I once saw a used sanitary towel in a toilet, and asked my mum what it was. She explained how a lady gets rid of her egg once a month and that's what a period is. I spent the next few years of my life thinking women laid sanitary towels when they had their period.
A childhood belief about periods
others believed things like this
- I was horrified when my first period arrived. It wasn't blue, like in the commercials for sanitary towels.— Jane
- i used to think that you pull the string on a tampon and it would roll out to make a sanitary towelAnon
- For years I thought that spunk was a male period and that boys spunked once a month - Yeah right!— Stupid Child
- 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 sanitary napkins was the name of moist towellettesAnon
- I used to belive that sanitary napkins are used by girls coz they have no control over their pee.....— raj