periods

In the third grade, I became curious about periods, and asked my mother what it was. She simply told me it was "when your bellybutton bleeds once a month". Well, i mentioned this to a girl in my class, and her mother had told her it was "when your bum bleeds once a month". (gross..) Anyway, we figured out what was in between, and solved the mystery

lisa

When I was little, I thought pads were a fashion accesory. I didn't find out until Grade 4.

Fashionably Challenged

my friend told me that a girl would wear a tampon if she wanted to have sex whie on her period (we were i think 12)...now i wonder why i never saw how almost impossible that is.

Anon

My little sister looked in the bathroom cabinet to find some of my sanitary towels.

She brought them into my room, while all my friends were with me, and asked me why i still wore nappies at my age!

My friends were laughing the whole night!

AnnoyedWithLilSis

When my mother and I were watching TV, a commercial came on about a cork you stick in yourself during a period. I didn't want to get older for fear that I would have to shove a cork up my privates, further and further until it was all the way in there and it would hurt extremely bad.

Katrina

WHen I was in 2nd grade my bomb-loving friend and I found a tampon (in package - plastic applicator and all.) We thought it was a bomb/firecracker kit with built-in fuse, and so we filled it with calcium carbide ("Bangsite") and soaked it in rubbing alcohol. We were disappointed when we lit the string and only a faint blue flame appeared (from the alcohol, I guess.)
When I was in 6th grade and my mom explained to me about tampons, I was embarassed for years about the bomb-making incindent from just 4 years prior.

bombs on bloomfield

I seriously believed until I actually started having one that the period itself lasted for 28 days-not the time that came after it until a new one. Man,that would have been pretty painful!

Glowworm

One day when i was a kid my mom was talking to my older sister about how she hated going to the doctor for her monthly exam. At this I piped up, "I know why you don't want to go to the doctor. Because he's gonna give you your period!" I was fully convinced that that was how it worked. Kind of makes sense right?

Shelly

When I was 9 or 10, I'd read all the teen magazines and I'd see all these ads for pads. Confused, I went and asked my mum what pads were and she said it was to avoid staining your underwear. I thought to myself, "I could use some pads," because I was starting to get discharge and it was staining my underwear, and that's what I thought my period was.

Anon

When I first learned what a period was, I understood the whole 'blood' part, but I was convinced it was only going to be a speck or two. I was scared to death thinking I might start my period and never even know it. At age eleven, this was proven wrong. Sadly. God, how I WISH it would go by unnoticed!

Bia

My mother used to call "periods" "imperial." As a kid, whenever I saw the TV commercial on Imperial Magargine -- yeew, you got the picture.

Missed that bullet

My cousin once told me that you bleed out of your armpits when you had your period and you had to put a big maxipad to keep the blood from leaking. then when i really started my mom told me it wasnt true.

ashley

my friend's little brother used to belive that you got a period after you kissed a boy. when my friend got hers he over heard us talking and he shouted " MOM MOM!!!!! ALEX KISSED A BOY!!!!!!" we laughed so hard it wasn't funny!

jean

I used to think that a period happened in both a male and female, and instead of blood, a man/woman would have occasional orgasms/ejaculations at random times as they got older.

Stevensonbak

My mum got me some books on periods and growing up and the like from the library when I was about that age, and since they were a little out of date I assumed I would have to get a belt and pad get-up like our mothers used to have to wear.

Anon

I read a book in the library because I was bored, about girls and puberty. I learned about how we have periods, and I learned about tampons. I thought you were only allowed to use one tampon in your entire life, and periods lasted every day. (It got reaaaaaaaaly distorted) I knew they started when you were 10-14, but I thought they lasted until the day you died. I also thought everyone wore a tampon always, and that it turned into a baby when you got married (I had a wild imagination). I never knew about sex because my parents were strict, very strage catholics, but I figured it out through another library book =). So, after we left the library, I saw a buch of women and thought "They all have tampons inside them." I finally got straightened out by my mom when I was 10. Thank God.

Catalina

when i was small, i used to think your period was when you started growing hair on your private parts. When my older sisters friend got her period, and we couldnt go to hurricane harbor, i was so upset. i couldnt figure out why! I just kept thinking "well does it itch or something?!"

wetawd

I used to believe that tampons were diapers for girls because they can't control when they pee...

Tien

I used to beleive that if you wore a pad, you would automatically get your period, because on the box it said" pulls fluids away quickly" I remember putting one on and then feeling something leaking out of me.... turns out i had just peed my pad.

Too Bad

When I was little I would go through my mother's purse and find tampons. I always thought they were some sort of candy, and I would get mad when she wouldn't share any with me! (x_x)!!

Andrea