My cousin got into my purse and found pads and asked if she could have one. I told her "stop! put those away! and stop playing around!" (I thought she knew what a period was shes 10) Then she asked "what is this any way? Is this sticker?" I later asked her if she knew what a period was and she said she thought it had to do with her armpits.
A childhood belief about periods
others believed things like this
- When I was a kid, I found out about a womans period and I thought that she would bleed through her breasts.— Michael
- I thought if 3 cards stopped at a 3-way stop sign then they had to stop forever until Christmas.Anon
- I thought pads sucked blood from women. It wasn't until later in life that I knew their actual purposeAnon
- When I was young, I used to belive that
if you pushed the stop button in the bus it would stop for good.— Tom (Norway) - In 6th grade, I thought that once you got your period, you'd have it forever!!!! 24/7Anon
- I thought that your period came out all at once and you had to wear a pad around the time it would come.— Sarah