when i was little, i walked into the bathroom and looked in the toilet to see blood in it. horrified i ran to my mother and told her what i have found. she said that when girls get a certain age, they get their periods, which makes them pee out blood, and that it was hers. i then thought that when i a girl got her period, she would always have it, but could hold it in like pee.. was i ever wrong.
A childhood belief about periods
others believed things like this
- when I was young, I heard that blood had iron in it. I thought blood was red because it was rusty.— Hunter
- I used to believe period blood came from the nipples. I thought that was what "padded bras" were for!!Anon
- HA! I used to think when you got your period, you would just pee blood...I wish it was like that...if only.Anon
- I used to believe that salt would dry up all of my blood because my mother told me so.— Charlotte H
- I used to believe that guns shot out blood because everytime somebody shot a gun in a movie you saw blood.Anon
- We were always told that if we drank vinegar our blood would dry up— Mike B. London