I was 8 yrs old when my breasts began to grow. My mom told me to go see my school nurse, because SHE believed it was breast cancer.
My school nurse told me not to worry: It's simply the glands growing. (For some reason she couldn't use the word tits or breasts, which I would've understood.) I thought GLANDS were something truly fatal.
It was another 8-year old, who finally told me what the lumps were about.
A childhood belief about rude bits
others believed things like this
- When we were young, the adults said that the rudest possible word was 'District Nurse'. And we believed them— Steve Haughton
- My sister use to belive the reason mom had two breasts - one to give milk, the other for juice.
Anon - i thought that since my dr's name was "Dr. Washer" that meant my nurse's name was "Dryer" ... i know, its sad— mekare
- When I was a kid, I found out about a womans period and I thought that she would bleed through her breasts.— Michael
- When I first started to develop my breasts I thought it meant I was producing milk— trisha
- I used to believe that babies came from between/underneath the breasts.Anon