When I was young, I used to think that "sanitary napkins" were just "really clean" napkins. Once, in an airplane, I came back from the toilet with one of these, prepared to use it while I ate the in-flight meal. My mother, looking horrified, gasped and snatched it from my hands, never explaining exactly what it was for. After that thought it was something quite unsanitary indeed - but what?
A childhood belief about periods
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that sanitary napkins was the name of moist towellettesAnon
- I used to belive that sanitary napkins are used by girls coz they have no control over their pee.....— raj
- I was horrified when my first period arrived. It wasn't blue, like in the commercials for sanitary towels.— Jane
- When I was young whenever I rode on an airplane I always thought we were traveling to another planet. — Dennis Rueda
- I used to believe I could fly.
All I had todo was step of a flight of stairs and I'd be walking in the air...— Dolly - --I thought if I swung hard enough in my swing i could possibly reach an airplane
— dusty chenille