About the same time that I was starting to have my periods, my sister was into a singing group called "The New Christy Minstrels". I thought their name was "The New Christie Menstruals" and they were named in honor of my first periods! Later when I learned the word "minstrel" and what it meant, I realized that the groups name had nothing to do with menstruation.
A childhood belief about periods
others believed things like this
- I used to believe everything starting with f was a bad word after I learned about the "f-word". — Sarah
- I also used to think that Mommies didn't have periods. I thought it went away once you had a baby.— T
- i thought the phrase "getting a boner" referred to men getting their periods. — astrid
- When my mom was a child, she thought that while girls had periods, boys had hemorrhoids!Anon
- I used to think that guys had periods, too. — Laurie
- i used to believe that women wore bras because their periods happened in their boobies.Anon