When I first got my period I was really scared to put a tampon in. My mom told me that I would be fine. I told her that I didn't want to do it cause I might put it in the wrong hole and then I would be bleeding still but I wouldn't be able to pee!
A childhood belief about periods
others believed things like this
- My mom told my sister that if she didn't eat her peas, her period would last for an entire month.— Maya
- When I was in Kindergarten I was told if I picked my nose my nose will go into eternal bleeding— Sam
- When I was little my sister told me that if I put a C.D. in the wrong case, it would mess up the C.D.'s songs.— Torrie
- i used to believe (because my dad told me so) that AM stood for "awful music" and FM stood for "fine music"— skydvgrl
- My mother told me when i was 5 that Santa wouldn't come if i kept sucking my thumb. — Traumatized
- I thought that to breastfeed, a woman had to poke a hole in her nipple (like the hole in a bottle nipple).— Imani B.