Some time after I started my period, I started carrying a pad in my purse. Some girls went through it during gym one day found it, and started telling people that I wasn't a virgin. They apparently thought that virgins didn't have a period.
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 that your period came out all at once and you had to wear a pad around the time it would come.— Sarah
- I was horrified when my first period arrived. It wasn't blue, like in the commercials for sanitary towels.— Jane
- when i was little i asked what time midnight mass started.
i honestly had no idea.— what time?? - My mom told my sister that if she didn't eat her peas, her period would last for an entire month.— Maya
- I used to believe that if you left crumbs out for a long period of time, they would turn into ants.— Bylaberrie