I was about 8 years, and I heard some friends talking about the period. I asked what it was, and the answer was:
"You bleed in your bottom. Only girls can get it"
I was like:
"Cool! I'm looking forward to get the peroid!" I thought we girls only got the peroid once in a life. And then: Finish with it.
I'm not that stupid now.
A childhood belief about periods
others believed things like this
- I used to believe all babies came out as girls and later on in life some of those girls turned into boys — Tom
- I thought that the difference between girls and boys was that girls have teeth.
Anon - When I was a kid, I found out about a womans period and I thought that she would bleed through her breasts.— Michael
- when I was a kid, I used to believe that only girls could be my friends and all other boys were my brothers.
— rajat - I used to think that if a fly didn't bleed when it was swatted, it would come back to life.Anon
- In first grade a boy told me that he could see girls naked with his microscope lens. I beleived it for years.— Jeanette