When I was 5 years old, my mother took me into a public bathroom in a hospital, and for the first time, I saw a tampon dispensor. I asked what my mom what a tampon was, and without wanting to get into details, she told me it was a piece of cloth women used to stop them from bleeding.
We exited the bathroom and began telling me about the operation she had on her sinus' and that she would have to go back to the hospital next week to change the gauze in her nose which was stopping all the blood.
Infront of all the medical staff and other patients, I (loudly) told her to save herself the trip and just stuff tampons up her nose, as that's what they were made for.
I couldn't figure out why everyone was laughing.
A childhood belief about periods
others believed things like this
- When I was in Kindergarten I was told if I picked my nose my nose will go into eternal bleeding— Sam
- I used to think that tampons were meant to absorb women's urine so they wouldn't have to go to the bathroom.— Koyaanisqatsi
- My mother used ot tell me that if I picked my nose the 'Nose Spider' would bite my finger off.— Melanie
- My grandparents always told me that if I picked my nose too much, my nose would get bigger.— The Mortal Elf
- That blue cheese was made by scraping mould off bathroom walls. My mother actually told me that.— sandee
- My mother told me that if I picked my nose it would turn into a pigs trotter!— Lynne S :o)