I had been given limited sex-ed in grade school so I thought I understood the whole "having your period" thing. A little bit of outflow for 5-7 days? No problem!
I was so upset when I got my first one and found out that you bled *the entire time*, not just once a day.
A childhood belief about periods
others believed things like this
- i used to thought that period is when you pee like a baby for a few days...— i'm totally weird
- My mom told my sister that if she didn't eat her peas, her period would last for an entire month.— Maya
- In 6th grade, I thought that once you got your period, you'd have it forever!!!! 24/7Anon
- When I was a kid, I found out about a womans period and I thought that she would bleed through her breasts.— Michael
- I thought that your period came out all at once and you had to wear a pad around the time it would come.— Sarah
- A[n] nth grade teacher only had to finish the nth grade when he or she was in school.— MD Caruso