belief about periods
others believed things like this
- as a young child i thought poo was brown from eating chocolate and pee was yellow from drinking apple juice!Anon
- Drinking coffee before your 12 yrs, old will make the white in your eyes turn brown.— dawn b.
- That you had to marry your sibling. During this period of time I devoliped a crush on my brother.— don't worry I'm a girl
- i used to thought that period is when you pee like a baby for a few days...— i'm totally weird
- when i was a kid my mother told me that when the ice cream man was playing his music he was out of ice cream— Lynnzea
- My mom always used to tell me that brown eggs came from brown chickens.— Taylor