(I hope this isn't offensive.) When I was 10 years old I wanted to go to the neighborhood pool with my friend. She told me she couldn't because she was "on the rag". I said to her, "Tell your mom you'll do the dishes later." I thought that "on the rag" meant that she had dish duty. Haha!
A childhood belief about periods
others believed things like this
- I thought my imaginary friend was real and he imagined me
I hope he still believes I existAnon - when I was growing up I truly believed that my neighborhood was the only neighborhood with "THE CORNER"— Brid
- I believed that the Kreepy Crawlie used to clean our pool, would follow me around the pool and eat me. — Mother-of-2
- My Mum told me if I ate too much toast I would get cancer! I couldn't eat it for years and years...— Pauliboy
- I used to think that satellites were launched from satellite dishes.— Mike
- I liked cats so much I wanted to be a Vet when I grew up, but, I thought they couldn't eat meat.
— Tanya