when i got my first period, i didn't want to tell anyone so i tried to figure out tampons by myself. I stuck the whole applicator up there without removing the plastic and walked around proudly for the rest of the day. It took me a whole period to figure out that tampons didn't work that way.
A childhood belief about periods

others believed things like this
- once me and my friend stuck her mums tampons up are butts thinking that you didnt have to poo— ha ha ha ha
- My mom told my sister that if she didn't eat her peas, her period would last for an entire month.— Maya
- I used to think Hannah Barbera was one woman...not two men. I didn't figure it out until I was about 15!— minkie
- that u unrolled tampons and placed them in ur underwaer— DKuser
- I used to believe that tampons were diapers for girls because they can't control when they pee...— Tien
- i used to belief that tampons were rolled up pads in a tubeAnon