***I used to believe that when you started your period you would just pee blood and then it accured to me, if you just peed blood then why would you need pads.
A childhood belief about periods

others believed things like this
- HA! I used to think when you got your period, you would just pee blood...I wish it was like that...if only.Anon
- I thought pads sucked blood from women. It wasn't until later in life that I knew their actual purposeAnon
- when I was young, I heard that blood had iron in it. I thought blood was red because it was rusty.— Hunter
- I used to believe period blood came from the nipples. I thought that was what "padded bras" were for!!Anon
- I used to believe that when I started menstruating, I would bleed to death from losing too much blood.— Debbie
- I used to believe that guns shot out blood because everytime somebody shot a gun in a movie you saw blood.Anon