When I was very little I overheard my older sister saying that she started her period. When I asked her about it she said that once a month older girls bled from their special place. Soon after that I saw a tampon commercial showing girls doing stereotypical girly things including painting their toenails. I heard them talk about periods and I saw the girls wearing those pedicure toe-separator things and, up until I had health class in 5th grade, I believed that girls on their period bled between their toes every month. From that moment on, I have always hated feet.
A childhood belief about periods
others believed things like this
- I thought that the difference between girls and boys was that girls have teeth.
Anon - I used to believe all babies came out as girls and later on in life some of those girls turned into boys — Tom
- My mom told my sister that if she didn't eat her peas, her period would last for an entire month.— Maya
- When my mom was a child, she thought that while girls had periods, boys had hemorrhoids!Anon
- For years I thought that spunk was a male period and that boys spunked once a month - Yeah right!— Stupid Child
- In first grade a boy told me that he could see girls naked with his microscope lens. I beleived it for years.— Jeanette