periods

After my mum told me that during a period an egg was released, I was convinced that an egg like a hen's egg came out of a girl(looking like a poached egg in your pants) and that was the reason for wearing sanitary towels!
Why didn't she just give me a fuller explanation?!

Anon

(1955)I was about nine years old, sitting in the back seat and enjoying a casual drive with my mother and her friend on a warm, Sunday afternoon. We happened passed a large building within a hospital complex where I noticed, carved on its cement surface in large capital letters, was the word, "ADMINISTRATION". I recalled something I read from my, "Everything a Boy Should Know About Sex", book and wanting to show off my knowledge, I shouted out, "Mom, I know what that building is! That's where women go every month!"

Mickey Ray

I used to believe that a period was when you got cut on your leg,cuz I saw my sisters pants in the laundry basket with blood around the thighs,and me being nosy me,heard them sitting down to the "period talk".So one day while riding my two wheeler in a very strange way,(I was 4 and just learned to ride a two-wheeler)My friend,who happened to be a boy,fell off his bike and scraped his knee badly.Then I laughed to myself.I wanted to be grown-up!So I rid my bike into a brick wall.Ouch.So my mum wouldn't let me ride for a week.Then I found a case of tampons and started putting them on my ankle,where the scrape was.My dad walked in,and started laughing at me.

I had no idea why until age 9,when my older friend told me.Then,a year later,"it" happened.

Um...so...

My Grandmother told me that if a girl kisses a boy too soon it will make her have an early and difficult ministration. So I saved my first kiss for when I had my first period.

Anon

I thought that when girls got their period every month it was a one-time thing, like you're sitting watching TV and all of a sudden a small bunch of blood comes out, you change your underwear and you're done. I was too shy to ask anyone and only discovered the truth that spring when I was 12.

Gina

I used to believe that sanitary napkins was the name of moist towellettes

Anon

when I was younger I thought pads were used to catch those little drops of pee that got in your pants if you didn't get there quite in time. Later I found out it was to keep blood off you pants, and not pee, I was like "oh so it's for catching blood when you get a shaving nick down there, not for pee, that explains it!" Then a few years later I realised it was the whole menstrual system and thought my solution was so much more practical than that.

alittlebitslow

I saw pad advertisments on t.v. and thought they were for people with bladder problems since they could "absorb liquid" and gave "excellant protection at night."
When I was 11 and finally asked what pads were for, my older sister quickly explained it, but I was confused and thought that once you got a period, you had it forever, like you were going to bleed down there non-stop until you were old. Naturally, I was absolutely terrified of getting my period!

bleeding-to-death

I saw blood on a mattress once and asked if someone had been killed while sleeping on it. Later I learned about menstruation.

Soap

when i was like 3 or 4, i followed my mom into the bathroom and saw she was putting a pad in her undies while she was on the toilet. i had no idea why she did it. maybe she was just unique..? i thought it was toilet paper so i put a bunch of toilet paper in my underwear. later when my mom was helping me get in my pjs that night, she saw it and got mad. i thought maybe she was emberressed. for a while i had the idea that old old women did it.

dessy

I used to think that the "napkins" in the dispenser in the ladies restroom were actually napkins to dry your hands on. I was in the restroom once with a friend and we had washed our hands and were trying to decide if we wanted to use the paper towels or the special "napkins". I thought they must be pretty special if you had to pay for them.

Holly

I used to beleive that a period was when your boobs grew

sarah

While riding home from grocery shopping in the back seat of the car, I gfot bored and pick up a box of tampons from one of the bags and read the outside of the box. I saw the word "menstruation" - figured it was something like "men's - ture - ation" and had something to do with men. I woudl be becoming one in a few years so I asked by parents what I was in for. They told me after we got home. I was relieved to find out that I wouldn't have to worry about it. But I felt so very bad for girls who would have to undergo that for every month for most of their lives.

How come it's not "womenstruation"?

My friend used to believe until he was in college that a tampon was used like a Q-tip and would be used to swab and clean out the stuff and then you would throw it away.

Anon

I don't remember if I actually believed this or not, but my grandmother used to tell me that virgins weren't supposed to use tampons.

laf

when i was like 2 my older sibling who now had a sex change from a man to a woman told me u put batteries in tampons to make them work need less to say when got to the age there were no batteiries

star child 77

i use to think after hearing girls have periods, that you only get it once and then your a woman, wish it was true...

Anon

I was told that once you got your period you could have a baby. I was always a tomboy and had more guy friends than girls, and the first time i got my period i had two of my guy friends at my house. I told them to leave thinking they could get me pregnant. I think i thought when you had your period you automatically got pregnant that you didnt have to have sex or something. I dont know.

Kara

When I was in elementary school, I believed that girls could only get their periods if they were sitting on the toilet. Boy was I surprised when I got my first period!

almiras

I used to believe that getting one's period would be the same as going to the bathroom. When it had to come out, I could just sit on the toilet and it would come out.

Imagine my surprise when I learned the truth.

demented pixie