I remember sitting on my bed, reading a magazine, when I saw a tampon ad. I sat there for the longest time trying to figure out where it went. Because the ad said 'odor absorbing,' I thought it went on your armpit. That was just one theory.
A childhood belief about periods

others believed things like this
- My wicked sister told me that baby's come from the armpit-didn't matter male or female.Anon
- For the longest time I thought 90210 was a sitcom Anon
- i thought that you had like a box or something inside you to hold your soul for the longest time— jill
- I thought that Samson and Solomon from the Bible were the same person for the longest time...— Laura G.
- For the longest time I thought that Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer had a very "chinese" nose...Anon
- For the longest time I thought Pig Latin was an actual language that they spoke in a part of Europe.Anon