One day I asked my mum what tampons were for. She told me that it was to catch a seed that ladies produced once a month. I thought that at 'that time of the month' you had to stand there holding the tampon, waiting for the seed to pop out and catch it!
A childhood belief about periods
others believed things like this
- if you stand on your nose and sing the blues you wont get hiccups for a month.Anon
- Once my brother said me, the poppy seed in fact is ant. I have not eaten poppy seed for many years.
Anon - The moon was actually either a sugar cookie or a banana, depending on the time of the month. — Jessica Aspra
- My mom told my sister that if she didn't eat her peas, her period would last for an entire month.— Maya
- When I was little my sister told me salt was ground up dinosaur bones...I barley ate for a month...— Chandler
- I thought birds grew from bird seed. — Jen