When I was little, I once believed that pads were used for wiping tables... until my mom told me they were used to suck up blood. So I used it as a band=aid.
A childhood belief about periods
others believed things like this
- When I was younger, I believed that times tables in maths were kids sitting at tables staring at clocks!Anon
- I used to think that maxi pads were big band-aids.— Keesha
- I thought pads sucked blood from women. It wasn't until later in life that I knew their actual purposeAnon
- 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 the song "band on the run" was "band on the rug"— someone
- I believed that all of my blood was stored in the calves of my legs. — Julia