This is going to sound sick, but when I was younger I thought pads were for catching extra pee or something. Sort of like a diaper. I thought some women had problems and had extra droppings of pee that the pad caught.
A childhood belief about weeing and pooing

others believed things like this
- i used to beleive taht when you turned 14 years old you wuld grow an extra toe— kirsty
- I used to think that "extra body" shampoo meant you could use the runoff suds to clean your body.— Christy
- When I was younger, I thought that Labour Day was when all sorts of women gave birth.— Greg
- I thought Pink's "You make me sick" was "you make me sick, you make me look like a candlestick" LOL— Rice
- When I was little I thought if you were sick the only way to get better was to give it to someone else.— Jen
- I thought pretending I was sick to stay home from school was called cookie not hookie.— Jen