When I was about 10 mum gave me some roasted beetroot for lunch one day & loved it & ended up eating a big bowlful.
The next day I went to the toilet & when I wiped it was deep deep red. I thought I had my first period! I told my mum who gave me sanitary napkins & for months I couldn't understand why I hadn't ever had another period.
until I ate beetroot again & the penny dropped!
A childhood belief about periods
others believed things like this
- My mum told my brother that beetroot turned your wee pink. To this day he still won't eat it— Monica
- When I was a kid I though facial hair on a man is what gave them the deep voice — Adrian Z.
- I was horrified when my first period arrived. It wasn't blue, like in the commercials for sanitary towels.— Jane
- 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
- Since my father had a deep cleft in his chin, I thought he was growing a tiny buttocks out of his face.— Rick