periods

My brother once asked my mum 'where the white mouse goes'.

Orca

When I was little I came across some Sanitary Napkins in my grandmothers handbag. I asked her what they were for and she told me that because she was getting old she needed these in case she wet her pants... I be;ieved her until I was 11!

Sucked in!

When I was younger, I would see commercials for pads on TV. The women in them would always be running on the beach, or standing on the edge of a cliff with her arms wide open breathing the fresh air, or something cheesy like that that usually involved the people with big grins on their face like they were having the best time.

Anyways, I always thought that they were diapers for kids, and they were SO releived that their baby wasn't going to pee in their pants or all over the floor, they would run around smiling.

It never occured to me why the actual diaper-wearing kids were'nt in the commercial.

Laurie

When I first heard about periods, I somehow misunderstood and thought that when you have your period, you pee out blood instead of pee. So after that I would always check the toilet for blood.

Anon.

I use to think pads were for people with bladder problems. But I could never figure out what the red dot was for until later.

Diana

One time on TV I saw a commercial for pads, and being little and curious, I asked my mom what they were for. She said that lots of people pee a little bit when they laugh, cry or cough and the pads were to absorb the pee!

Anon

When I started my period, I thought I had cut myself some how and try to stop the blood with a lot of bandaids...what a dummy!

Blanca

I used to believe that your pee and your period came out of the same holes. so when u would wear a tampon your pee came out of your butt! i have no idea where i got that from.

Talan's Girl

i use to think that when you get older your body was so weak that you couldnt contain your own bladder. either that or you were too busy to afford to go to the toilet. hence the need for pads.

caris

I used to believe that getting your period meant learning where to put a period in a sentence.So I was very little,and had just learned punctuation.My sister came to pick me up from school,and I said "I've got BIG news!"And she was like "what?" and I said I would tell her when we got home.My siter was having her first period then.That's where I got my strange idea from.

So you could just imagine the looks on your mom,aunt's,and dad's face when a 5 year old comes home from school,nose in the air,and proudly announces "I've got my period."We had tea guests also.And my mom pulled me to a corner,VERY embarassed,and said that I didn't,she would explain it all to me later.When I was older.

And Imagine the look on my face when I found out what it truly was.When I actually DID get it.At first,I thought I had a SERIOUS pooping problem and it would stop when I took a poopoo.I didn't tell my mom till 4 days later,when the "pooping" would not stopIt stopped the next day.

Loopy

I used to think tampons were little cups that would fill up, and you'd have to c-a-r-e-f-u-l-l-y dump them out then put them back in. I didn't even want to try using them until I was in college and found out that they weren't cups.

Anon

when i was 11 i havent had my period yet but one time when i was in the bathroom with my cousin . i saw there was alot of blood in the pad . i asked what that was and she told me when i grow up i'll understand . after that i thought my cousin had cut her self ( down there for it to bleed and i didnt know why women would do such a thing ) . eventually i learn it "a women thing" . i didnt has tocut my self to have periods. lol

Joey

(not my beleif) once my friend anne and her 13 year old sister came to my house for a sleep over. later that night we heard her talking on the phone to her mother. anne said she heard something about a period.my 10 year old brother woke up before us and over heard us talking and he asked "what's Alison so worried about?" he heard about periods was but didn't REALLY understand it. Anne said "she got her period, i think." so he said "how can you get a punctuation?" alison, Anne and I laughed so hard it seemed we were crazy.

anne's friend

well when i was a kid , i used to see my sister using sanitary tissues...she tried to hide them from me but as i was a curoius kid, i would try n peek into her cupboard.one day , not being able to hide my curiosity, i asked her what thay were for and she(not knowing what to say) told me that they were for feeding old people as they didnot have any teeths and could only suck liquid food...i kept this belief with me for a very long time untill i stumbled upon the truth...

Anon

When i was about 13 years old I was having a girly chat with my friend about periods and stuff. Then this boy in our class came over and asked us what we were talking about. At first we just giggled and said 'girl talk nothing for you to worry about' and he said 'what like periods?' and we said 'yeah'. Then he started asking about what it was like to have a period and we said stuff like 'trust me you don't wanna know' and 'it's really painful' Then after a while he said 'so do you just sit on the toilet for ages and let it all come out?' and me and my friend were like 'what?' He thought that you went to the toilet and it all came out in one go! he was shocked when we told him that periods last for about a week and every time you go to the toilet blood comes out!

Helen

I was confused about the term "plastic applicator" for tampons. I thought it might be like a plastic butter knife that could be used to spread something onto your underwear.

Giselle

I used to believe that when a woman had her period, the lining retreated into the uterus by puncturing it and going through the holes. I thought those holes were the cause of menstrual blood. I also thought that the umbilical cord was a kind of tube that shot food into the uterus, so I thought there would be sandwiches and things just lying around in there.

somegrrrl

At around age 11, I was at a friends house when I noticed blood in the toilet after her sister went to the bathroom. I was convinced that she was dying of some dread disease and said so to my friend. Then my friend informed me that it was from her period. Boy did I feel stupid.

Anon

Once when I was about 5 yrs old, I saw my mom remove a tampon. don't ask me why, but to me, it looked like a piece of bacon & that's what I thought it was. I asked her for some...

Anon

when i was about five (and way too young to fully understandthe cycles of a woman), i saw an advertisment on tv for pads, i asked my mom what they were for and she said that it is for when older women have accidents, this lead me to believe that as you get older, you have less control over your bladder, so for about three years this knowledge scared the hell out of me.

idiot