When I was little, I saw some commercials for tampons and it showed how they expand when they are inside the vagina....
well I thought that a tampon was a way to lose weight and that you had to swallow it and it expanded in your stomach to make you feel full so you would not have to eat!
A childhood belief about periods

others believed things like this
- I used to belive that if I ate orange peel it would expand in my stomach and blow me up.— Paul
- I thought i had to chew my food 27 times before i could swallow because Stephanie said it on Full HouseAnon
- I used to believe that menstruation fluid was blue because of the way TV commercials showed it. — matias
- I thought it was impossible for anyone to lift more than their own body weight. Just seemed to make sense..— Xenomorph
- If you swallowed chewing gum it would make a balloon inside you and your stomach would explodeAnon
- dont swallow gum, it will stick to your stomach , your whole life.— nancy