sex: periods

When I was 12 and started my period, I discovered it when I went to use the restroom. Mom had already had "The Talk" with me, so I knew what it was. However, I didn't know that I would bleed for days and days. I thought you just bled once, and you were done for the month. Oh, how I wish that were true!

I used to believe…

while grocery shopping with my mother for an upcomming party, i told her, "we need to get some sanitary napkins in case there is some type of spill". althought i was way too old, i had no idea that "pads" and "sanitary napkins" were the same thing

When i was small i thought that you bled all the time when you got your period so i would look at girls buts and stuff and say it dont look like they are wearing pads and they dont look like they are in pain! untill i was 10 then i found out you dont bleed all the time

I used to be afraid of getting my period because I believed that my [private parts] would suddenly tear apart which would cause agonising pain and a lot of blood to come out.

I saw that boxes of tampons often showed up in our bathroom. I asked her what they were, and she explained that they were for when you got your period and they would soak up the blood. I assumed that periods meant you were peeing out blood, and tampons were a kind of specialized toilet paper that could stop this.

I didn't know what pads were for, so I assumed they were like mini diapers, so that you would just wear it all the time and if your bladder was ever nearly bursting, you'd let a bit out so you'd be okay until you had time to go to the bathroom. You can imagine my moms shock when I asked her why pads weren't advertised for boys too.

When I was grade 4 my aunt and mom gave me this harness and straps with this huge mattress of a menstrual pad and told me the time was coming when I would have to wear it because grown up blood wouldsoon start coming. I had no idea how it would go on and imagined it went around my thigh. I kept checking my right thigh for the hole opening up I would bleed from.

i used to believe when i was little that the tampon dispensers in the bathrooms were mint/gum dispensers.. i was always mad that my mom wouldn't buy me a roll of mints!

When i was little i thought that when my older sister had her period i believed she pooped her pants . I used to take her underwear and go up to her and laugh when she said " thats not poo" i was very confused.

My friend and i are both 15 and she has a sister one year younger. One day we were with our other two girlfriends and our gay guy friend and we (for some reason I can't remember) were talking about tampons. My friend suddenly starts laughing and when we ask her why she says, "When my sister was really little she walked in on my mom in the bathroom, and ran out coming to ask me if she was going to grow a string like mommy." KLind of gross, but still funny!

When me and my best friend first started our periods niether of us used tampons (my mom was scared i would lose my virginty if i did lol).

My friend was the first to use one cuz she got her period on vacation and afterward she was telling me about it. She said at first she started putting it in the wrong hole and i was shocked cuz i thought there was only one hole down there! i was about 12.

When I was about 7, before I knew what a period was, I was at my friend's house and she tried to explain what it was. Well, turns out she wasn't so good at it. She told me that if my mom had pads or tampons under the sink, she was never gonna have a baby again. My mom was pregnant at the time and I was really scared that the baby would die. When I heard the news that my mom was in labor, I was a wreck. The worst hours of my life ended when we got the phone call that I had a new little brother. I still have my friend to thank for that little scare!

I thought when I started my period it was one day out of the month. Not a week. Three days went bye and I told my mom theres something wrong with me, I need to go see a doctor, Im bleeding to death.

I used to believe that if you had a period then you had an awful internal disease, and would have to be rushed to hospital where a nurse would put a thing called a pad up your butt and a pamton in your knickers. I know better now and don't get the names mixed up anymore.

When i was in 4th grade, i went to the bathroom, i opened one of the stalls (u know how u check to see is the toilet is empty and stuff) and i saw blood in the toilet!!!! i though that it was from someone bleeding and dying, so i ran to my classroom and went right up to my female teacher and said "THERE'S BLOOD IN THE POTTY!!"(i though i had saved the day) this happened to me a few times and whenever i told her she'd just be like, okay. i would always be so mad at her for not making a big deal

I used to think that girls became anorexic whilst having their periods because they were too nauseated to eat anything, since loss of periods is one of the symptoms.