Up until i was nine i thought that you swallowed tampons until one day while driving on the motorway i asked my mum and best friend how the tampon gets down to your vagina before the blood starts, they started laughing hysterically and explained it for me
A childhood belief about periods
others believed things like this
- once me and my friend stuck her mums tampons up are butts thinking that you didnt have to poo— ha ha ha ha
- I used to believe that when I started menstruating, I would bleed to death from losing too much blood.— Debbie
- when I was young, I heard that blood had iron in it. I thought blood was red because it was rusty.— Hunter
- my aunt used to have an imaginary friend who instead of having blood had 7-up in her veins.Anon
- I used to believe that "the motorway" was one big long road that went absolutely anywhere in the world!!!Anon
- My nephew (age 7) thought tampons were plugs for diarrhea. Anon