When I was younger, I used to think that if I touched one of my mums sanitary towels (the one's without wrappers)then it would make her ill. I used to think that somehow, sanitary towels had to be completely sterile before you could use them!
A childhood belief about periods

others believed things like this
- I was horrified when my first period arrived. It wasn't blue, like in the commercials for sanitary towels.— Jane
- i used to think that you pull the string on a tampon and it would roll out to make a sanitary towelAnon
- I used to believe that towels were sleeping ghosts, and at night they would come out and get you— bajd
- I used to believe that sanitary napkins was the name of moist towellettesAnon
- I used to belive that sanitary napkins are used by girls coz they have no control over their pee.....— raj
- I used to belive that my parent condoms were ballons is special wrappersAnon