periods

When I was in primary school a friend told me that the lady teachers had different toilets to us because they got these strange things called "pyramids".

Anon

I was at a friends house and her little sister ran up to us with her 'art'. It was in fact a pad with a mass of scribbles above it. My mum looked fondly at her and asked "Do you know what that is?"
"Yes," she replied, "It's mummies bum liner!!!!!"

Those were the days.....

The first time I used a tampon I didn't know you had to remove the cardboard after you slide the tampon in. Ouch!!! It really hurt and I decided there was no way I was gonna use these things. Finally someone told me how to use them properly.

Tequilatwister2

When we were little my sister and I believed women put tampons up their butts to either prevent them from pooping or to catch the poo. I have no idea what caused this belief, but I remeber not questioning it. I totally believed it. Consequently, I thought that all women used tampons every day.

Seca

It happened to someone I know. Two kid brothers found their mother's tampons and, not knowing what they were, colored them and pretended that they were toy rockets. Then they took them to school--CATHOLIC school. I can only imagine what those poor nuns were thinking...

Meaghan Jade

when i was about 9 or 10, i knew about periods,but not enough. i was reading an advertisment for tampons in a magazine, and judging by the details, it sounded like you stuck them up your you-know-what. i laughed off the idea, because i thought that couldnt possibly be what happened.

...then i found out i was right

anastacia beeverhousen

when i was 12, i started my periods, when i first woke up that very day, i thought i had wet the bet, because it was soaked, but when i saw that it was brown, i thought that i must have pooped the bed. I tried to hide it but the rest of my family found out. I robbed a few of my sisters pads and tampons, and piled up 9 pads and 4 tampons in my underwear, because i thought i just couldn't stop wetting myself, or pooping myself. i didnt quite no what periods were, coz i was off for the sex talk in school.Everyone in school noticed i had huge bulges in my underwear, and that the pads and tampons would keep slipping out and hanging below my skirt, coz i hadn't stuck them in. I got so embarrassed, because someone told the teacher that i had robbed something and snuck it in my underwear, so i had to lower my knickers, and the 4 tampons and 9 pads fell out onto the floor, i was embarrassed, because they put me in a diaper for the rest o the day, and told me about periods

Anon

When I was about 10 or 11 I was at my best friends house and her friend from down the street came over to play for a while.Well, My friends brother came in the room where we were playing and she said something to him that made him mad an he punched her in the stomach an instead of crying or telling she just looked at him and said "You know what happens if you do that!!" Me,My friend and her brother had NO clue what she ment,So after he left we asked her and she thought you had a dozen eggs in your stomach and could could only be hit in the stomach 12 times and if you was hit more you couldnt have babies or your period!

CrazyLittleCowgirl In East Texas

I used to believe tampons were for people with bloody noses. thats what i thought a period was. because my mom has nosebleeds and i thought she stuck tampons up her nose when it happened. so i thought this happened to everyone, even guys because my grandpa (her dad) gets nose bleeds too.
once i walked in the bathroom and saw that my grandpa was having a nose bleed and was wiping his nose. I shouted "oh grandpa its ok that your on your period because my mom has tampons under the sink for your nose." lol i cant believe that. i was only about 3.

Talan's Girl

When I was about 13 years old and started my period for the first time, I was quite pleased with myself, and quite proud. As evening rolled around, it started to get later and later and finally my mother said that I had better get to bed. I asked her what time the period was supposed to stop for the night. I thought it would stop for night and then start up again in the morning. When she told me that it didn't, I was completely outraged.

L.G.

When i was about ten, my mum explained 2 me about periods. i was really scared about coming on. one time @ school i cud feel a little bit of sumthin rubbin between my legs. i was convinced the egg had cum out. i was scared that blood would start to gush out at any moment so i ran to the toilet. wen i pulled down my knickers i realised that the "egg" was in fact a tiny bit of tissue paper.

sillybilly

My (male) friend believed until high school that a girl's period lasted about half an hour, although you wouldn't know wxactly when it would come, so you might have to wear a tampon for a day or two.

I also had a boyfriend in college who assumed girls changed their tampons daily, as one changes one's underwear.

Siobhan

i used to believe that when u have ur period u culd decide not to wear a pad and the blood will not come out so i always thought when i have my period im not going to wear a pad, silly me!

silly gal

I used to believe that the egg that a woman shed during her period would be visible to her and that way she would know that she wasn't pregnant.

Sarah

My brother and I (yeah, I'm a girl) believed for the longest time that feminine pads were to be used as peel-able window-sticky decals, and that tampons were to be used to whipe your butt after taking a crap, in those hard to reach places. We thought it was the "fancy" way to clean your butt out instead of old school toilet paper...Boy did I learn when I got my first period where those things really go! haha...

dee

When I was 5 and my little brother was 3, we went exploring under my mom's sink and found Lite Days Maxi pads...we didn't know what they were, but judging by the shape, we finally figured it out..they were giant band-aids! So me and my brother would go under the sink and put them on ourselves and pretended like we were hurt...we were so proud that we found the giant band-aids...and my mom came in and just smiled...she never told us otherwise...she just let us believe that they really were giant band-aids...so I believed this till I was about 10 years old, until my girlscout troop had a nurse come in to educate us about our periods...

Stupid girl

Well my brother overheard my mom and me talking about how i had gotten my period for the first time, so my brother thought it was when women pee'd on their pants and blood came out of there butts but only women who had kids, i was shy when he asked me all of this so a agrred and until this year now his 13 he found out the truth. lol

NATHALIE =)

One day on the bus my friend was looking in my purse and found a wallet and she wanted to look inside. Well then she did and found my pads. My friend is a year older than me. She was like I am older than you and i still didnt get my period yet. So then the next day on the bus i was looking in her purse and i saw some pads in her purse. The she was like I just go my period. I was like how do you know and she was like because i just had a cramp. Then she lifts up her shirt half way and shows me that she put her pad on her stomach. lol

XxxXAxLITTLExCONFUSEDxxX

I used to believe Tampons were the shape of a arrow! My older sister told me, horrified one day, that instead of those pads mum uses, our aunt used tampons! After asking, with wide eyes, what they were, she described them as arrows you had to put in yourself!
For a good few years I couldn't figure out why my aunt would do that!

Anon

when i was 8 i was talking to a friend about periods and he said he asked his mom and she said "that's girl stuff" so i thought that a period was when girls do "girl stuff" like play with dolls and talk on the phone for a long time. one day my friend (different one) told me to call him after school and i said "i cant, my mom's probably on her period"

Matt