My mom has a heavy period and doesn't wear tampons because it would still leak to her pants.
Anyway, one day my day asked me, why doesn't she just very tampons? Wouldn't they just plug it up?
Yes. He thought that tampons actually plug up your vagina and stop any blood getting out. He was stumped when I asked him how he thought all the blood went away.
A childhood belief about periods
others believed things like this
- My friends son thought tampons were for mufflers for women so that they wouldn't fart. Anon
- I used to think that tampons were meant to absorb women's urine so they wouldn't have to go to the bathroom.— Koyaanisqatsi
- My nephew (age 7) thought tampons were plugs for diarrhea. Anon
- I never knew how tampons worked, I always thought they would fit in a female flat, like a hot dog.— only me
- that u unrolled tampons and placed them in ur underwaer— DKuser
- I used to believe that tampons were diapers for girls because they can't control when they pee...— Tien