When I was younger and watching sanitry towel adverts with them pouring water over the pads to show how they absourbed the water, my fagile mind convinced me to think that when your older, women would wet themselves on their periods!!!
A childhood belief about periods

others believed things like this
- I thought that hydrogen was pure water (since I knew hydro- meant water) and H2O was impure some how— Hexetic
- I used to believe that if i splashed water on the wall during a bath, the water would turn into spiders— justin
- When I was a kid I always thought that a water tower was the robot from the TV show "Lost in Space".— sherryj
- that bathroom tap water was recycled "potty" water from the toliet. — livingdeadgirl
- ***I used to believe that water towers was a place that someone lived and they controlled the water.— C H R I S T E N
- when I was younger, I used to think jet-ski,s ran on water. Anon