When I was about 9 I got my first period, before I got the "talk" and I thought that I was dying!
A childhood belief about periods

others believed things like this
- When I was little, I thought dying your hair would give you the color AND hairstyle displayed on the box. Anon
- When I was little I thought that dying your hair means you kill your hair.Anon
- I used to beleive when ppl didn't talk (deaf ppl) they lost their voice and could never talk again!— Tiara 10
- 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
- i used to thought that period is when you pee like a baby for a few days...— i'm totally weird