In the 5th grade, we all knew we were going to have the "sex ed" and we would talk about what it was about. One girl said she knew all about it, and that we girls had to save our blood from our periods for the baby. That's why we needed sanitary napkins.
A childhood belief about periods
others believed things like this
- I used to belive that sanitary napkins are used by girls coz they have no control over their pee.....— raj
- I used to believe that sanitary napkins was the name of moist towellettesAnon
- I thought pads sucked blood from women. It wasn't until later in life that I knew their actual purposeAnon
- When my mom was a child, she thought that while girls had periods, boys had hemorrhoids!Anon
- I once knew a girl who used to believe that the sun was actaully a really bright gold fish very high up.— meow
- I also used to think that Mommies didn't have periods. I thought it went away once you had a baby.— T