When I was younger, for some reason I believed pads were to cut vaginas and thats why there was always blood on the pad. I thought women needed their vaginas cut so they could stay healthy and so they used pads to 'cut' their vaginas. I was horrified, and I remember my cousin getting her mother's pads and saying, "Someday we're gonna have to use these."
I'd always ask my mother if it hurt. She would respond, "Sometimes," so that added on to that belief.
Come on, people, I was like, 5 years old!! :-P
A childhood belief about periods
others believed things like this
- I thought pads sucked blood from women. It wasn't until later in life that I knew their actual purposeAnon
- When I was a kid I thought girls peed out of there vaginas...woops!— Greg
- i used to belief that tampons were rolled up pads in a tubeAnon
- 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 think that maxi pads were big band-aids.— Keesha