I used to believe, when I found out, that once a woman started menstruating they would menstuate each and every day for the rest of their lives and never stop. I was worried for ages about it, and the prospect that I once I begun, I would never be able to go swimming again.
A childhood belief about periods

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that when I started menstruating, I would bleed to death from losing too much blood.— Debbie
- I used to think that when you swimming 'Freestyle' was swimming any way you want.Anon
- I thought if 3 cards stopped at a 3-way stop sign then they had to stop forever until Christmas.Anon
- When I was young, I used to belive that
if you pushed the stop button in the bus it would stop for good.— Tom (Norway) - My sister just recently realized that the lyric "more than a woman" wasn't 4 letter woman!— Anne
- I thought the line in the song "more than a woman" was "four-legged woman".— boo