I used to believe that women always had milk coming from their breasts and when they had a baby it drunk the milk, but when women didn’t have a baby they had to put cotton wool in their bras to absorb the milk. I thought this was called ‘having a period’, and these periods lasted until a woman had another baby. And a woman always had to wear a bra to put the cotton wool in to absorb the milk.
My mum told me that if I was naughty and refused to do a poo she would put soap up my bum, and I thought that that would make me poo.
A childhood belief about periods
others believed things like this
- that black women breastfed chocolate milk instead of white milkAnon
- I thought strawberry milk comes from baby cows— Calf = Strawberry milk
- When we were little my sister thought if you mixed cow’s milk and water you’d get goat’s milkAnon
- I didn't believe that a cow's milk and the milk in the fridge were at all related!Anon
- Met a man who thought every woman could give milk, whenever, wherever.— Missed that bullet
- I used to beleive that milk bottles were filled with milk, directly from the cow's udder.Anon