When I first started my period at age thirteen, I was totally freaked out. I especially hated the way I could feel the blood running (ewww!), and I believed that if I was humming to myself I would trigger the blood so that it would run more. I figured humming would make my pituitary gland vibrate, and that would cause the blood to flow. I stopped humming while on my period for about a year...
A childhood belief about periods
others believed things like this
- HA! I used to think when you got your period, you would just pee blood...I wish it was like that...if only.Anon
- I used to believe period blood came from the nipples. I thought that was what "padded bras" were for!!Anon
- when I was young, I heard that blood had iron in it. I thought blood was red because it was rusty.— Hunter
- I used to believe that guns shot out blood because everytime somebody shot a gun in a movie you saw blood.Anon
- I used to believe that when I started menstruating, I would bleed to death from losing too much blood.— Debbie
- I believed that all of my blood was stored in the calves of my legs. — Julia