periods

I must have been about 7 or 8 years old. At the time I was seeing ads for feminine napkins which I thought were individually wrapped table napkins. I could'nt understand why anyone would need individually wrapped table napkins.

David

My little brother and I used to make castles out of toilet paper & paper towel tubes. He went into the bathroom trash to get more for our castle and came back so excited because he had found a canon! It was a tampon applicator!

Heather C.

I was talking to my boyfriend on the phone one night. He asked if I had gotten my period for the month yet. I told him I had it right now. He goes "Oh no you'd better go change! How long has it been sitting there!?" He thought all the blood came out at once and it was just sitting in my underwear.

DC

This is kind of a personal one, but up until about five years ago I used to believe that cramps and PMS and things were imaginary. I thought girls talked themselves into it, or used it all as an excuse to get away with all sorts of crap a man could never do.

I'm 23 and female; it just took me a while to grow up. I was very, very wrong.

T

When i was like in the 5th grade i used to think that only girls with their periods were popular and liked by boys so i would like wish to get my period...it was a rude awakening wehn i got it and i was still not liked by anyone.....

Ugly Duckling

When I was eight, I wanted to go swimming with my friend Ella, who was fifteen. She was having her period at the time, and so couldn't go. When I asked why, she told me that blood comes from your bum and your tummy inflates when you get to fifteen. I cried and cried and worried myself sick about her, and then my mom told me what was really going to happen.

Anon

when i was a little girl i had gotten my first period and my mom was bothering me telling me i had to put on a tampon the catch is that i thought you put a stick up your butt hole

Kristen

when i was in first grade i saw a dispencer for napkins and tampons in a bathroom at an amusement park. i was really confused so i asked the sixteen year old girl next to me if tampons
were napkins in a different language. then my friends mom explained the whole thing to me, and she explained to me what condoms are while she was at it.

n. pantsie

when i was about 13 i began to ask questions about periods because i would hear my sis and mom talk about them. My sister told me that if i didnt have my period by the time i was 15 i would die. I ofcorse believed her and when i turned 15 and still hadent had it....i cried untill my explained that i wasnt gonna die.I'm still just as gullible!

Gina

When I was young I never got the sex ed class. So one day I was playin on a wagon and hurt my privates on the bar. I started my period that night and thought it was from hurting my privates and yelled that I had to go to the hospital. My mom laughed at me for hours.

California kid

When my mom told me about periods when I was 10, I thought you peed out blood once and then you were done. I kept checking for blood every time I peed!I was fraid it might hurt.

Cathy Pee.

i thought tampons were candles

oops

I didn't really know how "feminine products" worked. I had always seen tampons and maxi-pads in my bathroom as a child, but, had never asked my mom how they were supposed to be used. So, when I had my first girlfriend who admittedly had a period, she told me she used tampons. I asked her - "how do you pee with that thing in there?" and she said "you just go to the bathroom and it stays in there." I was shocked! I still didn't understand how she could go to the bathroom with a tampon in her urethra! :) I asked her if it hurt to put the tampon in where she peed -- that's when she explained to me that a tampon goes in your vagina -- NOT in your urethra!

Jerry

When I was about 12, I started my period. My mom had not told me about it yet, because she didn't start until she was 14, so she figured I wouldn't. Needless to say, I thought that I was dying! I didn't tell her for a few days, stuffing toilet paper in my panties. I was so scared! I thought I had a disease. Finally I got scared enough to tell her that I was bleeding down there, and she was all like ," Oh, that's normal"

Clueless

when i was 5 i use to believe that tampons were little rocket ships that moms kept in their purses to entertain their kids. so whenever i saw one in my moms purse i would open it up and push it throught till it dropped on the floor. i use to do this in the middle of stores, with company over, anytime i found one. And if my mom didnt see me do it, id just drop it on the floor and leave it there

kelli Anne

i used to belive that when you got your period your breast would start growing really fast and when u stopped your period u would have HUGE breast!!!
Too Bad

Wierdness(still a KID)

As a little girl, I thought only SOME girls would get their period. So, naturally, I thought it would never happen to me... Then came my huge surprise at nine years old, went I noticed blood in my panties... I ran out of the bathroom crying and screaming for my mom, I couldn't believe it had actually happened to me. I still cried for the next few months before I finally understood and realized that ALL girls had periods, and not just a few unlucky ones...

Lizzie

i once saw a pad advert and i was with my couasain so I asked her. She said its when you have a nosebleed so you use it as a plaster. I bumped my nose the next day and I got a nose bleed so I asked my mum' mum please can I have a pad for my Nose. When I learnt what it actually was I was pretty embarrassed. My couasain still reminds me of that day.

Maddie

My 4 year old daughter thinks that I stick tampons in my butt. I haven't told her anything different

Anon

I used to watch the commercials for pads and think that they were for women who wet their pants.

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