The first time I used a tampon I didn't know you had to remove the cardboard after you slide the tampon in. Ouch!!! It really hurt and I decided there was no way I was gonna use these things. Finally someone told me how to use them properly.
A childhood belief about periods

others believed things like this
- when i was 11, i used to beieve that if you wore a tampon u were NOT consider as a virgin— the stupid one
- I used to think that if you sneezed while wearing a tampon it would shoot out like a rocket. — Crazy Kid
- i used to think that you pull the string on a tampon and it would roll out to make a sanitary towelAnon
- When I was a child I used to belive that if I put on cardboard wings I could fly like a bird.Anon
- I used to believe that if you drove over a banana peel the car would slide off the road.Anon
- I used to think that the penis was a sausage and that they could remove it and cook it.— L