periods

When I was younger and watching sanitry towel adverts with them pouring water over the pads to show how they absourbed the water, my fagile mind convinced me to think that when your older, women would wet themselves on their periods!!!

manda

i thought tampons were butt plugs!

Anon

When i was little i used to think that pads were rolls of toilet paper and that boobs were water balloons so i used to walk around with water balloons on my chest and a roll of toilet paper down there. now i know the real meaning of both ;)

kiki

When I was 5, I remember seeing my mom putting a pad on, and I giggled at her for wearing a diaper while I was wearing big girl underwear. I didn't know what periods were until I was 11, and until then I was convinced that my mom wore diapers.

Kala

When I was younger I would watch TV and see those commercials for those pads that girls use when they are on their period. I thought that girls had to use them because they couldn't hold it when they had to pee.

R. Jett

I used to believe that when you had your period, you just stopped peeing, because your thingy would be busy bleeding, and it couldn't produce blood and pee at the same time, right? Then I figured out that there are TWO HOLES down there.....and I was one of the *smarter* kids when I was younger, lol.

Anonymous

When we were all 12 or so and getting our periods for the first time there was one girl in our group who hadn't started yet and as it was a big thing for the rest of us we were constantly talking about it...so once all of us had started but one she came to me one day and told me she had her period and could she borrow a pad. I asked her a little later how it was and she said it was alright but the pad was sticking to her and made it uncomfortable to walk...she'd stuck it to herself and not her underpants.
As it turned out she was so desperate to be just like the rest of us that she pretended to have her period but had no idea what to do....Were we really that clicky back then?

Adèle

I used to believe tampons are for dental uses cuz sometimes dentists had to put the cotton rolls in my mouth between my teeth and cheek to absorb my spit so I wont drool. When I lost my tooth at home it was bleeding alot so I was looking for toilet paper but we ran out of it so I found tampons and pushed the applicator to get cotton part out and PUT THEM IN MY MOUTH to absorb blood!! I walked around in the house with string sticking out of my mouth until my mom pulled it out then throw in trash and handled me paper towel.

bionic

When i was little, i used to think tampons were those toilet paper roll holders since the package was the same shape. Then one day I told my mom i thought we needed a new roll holder and got out a tampon for her. She laughed hystarically and told me that those were not roll holders and said that i wasn't allowed to touch them. LOL

Chelle

I used to believe that when you had your first period blood would run out like it does on a sink.

Drippy

I had been given limited sex-ed in grade school so I thought I understood the whole "having your period" thing. A little bit of outflow for 5-7 days? No problem!

I was so upset when I got my first one and found out that you bled *the entire time*, not just once a day.

Anon

i saw my mum's pads, and when i asked what they were she told me: "diapers for adults." i felt so proud of myself that my baby brother and my mum wore diapers but i didn't.

Oops!

When I was little, my sister told me that our pet dog had her period and that was why she was bleeding. I went running for my mother screaming that our dog was going to bleed to death from her period.

Kelly

My friend Theresa's mom told her that if you used a tampon, that you weren't a virgin anymore. She didn't believe me when I told her the truth and for all I know, she still doesn't.

T.K.P.

When I was about 8 or 9 I thought that you would get your period once, and then you could have a baby, and when you're body was too mature for a baby you would have another to let you know that you could no longer have children. I wish it was that way!

Anon

I used to beleive that when you got your period, it was just one little thing of blood, and that was it. I didn't realise it lasted for a couple of days, so when I was continuously going, boy was I freaked.......

The Lady who said too much

when I was younger, I used to think that pads were so if you had to go to the bathroom you could just got, kind of like a diaper.

Anon

when i was a little girl my mom told me that a period was when a woman cut her thumb each month. boy was i surprised when we watched "the video"!!!!!

Bloody Thumb

My brother once covered my mom's bedroom door with pads. He called them her "airplane stickers".

Raechel

When I first got my period, I never knew anything about it, so I thought I got a cut on my butt. I really thought I was dying.

Gina