I used to believe that the wrapper things you peel off sanitary napkins (you know, to reveal the sticky part) were called appetites, and they were important because they told you how much you ate. Once, me and my sister found some "appetites" of our own. But I ended up losing mine, and that made me cry for a long time. I explained to my parents that I was crying because "I lost my appetite!"
A childhood belief about periods

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that sanitary napkins was the name of moist towellettesAnon
- I used to belive that sanitary napkins are used by girls coz they have no control over their pee.....— raj
- My parents told me I was found under a gooseberry bush which I thought odd for a long long time.— Kate
- i used to associate the word appetite with apples, if you ate apples, you had an appetite. — elly
- I used to believe that all parents were called "Inge and Dirk", just like mine— eva
- My friend's sister believed the lyrics to Gazza's "Fog on the Tyne" were "Fog on the dinasaurs mine all mine"— Suzanne