when I was younger I thought pads were used to catch those little drops of pee that got in your pants if you didn't get there quite in time. Later I found out it was to keep blood off you pants, and not pee, I was like "oh so it's for catching blood when you get a shaving nick down there, not for pee, that explains it!" Then a few years later I realised it was the whole menstrual system and thought my solution was so much more practical than that.
A childhood belief about periods
others believed things like this
- i used 2 think if u lied your pants would catch on fire cus of the sayin "lier lier pants on fire!"— nell
- I thought pads sucked blood from women. It wasn't until later in life that I knew their actual purposeAnon
- when I was young, I heard that blood had iron in it. I thought blood was red because it was rusty.— Hunter
- My father used to call soya sauce "monkey blood". I didn't even consider tasting it for years!— Me
- i thought that when you wet yourself and pooped your pants you would dieAnon
- I used to believe that guns shot out blood because everytime somebody shot a gun in a movie you saw blood.Anon