This isn't about myself, but I know these girls are going to be in shock pretty soon.
I was in the girl's washroom in 8th grade and as I was leaving these 7th grade girls pointed into a stall and said to me "EWW! There's a tampon in there!" I looked in and there was the paper that you peel off the sticky side of a pad.
I guess the sex ed we took that year really failed them! They are in for a suprise once they see what they really are.
A childhood belief about periods

others believed things like this
- In first grade a boy told me that he could see girls naked with his microscope lens. I beleived it for years.— Jeanette
- Until I tried it in 3rd grade, my parents told me that if I ate paper my poop would come out in packages.— The Mailman
- I thought that the difference between girls and boys was that girls have teeth.
Anon - I used to believe all babies came out as girls and later on in life some of those girls turned into boys — Tom
- When I was a little girl, I believed that all cats were girls and all dogs were boys. :)— Mary Ellen
- I used to believe that maxi pads were worn backwards with the sticky side on your.....tutu.Anon