I thought I was going to die when I saw blood on my panty. I was scared, kept this to myself and cried silently. Then eventually I told my mom and said its normal for females to have menstruation.
A childhood belief about periods

others believed things like this
- When I was you younger, I used to believe men had their menstruation.— Lilly-Rose Bessin-Collin
- I used to believe that menstruation fluid was blue because of the way TV commercials showed it. — matias
- when I was young, I heard that blood had iron in it. I thought blood was red because it was rusty.— Hunter
- I thought that all cats were the females, and that the dogs were the males.— opps guess not
- When I was a kid, I used to believe that females never went to the restroom, farted,or burped.— michael
- When I was younger, I used to believe toads were male and frog were females.— Claude-Eugène