This one's about my boyfriend. He thought that when girls use tampons, they wear them all month long. I must mention that he is 19, with a mom and a 17-year-old sister. You'd think he'd know these things!
A childhood belief about periods

others believed things like this
- I thought that 1983 went on for 3 years - had to ask my sister who decided how long a year lasted.— Sally
- I used to believe that tampons were diapers for girls because they can't control when they pee...— Tien
- My sister believed that october was the 10th month!— Sally
- My mom told my sister that if she didn't eat her peas, her period would last for an entire month.— Maya
- When I was little my sister told me salt was ground up dinosaur bones...I barley ate for a month...— Chandler
- I convinced my sister that chocolate milk was made out of Keebler cookie elves, she believed me for a month— Rainbow Steel