I must have been about 7 or 8 years old. At the time I was seeing ads for feminine napkins which I thought were individually wrapped table napkins. I could'nt understand why anyone would need individually wrapped table napkins.
A childhood belief about periods

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that sanitary napkins was the name of moist towellettesAnon
- I used to belive that sanitary napkins are used by girls coz they have no control over their pee.....— raj
- I always thought the song Blinded by the light went "Wrapped up like a dousche, another runner in the night"— Dawn
- I use to think that mummies were wrapped in toilet paper.— Glowworm
- My Dad told me that the big bales of hay wrapped in plastic sitting in the fields on farms were cow eggs.Anon
- I used to believe that you could curl your hair by twirling a strand of hair wrapped around your finger— Anonymous