On my mother's birthday some years ago, my little brother didn't know what to give her, so he gave her a pad. He thought that it was a present, being small and covered in coloured plastic.
A childhood belief about periods

others believed things like this
- I was told that for every christmas carol i sang before christmas time santa would give me one less present!— K
- i thought that when it was your birthday you grow and then you didn't grow until a years time.— hello
- I used to believe that on your birthday, you didn't advance to your next age until you ate your birthday cake.— Casi
- I used to think that doctors added plastic to your face in plastic surgery.— caro
- I thought you didn't have to go to school when it was your birthday.— M_1
- Up until I was almost 11, I thought that a birthday suit was a special outfit you wore only on your birthdayAnon