When I was around 8, before I ever had "The Talk", my Aunt was expecting. We were at a picnic and she had a mis-carriage, but it looked like her period to me. Everyone wa stalking about her having a mis-carriage and losing her baby. When I had my first one, I screamed for my mother and told her I had a mis-carriage. She laughed so hard she fell down, and finally explained it to me. I was 13 before I finally learned the truth.
(Not mine)
My friends' mother use to call having her period "When the river runs red". My friend lived next to a small stream, and use to watch it everyday to see when she'd have hers.
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
- As a small child I believed that the word was "nakeup", finally I found out that it was actually "makeup".— Hannnah P.
- My mom told my sister that if she didn't eat her peas, her period would last for an entire month.— Maya
- A friend of mine used to think that you got pregnant from eating baby food.— Jemima
- My mother used to call my behind "a paw paw" and for many years I refused to eat paw paws (papayas)— Garth
- I used to believe that you had to be on your period to get pregnant........— Tricia