When i started my period when i was 11 i use to (sorry to be so gross) lick all the blood and clots off the pad or suck on my tampon because if i didnt ingest the blood that i was loosing, i would bleed to death eventually.
A childhood belief about periods
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that when I started menstruating, I would bleed to death from losing too much blood.— Debbie
- HA! I used to think when you got your period, you would just pee blood...I wish it was like that...if only.Anon
- when I was young, I heard that blood had iron in it. I thought blood was red because it was rusty.— Hunter
- I used to believe period blood came from the nipples. I thought that was what "padded bras" were for!!Anon
- I used to believe that guns shot out blood because everytime somebody shot a gun in a movie you saw blood.Anon
- When I was a kid, I found out about a womans period and I thought that she would bleed through her breasts.— Michael