When I was about 10 my sister got her period and I was sad because I thought getting your period meant you were a woman and I wanted to be a woman already. I actually started crying because I was the only one in the house who didn't have hers!
A childhood belief about periods
others believed things like this
- My mom told my sister that if she didn't eat her peas, her period would last for an entire month.— Maya
- My sister just recently realized that the lyric "more than a woman" wasn't 4 letter woman!— Anne
- I thought the line in the song "more than a woman" was "four-legged woman".— boo
- When I was a kid I thought rape just meant someone tearing the clothes off of a woman's body.— Matt
- I used to think that if a black woman or man and a white woman or man had a baby, it would be Asian.Anon
- I used to believe once a man and a woman lay naked caressing each other, the woman would be pregant— oiman