Due to all of the commercials showing how sanitary pads absorb wetness and keep women dry, for the longest time I thought that periods were simply women peeing on themselves.
Thought this for years. :-(
A childhood belief about periods
others believed things like this
- I used to think that tampons were meant to absorb women's urine so they wouldn't have to go to the bathroom.— Koyaanisqatsi
- I thought pads sucked blood from women. It wasn't until later in life that I knew their actual purposeAnon
- i used to believe that women wore bras because their periods happened in their boobies.Anon
- a male friend of mine used to think that only women who had been pregnant had periods— oiman
- when i was 5 years old I thought that a pregnant women deliever the baby by vomiting it — Nesreen Tashkandi
- I was horrified when my first period arrived. It wasn't blue, like in the commercials for sanitary towels.— Jane