This the kind of story I could always visualize Joan Rivers telling but this really happened to me.
My mother had never explained anything about sex to me and when I was twelve years old I had to go into the hospital to have my tonsils removed. While under anesthetic my period started and when I came to, I was a bloodly mess.
I thought that either the doctor didn't know where my tonsils were located - or
obviously, I didn't.
To this day I still have more than the usual, terrible fear of surgery.
A childhood belief about periods
others believed things like this
- Well into adulthood I thought that a local anesthetic meant one from the area near the hospital..— D'sparil
- I once thought people would keep growing until they were as big as buildings if they didn't go to the doctor. — Tufty
- My mom told my sister that if she didn't eat her peas, her period would last for an entire month.— Maya
- I didn't understand about boiled eggs until my Mum explained I wasn't supposed to eat the shell as well.— Chris
- That the rivers stopped flowing at night!— Louise
- All through life, I always thought the lungs were located in your throat. I'm 25.— thelungs,man