when i was younger my older sister and her friend were talking about their periods, and when i heard that you just keep bleeding i thought that it hurt really bad, and i started crying and they had to calm me down.
A childhood belief about periods

others believed things like this
- a friend of my little sister's had 4 older brothers, so she thought that when you got older you grew a penis!Anon
- My sister's friend thought cats were just small dogs when she was younger.— Richard Davies
- My little sister's imaginary friend was Kit the talking car from that show Knight Rider.Anon
- a male friend of mine used to think that only women who had been pregnant had periods— oiman
- when i was really young, i couldn't figure out why i can't get older than my older sister.— angela
- That people older than me knew what they were talking about.— Mark