As a little girl, my mother would take me into the bathroom stall with her. When I saw the spiked edges of tampons, I thought they were what made the vagina bleed.
A childhood belief about periods
others believed things like this
- When I was a little girl, I thought all babies came from 'China' (a Vagina)— Lainie
- I used to think that tampons were meant to absorb women's urine so they wouldn't have to go to the bathroom.— Koyaanisqatsi
- That blue cheese was made by scraping mould off bathroom walls. My mother actually told me that.— sandee
- When I was a kid, I found out about a womans period and I thought that she would bleed through her breasts.— Michael
- A girl could get pregnant going to the bathroom after a boy.— Brandy Gallop
- My nephew (age 7) thought tampons were plugs for diarrhea. Anon