i used to think that tampons were small tube type things and when you put them in all the blood would drip in there and when you took it out you poured the blood out and put it back in. i know know that it is incorrect!
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 that guns shot out blood because everytime somebody shot a gun in a movie you saw blood.Anon
- i used to belief that tampons were rolled up pads in a tubeAnon
- when i was litte
I used to believe that white people had white blood and black people had black blood.Anon - I used to believe that milk was cow blood. — Stephen
- HA! I used to think when you got your period, you would just pee blood...I wish it was like that...if only.Anon