periods

When my sister was about sixteen my college educated mother found she was using tampons and became hysterical.She called the Dr. and shrieked about how my sister wasn't a virgin anymore and "no decent man would marry her". The Dr. must have thought mom was a nutcase but he finally calmed her down by giving his word as a doctor.My sister almost got grounded for a month!

anonymouse

I used to think that maxi pads were big band-aids.

Keesha

When I was a little kid, i found my moms pads in her bathroom and for a very long time, I figured that they were to catch the pee that got stuck in your pubic hair. . . . . I was about 8

D

When I was little, I always found the tampon holders in my mom's purse. I thought that they were the things that held the toilet paper on the holder.One day I asked my dad why my mom took the t.p. holders to work. I finally found out by watching the movie at school!!!

confused little girl

My mom used to wrap presents to mail to out-of-state relatives really well in a lot of tissue paper. One day, when I was 8 or 9, I found her sanitary napkins in a bathroom cabinet. Thinking that something "really cool" was carefully wrapped inside, I tore several to pieces, looking for a treat, only to be disappointed.

Robbie

once me and my friend stuck her mums tampons up are butts thinking that you didnt have to poo

ha ha ha ha

When I was little, I once believed that pads were used for wiping tables... until my mom told me they were used to suck up blood. So I used it as a band=aid.

Sunny

This happened about the time I was first starting to use the toilet on my own.

My mom would take me to the bathroom, and sometimes I would notice that she would put these weird things in her underwear. I thought that it was there so that she could pee without having to go to the bathroom. I wanted to do the same thing, so when she wasn't looking, I used to wad up some toilet paper and put it in my underwear too.

When I was eleven and got my first period, it all made sense...

Funky Cold Candita

The first time I used a tampon my mother sent me in to the bathroom to try it out. I was so scared I couldnt believe THAT THING could fit in me. When I came out I asked my mom why it hurt to sit down. I thought the applicator was supposed to stay in too! No wonder it hurt. We still giggle about it to this day!

L B

my friend thought that tampons were sticks of dynamite... he'd stick them between books on the bookshelf with the string dangling out. and then try and light the end.

Anon

Because of a very vague explanation by my mother, I used to believe tham women made an egg every month and than flushed it.

I wish it was that easy...

rose

When I was little all of my older sisters and their friends were getting their periods and talking about them. I didn't know what a period was, so I associated a 'menstrual cycle-period' with the 'punctuation mark-period'. I one day chased my older sister trying to see the "period dot" on her "peepee", that they called a "period". I thought it was a little tiny dot somewhere down there that bled. Of course, unfortunately, I know NOW what a period really is.

Miranda

In fourth grade, the classrooms that my friend and I were in was in a different part of the school where all the older kids were. The first week of school was when we first saw the pad and tampon dispenser in the bathroom. Both of us were mystified at what was in there. So during lunch one day, my friend brought some quarters and dimes and we were going to investigate. First, the pads we figured were just for people who had a hard time making to the bathroom in time. The problem was we couldn't even guess what a tampon did so at the end of lunch, we hid the things under the teacher's desk. It was only until the next year that we had the sex education talk.

Can't think outside of the dispencer box

When I was younger I watched a television show where a girl got her period. I was watching with my older brother, so I asked him what a period was. He looked really uncomfortable and pretended like he didn't hear me. After a bit of thinking, I finally decided that a period was when a girl got boobs. Like, one day, all at once, a pair of boobs would just sprout up! And each month, around the same time, the boobs would grow just a little bit bigger until you were old and then they stopped growing and you didn't have your period anymore. I was very disappointed when I found out what a period really was years later.

Jessica

I used to believe... if you were a teenager and got a tampon wet by placing it under a running faucet (in the bathroom specifically), it would start bleeding.

Menstruating Misses

when i was little, i thought that once you go your period you had it forever. like everyday for the rest of your life.

i was so relieved when i learned the truth

Anon

One time I found my mom's pads, and looked at her, and said, "Why do you have diapers?" she told me, "They're not diapers. They keep all the bad things from getting in your underwear."

Astonished at these protection devices, I wondered why police didn't wear them. My little sister started sticking some all over the walls one day, and I snatched them from her, yelling, "Are you stupid?! Do you want the bad stuff to stay in our house?! Take them off right now and put them around you, or else some bad people are going to come into your underwear!"... Unfortunately, some guests were over, and I ran into the living room, grabbing my sister's arm, and pointed at one of my dad's friends, who I thought was a bad guy. "See! If you don't put these around you, not the wall, then that guy will go into your underwear!"

I then glared at the man, and pointed my finger, yelling, "You stay away! We got pads and you're not going to get into our underwear!"... Boy, was my mom upset with me.

Nicole

My mum never talked to me about periods, so I just picked up information as a I went along.

I didn't realise they only happened once every four weeks - I thought once they started you didn't stop bleeding until menopause.

I'm so glad I was wrong...

PK

My friend who is 17 years old thought a tampon was a cigar and tried to smoke it! no wonder why he was a reclassified sophomore!

Anon

When I was in about 3rd grade I still didnt know about periods so I always used to tink that the pads in my moms bathroom were things kinda like diapers, so when my mom had to go pee in public, shed just go in the pad. So one day I went to school with a pad in my underwear and during class I had to go pee. So I just went in my pants. Then, to my surprise the pee didnt soak into the pad to well, I ended up going home that day early because my pants were all wet. Once I found out wat pads were really used for I felt so embarassed and so stupid...

Megan