An older lad told me and a mate what he had learned about periods during sex education classes, but explained the function as washing away eggs, this cracked me and my mate up who both thought he was trying to tell us our mums would lay eggs once a month
A childhood belief about periods
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that only brown eggs came from chickens. I thought white eggs were made at the store— Destiny
- When I was a kid, I used to believe that cadbury cream eggs real uncooked eggs in the middle Anon
- I didn't understand about boiled eggs until my Mum explained I wasn't supposed to eat the shell as well.— Chris
- I used to believe that bunny rabbits hatched from eggs, since the Easter Bunny gave you eggs.— goat
- My mate used to believe that the lids of yoghurt pots were poisonous, and to this day won't ever lick one.Anon
- I used to think that my testicles were eggs that would become babies when I was older...— Martin