Up until I was 9, and taught better, I thought a sanitary pad was for office women who were too busy to go to the toilet so they just peed into their pads, yes, like a nappy.
Imagine my amazement when I found out what a tampon did. I didn't even know I had a hole there. I used to pull the string on tampons, thinking it would turn into a mini umbrella like those in cocktail drinks.
A childhood belief about periods
others believed things like this
- i used to think that you pull the string on a tampon and it would roll out to make a sanitary towelAnon
- i used to belief that tampons were rolled up pads in a tubeAnon
- My friends son thought tampons were for mufflers for women so that they wouldn't fart. Anon
- when i was 6 i thought girls peed out of there butt hole!— axel
- 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 tampons were meant to absorb women's urine so they wouldn't have to go to the bathroom.— Koyaanisqatsi