When I was little all of my older sisters and their friends were getting their periods and talking about them. I didn't know what a period was, so I associated a 'menstrual cycle-period' with the 'punctuation mark-period'. I one day chased my older sister trying to see the "period dot" on her "peepee", that they called a "period". I thought it was a little tiny dot somewhere down there that bled. Of course, unfortunately, I know NOW what a period really is.
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
- In 6th grade, I thought that once you got your period, you'd have it forever!!!! 24/7Anon
- I thought that your period came out all at once and you had to wear a pad around the time it would come.— Sarah
- i used to thought that period is when you pee like a baby for a few days...— i'm totally weird
- I used to believe that you had to be on your period to get pregnant........— Tricia
- HA! I used to think when you got your period, you would just pee blood...I wish it was like that...if only.Anon