When my mum used to talk to my sister about her periods, she used to mention that she'll need clean towels every month.
I thought that a period used to be a monthly holiday!
A childhood belief about periods
others believed things like this
- My mom told my sister that if she didn't eat her peas, her period would last for an entire month.— Maya
- I was horrified when my first period arrived. It wasn't blue, like in the commercials for sanitary towels.— Jane
- For years I thought that spunk was a male period and that boys spunked once a month - Yeah right!— Stupid Child
- My sister believed that october was the 10th month!— Sally
- When I was little my sister told me salt was ground up dinosaur bones...I barley ate for a month...— Chandler
- I convinced my sister that chocolate milk was made out of Keebler cookie elves, she believed me for a month— Rainbow Steel