Up until the day I got my period I thought it would be a lot like going to the bathroom. You'd feel a pressure near your bladder, excuse yourself to use the bathroom and blood would come out insted of pee.
A childhood belief about periods

others believed things like this
- I used to believe period blood came from the nipples. I thought that was what "padded bras" were for!!Anon
- HA! I used to think when you got your period, you would just pee blood...I wish it was like that...if only.Anon
- I thought firefighters were really "firefires," and burned houses down insted of putting them out.Anon
- When I was little, I thought it was harmful to eat while you were going to the bathroom. Anon
- The song 'there's a bad moon out to night.' i thought they were saying 'there's a bathroom on the right.'— kim in alabama
- When I heard "Don't Come Out Tonight(Bad Moon on the Rise), I thought they were saying Bathroom on the Right.— helen.sellers