When I was 10, or so, I used to think when you got your period, you never stopped bleeding until you got old. I was dreading the day I would get mine, because I could never swim again!
A childhood belief about periods
others believed things like this
- My friend's sister believed the lyrics to Gazza's "Fog on the Tyne" were "Fog on the dinasaurs mine all mine"— Suzanne
- i used to believe that pools had underwater doors that sharks were going to swim out of.— marky
- I used to dream that if I held my breath, I could swim through the air for brief amounts of time— Adam
- I used to believe that once you pulled the plug in the bath a shark would swim out of the drain and eat you.— Amy
- I thought that islands and continents were floating rocks so you could swim underneath them.— Kat
- I believed they put heated coils in lakes for the ducks to swim in the wintertime.Anon