When I was younger I used to pray God to make me have nosebleeds instead of periods...Can you believe that I would rather bleed where everyone could see me vs having periods...That would have been awful
A childhood belief about periods

others believed things like this
- I used to think that guys had periods, too. — Laurie
- 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
- i used to believe that women wore bras because their periods happened in their boobies.Anon
- i used to believe when iwas young that during periods, one bleeds through thier breastsAnon
- a male friend of mine used to think that only women who had been pregnant had periods— oiman