When I was little I would go through my mother's purse and find tampons. I always thought they were some sort of candy, and I would get mad when she wouldn't share any with me! (x_x)!!
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
- I thought if you took some candy and buried in the yard, you would grow a candy tree.Anon
- I thought that the barber sign meant candy because I thought it looked like a candy cane.Anon
- When I asked my mother how Elvis died, she told me that he ate too much candy. — Katie B
- I used to believe my mom kept a lizard in her purse that would bite me if I got into it.Anon