When I first started getting periods(at age 10 or 11)I always used pads. I always said that I'd never use tampons, my mother never used them so I didn't know how they worked. I thought that because when I wiped my butt while on my period, since there was blood on the toilet paper, if I wore tampons, there would be blood all over the seat of my pants, and if I wanted to prevent it, I'd have to put a tampon up my butt too..
A childhood belief about periods
others believed things like this
- i used to belief that tampons were rolled up pads in a tubeAnon
- I never knew how tampons worked, I always thought they would fit in a female flat, like a hot dog.— only me
- 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
- HA! I used to think when you got your period, you would just pee blood...I wish it was like that...if only.Anon