When I was about 8 years old my friend Alice told me that all women would bleed once a month, and that this would happen to us when we were older.
I was horrified, and imagined blood coming out of all of our pores. Then I didn't believe her because I was sure that I had never seen any grown up woman I knew walking around with blood pouring out from everywhere.
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
- I used to believe that when I started menstruating, I would bleed to death from losing too much blood.— Debbie
- when I was young, I heard that blood had iron in it. I thought blood was red because it was rusty.— Hunter
- My father used to call soya sauce "monkey blood". I didn't even consider tasting it for years!— Me
- I used to believe that guns shot out blood because everytime somebody shot a gun in a movie you saw blood.Anon
- my aunt used to have an imaginary friend who instead of having blood had 7-up in her veins.Anon