When i was younger- thanks to the tampax and tampon commercials on the media, being television, i was always under the impression that women discharged a blue liquid during their periods.
A childhood belief about periods

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that menstruation fluid was blue because of the way TV commercials showed it. — matias
- I was horrified when my first period arrived. It wasn't blue, like in the commercials for sanitary towels.— Jane
- i used to believe that women wore bras because their periods happened in their boobies.Anon
- a male friend of mine used to think that only women who had been pregnant had periods— oiman
- When I was younger I thought that if I ate Gusher's, my head would turn into fruit, like in the commercialsAnon
- When I was younger I used to believe that women just magically got pregnant after getting married.Anon