when i was 12, i started my periods, when i first woke up that very day, i thought i had wet the bet, because it was soaked, but when i saw that it was brown, i thought that i must have pooped the bed. I tried to hide it but the rest of my family found out. I robbed a few of my sisters pads and tampons, and piled up 9 pads and 4 tampons in my underwear, because i thought i just couldn't stop wetting myself, or pooping myself. i didnt quite no what periods were, coz i was off for the sex talk in school.Everyone in school noticed i had huge bulges in my underwear, and that the pads and tampons would keep slipping out and hanging below my skirt, coz i hadn't stuck them in. I got so embarrassed, because someone told the teacher that i had robbed something and snuck it in my underwear, so i had to lower my knickers, and the 4 tampons and 9 pads fell out onto the floor, i was embarrassed, because they put me in a diaper for the rest o the day, and told me about periods
A childhood belief about periods

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- i used to belief that tampons were rolled up pads in a tubeAnon
- I used to believe tampons go in but they never came out and I aslo belived that condoms were rubber underwear— Elise
- once me and my friend stuck her mums tampons up are butts thinking that you didnt have to poo— ha ha ha ha
- I used to believe that women got pregnant from rubbing her underwear on a man's underwear.Anon
- i thought that my mom used to pee on her maxi padsAnon
- My nephew (age 7) thought tampons were plugs for diarrhea. Anon