One day, I happened to see my mom in the bathroom, pulling out a tampon. At that age, I was not even aware that I had a vagina and I thought she was pulling it out of her anus, so I screamed "Mom, what did you just pull out of your butthole?!"
A childhood belief about periods

others believed things like this
- When I was young I thought that after pulling out off a petrol station the car would go faster— Amine
- I used to believe that if the wind changed when you were pulling your face that you would stick like that— Farino
- I used to believe that "carpooling" meant you were outside the car and pushing/pulling it to your destination.Anon
- I used to believe that we got sausages from pulling them out of pigs bums - all neat and tidy. Mmm— L. Webb
- I used to think that the river police were there to stop naughty people from pulling the plug out.— Linda
- i used to think that you pull the string on a tampon and it would roll out to make a sanitary towelAnon