In french the words period and the rules ( such as law to obey ) are prononced the same so when I was young , I used to believe that all the adult women received rules and that hygiene protection ads showed a way to defy the rules without ending up in prison .
A childhood belief about periods

others believed things like this
- I used to belive that the law was a number of rules on a notice board outside Buckingham Palace.— Nathan Vasey
- I thought "prison" and "prism" are the same words as each other.Anon
- I thought the women in Prisoner Cell Block H were actresses banged up in prison themselves.— Reb Kean
- I used to believe when a person was convicted of a crime and sent to prison, his lawyer went to prison, too.— Tara
- When I was younger I thought French Kissin gwas when to french people kissed.......Hah....Stupid huh??? — ~Duckie~
- When I was young I thought that police had soft skin, because this is how it sounds in French " Peau lisse "
— amine