When was about 7 years old, my family went to sizzler and my mom let me go to the bathroom by myself.
I found an empty tampax carboard tube on the floor. I had never seen one before. So I brought it out to the table announcing that I had found a "telescope" in the bathroom.
My grandmother (having never used tampons apparently) didn't see what the problem was about me playing with this object.
Natch my mother and sister were mortified! I still laugh (and am grossed out) about this incident to this day!
A childhood belief about periods
others believed things like this
- I used to think that tampons were meant to absorb women's urine so they wouldn't have to go to the bathroom.— Koyaanisqatsi
- i used to belief that tampons were rolled up pads in a tubeAnon
- Grandmother told me if I whistled in the bathroom the devil would come get me because I was whistling for him.— Peanut @ Lake Tawakoni Tx
- That blue cheese was made by scraping mould off bathroom walls. My mother actually told me that.— sandee
- When I was little, I believed that if I didn't go to the bathroom quick enough, I would actually explode.— Coco S.
- I used to believe disneyland was under my sister bed. I was well dissapointed when I found out she was lying!— Joe B