When I was prepubescent, I found a sanitary napkin (not soiled) face up in our bathroom wastepaperbasket. I have four older sisters. One of them told me it was an insert you put in your shoe to make it padded and therefore, more comfortable.
A childhood belief about periods
others believed things like this
- i used to think that you pull the string on a tampon and it would roll out to make a sanitary towelAnon
- I used to believe period blood came from the nipples. I thought that was what "padded bras" were for!!Anon
- I used to believe that my sisters "make believe dog" was real— me
- My brother used to believe a feminine napkin was something only women could blow their noses with.Anon
- I used to believe that sanitary napkins was the name of moist towellettesAnon
- when I was a kid I used to believe if I left the shoe facing the person would die— milena