When I was about ten, people were always talking about how fast I was growing up. Around Christmas, I was looking at all the wrapped presents, trying to figure out what they were. One was slightly round, about 6x3 inches, and I knew exactly what it was. It couldn't be anything else, I decided. It was a tampon.
I wasn't sure what a tampon was, but I knew it was part of growing up. I stressed about it for days, trying to figure out what to tell my parents. What if they didn't know what a tampon was? What would I tell them?
Finally, Christmas morning came, and I put off opening that gift for as long as possible. I finally got up the nerve to open it, and... it was a bottle of shampoo.
A childhood belief about periods
others believed things like this
- when i was 11, i used to beieve that if you wore a tampon u were NOT consider as a virgin— the stupid one
- I used to think that if you sneezed while wearing a tampon it would shoot out like a rocket. — Crazy Kid
- i used to think that you pull the string on a tampon and it would roll out to make a sanitary towelAnon
- Do you really mean to tell me that father Christmas is a myth?
Finally......— Peter (Aged 70) - when i was little i thought that jesus delivered presents on christmas not santa .— gaby
- I was told that for every christmas carol i sang before christmas time santa would give me one less present!— K