My mom told me that pads were for when women laughed too hard and wet their pants. I then took one and tried to put it on just in case.
A childhood belief about periods

others believed things like this
- I thought pads sucked blood from women. It wasn't until later in life that I knew their actual purposeAnon
- when i was abotu 5 or 6 i thought that if i were to pull hard enough on my pants, i would float away— Aaron
- I used to believe that if you farted really hard, you could fart a hole in your pants. How dumb was that?— stargirl
- i used 2 think if u lied your pants would catch on fire cus of the sayin "lier lier pants on fire!"— nell
- When I was little my sister told me that if I put a C.D. in the wrong case, it would mess up the C.D.'s songs.— Torrie
- When I was little I believed that the "F word" was fart. My mom laughed at me when I told her.Anon