I was so excited to get my period, because it meant I was going to be a grown up soon. Of course, I also thought people only got their periods ONCE in their lives and then that was it.
Now I understand why there are so many commercials selling pads.
A childhood belief about periods
others believed things like this
- When I first heard the words "flea market", I actually thought it meant "selling fleas".Anon
- I was horrified when my first period arrived. It wasn't blue, like in the commercials for sanitary towels.— Jane
- i used to believe that cursive writing was a secret language that only grown-ups could understand.— nicole
- I used to think that if you had a garage sale that meant you were selling the garage!— ~Curtis~
- When there was an advert for a "3 peice suite" i thought it was a shop selling 3 P Sweet's!!!— Kate Parker
- I thought grown ups were born grown ups.— mea