I thought the applicator on a tampon was the string, and I thought that the whole tampon (including the plastic) went inside you.
A childhood belief about periods

others believed things like this
- i used to think that you pull the string on a tampon and it would roll out to make a sanitary towelAnon
- when i was 11, i used to beieve that if you wore a tampon u were NOT consider as a virgin— the stupid one
- I used to think that if you sneezed while wearing a tampon it would shoot out like a rocket. — Crazy Kid
- I used to think that doctors added plastic to your face in plastic surgery.— caro
- My mother, the good Catholic, thought that Jesus, being a string bean (supreme being) was really skinny.— Mark D
- I used to think that plastic surgery actually involved using plastic.
— JohnJ