After my mum told me that during a period an egg was released, I was convinced that an egg like a hen's egg came out of a girl(looking like a poached egg in your pants) and that was the reason for wearing sanitary towels!
Why didn't she just give me a fuller explanation?!
A childhood belief about periods
others believed things like this
- I was horrified when my first period arrived. It wasn't blue, like in the commercials for sanitary towels.— Jane
- My mom told my sister that if she didn't eat her peas, her period would last for an entire month.— Maya
- My sister use to belive the reason mom had two breasts - one to give milk, the other for juice.
Anon - That you could give birth to what ever you chose (i.e a girl, a boy, twins, triplets)— Krista Durling
- I used to believe that towels were sleeping ghosts, and at night they would come out and get you— bajd
- My dad told me that the reason Birds didn't get electrocuted on overhead wire was they had rubber feet!!— Derricki