i remember being in my parents room, i must have been around 7 or 8 at the time, and i came across a box of tampons. so i went through the whole box and opened and cut the strings off of every single one. then she had to sit me down and explain what they were to me.
A childhood belief about periods

others believed things like this
- when i was little i thought every time i left the room my parents turned into aliensAnon
- I used to think that planes were held up by stringsAnon
- I used to believe planes flew by being attached by strings like a kite.Anon
- Mom told us that if we didn't eat every single bite of our veggies at dinner time, we'd get colon cancer.Anon
- My nephew, at around age three, used to say that airplanes trailing white exhaust were "airplanes on strings".— Mojo!
- I used to believe that when I heard noises from my parents room at night, they were praying. — Jugabamos