When I was 9 or 10, I'd read all the teen magazines and I'd see all these ads for pads. Confused, I went and asked my mum what pads were and she said it was to avoid staining your underwear. I thought to myself, "I could use some pads," because I was starting to get discharge and it was staining my underwear, and that's what I thought my period was.
A childhood belief about periods
others believed things like this
- i thought that my mom used to pee on her maxi padsAnon
- When I was little, I thought pads were a fashion accesory. I didn't find out until Grade 4.— Fashionably Challenged
- I used to believe that women got pregnant from rubbing her underwear on a man's underwear.Anon
- I thought pads sucked blood from women. It wasn't until later in life that I knew their actual purposeAnon
- I used to think that maxi pads were big band-aids.— Keesha
- I used to belive ( along time ago) that the pads my mom used were diapers for mummies.— Kristie