Upon being told by her Mum that women got periods so they could have babies, my best friend (aged about seven at the time) promptly told her that she didn't ever want babies, so she straight-out wouldn't be having any periods. She's currently pregnant with her second child...
A childhood belief about periods
others believed things like this
- a male friend of mine used to think that only women who had been pregnant had periods— oiman
- i used to believe that women wore bras because their periods happened in their boobies.Anon
- When my mom was a child, she thought that while girls had periods, boys had hemorrhoids!Anon
- I also used to think that Mommies didn't have periods. I thought it went away once you had a baby.— T
- I used to believe that Labor Day was when all women had their babies!— Taralyn
- When my sister was little, she believed that women had babies and men had poodles!— Sarah P