periods

I used believe that when you had your period the blood would come out of your vagina, and your nipples. So i thought the purpose of the bra was to keep the blood from leeking out of that area.

McKenzie

When I was a kid for some reason I considered that a period is something you have only on daytime. No one had explained to me about the nights. So when I got my first one at the age of 11, I used a pad until the bedtime and then simply threw it away. And, of course, woke up with a big surprise in my bed!

Anon

When I was in 3rd grade I went to the bathroom in school one day only to discover a toilet filled with blood. I was mortified and ran out of the girl's bathroom. I thought that someone had died or was murdered in the stall and never told anyone because I was afraid that the killer then might come after me. Imagine my relief when I learned about periods.

Nicole

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

hahahahaha

i used to thought that period is when you pee like a baby for a few days...

i'm totally weird

I used to believe that the sanitary napkin dispenser in womens' bathrooms were really candy dispensers that only adults could use. I tried time and time again to get my mom to buy me some candy from the machines, but she always refused, never really explaining what would be dispensed instead.

Bonnie

I used to think that boys had periods abit like girls do. I thought that they needed sanitary towels for their wet dreams!!

Crazy Foo

I use to think that , when you had your period and if you had a tampon on that you couldn't go pee....until my friend told me and she never lets me forget

theres another hole!!!!!

I found some of my mom's spare maxi-pads (the old-school, enormous ones, big as hot dog buns) and assumed they were gigantic Band-Aids. I was puzzled by them for the longest time, mainly because I figured that if you wounded yourself badly enough to require a bandage that big, a trip to the emergency room would make more sense...

jake

When I was 6 or so, my best friend Amber and I were trying to make playdoh with out a recipe, or supervision. We had dumped to much water in it, and dyed it red so it looked like a bowl of blood. Amber looked at it and said "This looks like a period", I thought she was weird since we had just learned about puncation in school and replied "Nuh-uh! Periods are at the end of a sentence.". Amber laughed and said "Periods are what you get after you have a baby!". I thought she was right since her mom had just had a baby, and belived her until I was about 9.

.*.Cassie.*.

A friend of mine got her period in 3rd grade (rather an early bloomer don't you think) and most of us didn't know what it was yet. So she found and came running running into the classroom screaming "Help! Help! I'm peeing blood!" I was one of the few who did and you can imagine I had quite a laugh about it. And of course, we still tease her about...

Crackin Up

I used to think masterbation (i think I spelled that right) was the same thing as a period...so I used the word masterbate a few times instead of period, no one ever corrected me


I didn't find out I was wrong until i was 12...man was I embarassed because I said "I mastrabated last week." everyone made fun of me because of that.

Megan

I started my period when I was eleven. Not long afterwards I went to stay with my two twin cousins (who were a year younger and had not yet started their period) and my Aunt in their beach house for two weeks out of the summer.
I started my period for about the thrid time not long after I got to their house and was upset and embarrassed because I thought I wouldn't be able to go swimming with them, then they would ask why not.. and I didn't want to tell them that!

I ended up telling my Aunt my "problem" and she suggested that I use the Tampons underneath the sink in the bathroom. I felt like I was able to understand the directions quite clearly on the back of the box after studying them intently for more than a half an hour. So I pulled the bottom part of the applicator from the top piece (figuring it was just a useless piece of plastic) and proceeded to shove the rest of the entire applicator in. I didn't use Tampons for a very long time after that week because of how uncomfortable they felt.

It wasn't until years later that I figured out how they REALLY worked. Needless to say, I felt pretty stupid.

Angela

When my sister and I were girls and saw femenine pads in my mom's drawer we were so excited to find small pampers for our dolls, we actually attempted to go out with our dolls wearing those "pampers", of course our mom didn't let us, so I asked her what it was and she told us that they were used to remove make up, so we believed her until 6th grade when we actually found out the truth.

Silvia

The first time I got my period I thought I had done something terrible and God was punishing me. Nevermind all the time and money my mum had invested in books and talks to prepare me for this very incident...

Dani

One of those tampon comerciacas came on and I turn to my mom ( i was 8) and say why do they have commcials for the dot at the end of the sentence?

Anon

My friend got her period in fourth grade, before any of us ever got The Talk about it. She saw blood in her panties, took it out after school and washed it herself, crying all the while because she thought she was dying.

evy

When I was in year 7, in Sex Ed class, the teacher was discussing periods and how they work. When a classmate of mine rose his hand and asked "if a girl has her period, how does she go to the toilet?" Later when i asked him, he replied "isnt it the same hole?" and thought that the girl had to hold on until her period ended before she could go to the toilet again!

kids these days!

I remember sitting on my bed, reading a magazine, when I saw a tampon ad. I sat there for the longest time trying to figure out where it went. Because the ad said 'odor absorbing,' I thought it went on your armpit. That was just one theory.

Bettie

My brother was the only boy with 4 sisters, and somehow got the idea that girls all get their period at the same time, and it lasts for a month (the term monthly?). He was in high school before a friend set him straight.

April