When I was little I thought that sanitary napkins were very clean napkins that one used for special occasion meals.
A childhood belief about periods

others believed things like this
- 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 think that you pull the string on a tampon and it would roll out to make a sanitary towelAnon
- I was horrified when my first period arrived. It wasn't blue, like in the commercials for sanitary towels.— Jane
- To clean the goldfish you put washing up liquid into its bowl.— Sev
- i used to believe that the "coin wash" was to clean my dirty pennies.— rmutt