When I was in the fifth grade my friends and I had a boy in our class convinced that tampons were a kind of candy and he beleived us. We even told him there were special blood flavoured ones for halloween! He thought that was the coolest thing ever!
A childhood belief about periods
others believed things like this
- i used to think the word "friendship" meant a special kind of rocketship that you went on with your friends.— chips ahoy!
- In first grade a boy told me that he could see girls naked with his microscope lens. I beleived it for years.— Jeanette
- My friends son thought tampons were for mufflers for women so that they wouldn't fart. Anon
- I once believed that if I wore my Halloween costume to bed, I'd wake up as the actual thing.— Sarah
- I thought if you took some candy and buried in the yard, you would grow a candy tree.Anon
- I thought that the barber sign meant candy because I thought it looked like a candy cane.Anon