When I was eight, I wanted to go swimming with my friend Ella, who was fifteen. She was having her period at the time, and so couldn't go. When I asked why, she told me that blood comes from your bum and your tummy inflates when you get to fifteen. I cried and cried and worried myself sick about her, and then my mom told me what was really going to happen.
A childhood belief about periods
others believed things like this
- My sister told me that if you had sweetcorn in your poo, you had six months to live! I cried for weeks — Billy
- My grandma told me and my sisters that the boogie man lived in her basement and if we cried he would get us.— Paulette
- I told my son that he used to be in my tummy when he was 4. So he asked me," Mommy why did you swollow me?"
— Christopher's mom - I used to believe that if you went swimming after you got your first period, then you could get pregnant. — Mel
- The more you cried, the less you peed.Anon
- My brother used to believe when our dog was getting fat that she was going to pop. He Cried!— A very Ashamed Brother