i used to think that my period would start red. Well, then i got mine, it was almost black!!!! I thought i had cancer or something!
thank god for mom who didn't laugh her head off- i was sooo SCARED!
A childhood belief about periods
others believed things like this
- I used to think that if you ate the black bits on chips you would instantly die of cancer.— jayne
- Mom told us that if we didn't eat every single bite of our veggies at dinner time, we'd get colon cancer.Anon
- I thought you always die if you A. get cancer or B. have a heart attack— Nate
- when i was little i thought people with big heads or big noses had cancer...Anon
- My mom told my sister that if she didn't eat her peas, her period would last for an entire month.— Maya
- My friend's sister believed the lyrics to Gazza's "Fog on the Tyne" were "Fog on the dinasaurs mine all mine"— Suzanne