When I was 5 or 6, I thought that my Mom's 'panty liners' were meant to be stuck on her hips, in order to cushion against the effect of the elastic in the waste band rubbing against and iritating her skin.
A childhood belief about periods

others believed things like this
- I used to think condoms were meant to be solid, instead of rubber or elastic, like unblown balloons.— Natasha
- I thought Whoopi Goldberg was the inventor of the Whoopie CushionAnon
- In 'Call Me Maybe', I misheard 'Ripped jeans skin' as 'Rich cheese skin'. — Carly Rae Cheddar
- i used to believe the song "band on the run" was "band on the rug"— someone
- i used to think that babies were made by rubbing your bellybuttons togetherAnon
- I used to believe that molasses were made by grasshoppers rubbing their back legs together.— Valerey Lavergne