Just after starting my first period, my mother told me that girls can't use tampons until after they have had sex. I believed this until I was 16. My mother claims her mother told her that and she also believed it until I was 16!
A childhood belief about periods
others believed things like this
- my mother told me if i ever swallowed chewing gum i'd turn into a pig, i believed this for many years.— stuart hayward
- When i was young,my mother told me that she picked me up from the park. i believed it for a few years— Jennifer~
- Yeah I believed (because my mother had told me) that your 'willy' would fall off if you played with it :D— Doz
- I believed that my mother invented toast.— Helen
- When I was little I believed that the mother vomited the baby. Anon
- When I was young, I believed that because my mother was born in New Mexico, that I was part Mexican.Anon