I used to think that when a girl had her period she would just sit down and be lazy (I thought since a 'period' just sort of sits there and doesn't do anything...), for a while and was allowed to be as mean as she wanted to be because she had to sit and do nothing. My mom never gave me any kind of sex talk or period talk, so imagine my surprise when I started bleeding randomly one day. I thought I was sick and I told my mom I had to go to the hospital because I thought a blood vessel in my thigh erupted and I was dying. I was 12, I didn't know anything. She looked at me like I was retarded, shook her head and went, "Uh... welcome to womanhood?"
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- 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
- That you had to marry your sibling. During this period of time I devoliped a crush on my brother.— don't worry I'm a girl
- I used to beleive when ppl didn't talk (deaf ppl) they lost their voice and could never talk again!— Tiara 10
- I used to think wall outlets looked like little faces (eyes and mouth), and so I would talk to them sometimes!— EJ
- I thought I had X-ray vision and could talk to animals and they could understand me.— Kitty Lover