periods

When I was 11 years old, I thought that because my mom got her first period when she was 11 1/2 I would too. So on the EXACT day I turned 11 1/2 I celebrated and waited all day for my period to start. It didn't come until 2 1/2 years later. For some reason I thought it was going to be precise.

TMW

When I was little, I thought that periods lasted only a half an hour, where you'd bleed out copious amounts of blood all at once. I also thought that babies came out of your belly button! What an odd kid I was, before I discovered the internet.

Nikki

I used to think that a menstrual cycle was a type of bicycle and i wanted to ride one.

Anon

When I was little and I heard about getting your period, I thought that once it started, it would never stop, you'd be bleeding constantly til menopause.

Erin

I used to believe that your vagina and urinary tract were one in the same. I didn't understand how you could have your period for a week straight and be able to wee at the same time.

Sarah

when i was young (maybe 6) i had seen my mom changing her pad.... and i when i looked i didnt say anything (i was a shy kid) and but in my mind... i was like OMG WHATS WRONG WITH MY MOM?!?!?! WHY IS SHE BLEEDING?!?!?

now that i know......lol!

just someone.

i just found out that my 6 year old brother was taking my tampons out of my cabinet and giving to his friends at school. he told them that they were suppose to put them in their butts and leave them in there for a lond time.

kimberly

after hearing about the virgin mary in church, i asked my mom what a virgin was, and she said it was a girl who hadn't fully developed yet, like mary, since she was so young. when i was in the 5th grade, my friend dara got her period. my mom heard about it from my teacher, and she told me. so for awhile i would say that dara wasn't a virgin anymore.

katrina

When I was in the fifth grade my friends and I had a boy in our class convinced that tampons were a kind of candy and he beleived us. We even told him there were special blood flavoured ones for halloween! He thought that was the coolest thing ever!

Courtney

I have to:

When I was in my first year of Sex Ed, (i was probably about 10, my school started telling us these things early) the teacher showed us a tampon. She told us that it was like a pad rolled up into a tube, and that if we used them there woulf be directions in the box, so she didnt need to explain ow. This left me with some wrong assumptions. I thought that tampons were just what she'd said, rolled up pads, and that women would use them at work, or in the public toilets, because they were easier to carry and more inconspicuous to take out of your purse.

After alll my misunderstandings had be cleared up, i felt that i knew eveything about getting periods. When mine came when I was 12, i wasn't too alarmed, because i knew that it would come sooner or later. A few months later, i was at the seaside with my best friend. WE knew everything about eachother, and naturally i told her that the reason i had a bad stomach ache was that i had my period. When we were at the beach, she pulled my aside and said "WAit, i forgot, you cant go in the water, or you'll attract sharks!" HEr parents (very religious and kind of old fasioned) had told her that using tampons made you lose your virginity, and she had read someplace that blood in the water makes sharks come.

Girl whose brother used to think that tampons were those little plastic parachute men

When I first got my period, I was afraid to use a tampon because I thought I would lose my virginity.

Julie

I had my first period when I was 10 years old, and thought that was it - you never got one again. So, one day I proudly announced in front of my Nan and Grandad, two aunts and my mum, "Hey guess what?! I don't have to wear sanitary pads any more!!!"

Anon

I used to believe that having your period was no big deal. I had seen all the ads on tv for pads and tampons and thought that they were just being dramatic. I decided that when I got my period I would just ignore it and not go crazy with pads and stuff like those silly women in the ads. When I was 11 I was told by my friends what a period really was. I was horrified to learn that it could last a week and that every women HAD to have pads or tampons. But thank goodness I learned that in time.

Anon

lmao! my first period ... i thought i had internal bleeding and was going to die im so glad i didnt tell my mum that she would have died laughing!

Anon

when i was about nine, i was playing at my cousins house in one of our favorite climbing trees and my brother did or said something to make me mad so, being the drama queen i was got on my cousins bike and started to pettle down the hill when the chain popped, so i couldnt stop and was going too fast to jump off. Needless to say i ended up crashing into the side of the house. That night when i got home i was changing for bed and thaught i was herniating. I started to cry and my older sister explained that it was just my peroid. To this day i think of that crash once every month!

Anon

My mum asked me what I knew about periods when I was nine. It was awkward but I told her. I said, "well you belled every month...." My little sister, who was 7 at the time walked in and said, "well if u bleed every month, just use a band-aid.

Haley

I used to believe that when you had your period you would bleed out of a hole in your skin, kind of at the bottom of your tummy. I thought when it happened to me i would just use a band-aid to stop the bleeding. my friend told me it happened in year 4 so I dreaded year 4 for many years. I also thought it only ever happened once. (if only it were true.) I soon figured out it happened every month but still thought it was a one day event so when I got my period for the first time that night I didn't use a pad because I thought it was all over. I had a rude awakening.

Jo

Haha well when I was in elementary school, one day I went in the bathroom and found blood on and in the toilit (gross i know). Well after that I went back into my class, went up to the teacher and said
"I think someone died in the bathroom"
then she said " Where!?"
Then I showed her and she started laughing and said noo silly, a girl just had her period...
Then I went home and asked my mom.. I finally found out what it meant like 2 years ago.. =)

Samantha

I thought that your period came out all at once and you had to wear a pad around the time it would come.

Sarah

When I was about 8, my mother explained the female version of puberty to me, but never used the word "puberty." She just said, "when you start your period." Shortly after that, I asked my dad when boys grew hair on their bodies and he explained that it happened during puberty.

So, at about 9, when a friend of mine told me she was starting puberty, I was really confused. I was too shy to say, but I wanted to tell her that only boys go through puberty. I guess it's a good thing I kept my mouth shut!

XiuZan