when I was about 10 or 11–after I knew what getting your period was, but before I understood what the paraphenalia was for– I put my mom and sister in hysterics by asking how 'deodorant' tampons to stayed in your armpits.
A childhood belief about periods
others believed things like this
- I never knew how tampons worked, I always thought they would fit in a female flat, like a hot dog.— only me
- When I was a child, I used to believe that armpits were private parts— Duda Gueiros
- i used to think that condoms were rubber circles and i never knew how they stayed on— hello
- My mom told my sister that if she didn't eat her peas, her period would last for an entire month.— Maya
- that u unrolled tampons and placed them in ur underwaer— DKuser
- I used to believe that tampons were diapers for girls because they can't control when they pee...— Tien