periods

I used to think that when you had a period you only bled when you peed and that you had to wear pads because the pressure made you dribble pee on yourself all the time.

Anon

One time I accidentally walked in on my mom changing her pad in the bathroom (it was a new one, so I didn't see any blood). Surprised, I asked her what that was. Seeing as I was too young then to understand what a menstrual cycle is, my mom thought up on the spot "it's a type of grown up diaper".

For a long time I thought to myself "well, what's the point of being potty trained if adults end up wearing diapers anyway?"

Aleks

i used to belief that tampons were rolled up pads in a tube

Anon

When I first started my period I thought that I was going to have it until the day I died (I didn't realize that it came once a month--I assumed once it started it never stopped.)

Anon

I did not start wearing tampons until I started having sex because I was under the impression that the tampon would take my virginity

lily

I used to believe that tampons were noise makers that would make a loud sound if you pulled the strings... That is until I tried it in secret and nothing happened......

Anon

when i was about 8, i used 2 drink a lot of cherry lemonade and cherry cola. when i saw something red in my pee after drinking one of them, i thought it was the cherry in the drink. after not drinking them, i stopped "peeing red". then when i was about 10, my mother told me about periods. it all made sense after that. to this day, i laugh about what i thought when i was 8 everytime i get it.

it's not the cherry lemonade?

when i was 10 i got my period. I ran to my mom crying my eyes out telling her how much i loved her and that i would miss her and to never forget me. when she asked me why i told her that i was bleeding to death. she just laughed and told me that i got my period but i still didn't no what that was until she explained it. Now i think back and laugh!

Amanda P.

i used to think that tampons were for women when they would pee so that it wouldnt go everywhere, cause ive heard stories about how woman would try to pee standing up and it would go everywhere, it wasnt until a few years later when i think i was 11 when i took one and brought it into the kitchen where my parents were and said aloud "what is this thing?" then by dad told me what they were REALLY for, and i was like speachless lol

imnottelling

My girlfriend thought that she wouldn't get her period until she started having sex.

Anon

I used to believe woman's tampons were made to dry your hands with (because there was a tv commercial in which a woman keeps the tampon in her hand and tells it absorbs so much fluid)

Lisa

When i was in 4th grade we had a talk in class about puberty and we had a movie we had to watch about it well...they accidently switched the movies and the guy's got the girl one and we got the guy one it didn't take to long to figure it out but well the guys were realy imature about it

Anon

I used to believe the blood came all at once - didn't understand why you could just sit on the toilet while it came out!

Anon

I used to get red bathwater confused with menstrual blood like if a woman or teenage girl was using red bath foam or shower gel and it looked she was washing all the blood away.

Anon

When I was young, I used to think that "sanitary napkins" were just "really clean" napkins. Once, in an airplane, I came back from the toilet with one of these, prepared to use it while I ate the in-flight meal. My mother, looking horrified, gasped and snatched it from my hands, never explaining exactly what it was for. After that thought it was something quite unsanitary indeed - but what?

dano

I had this crazy idea that when a woman had her period for the first time she walked a certain way. So I would see like 35 year old women and think "Nah, she doesn't have her period yet, she's not walking right".

Victoria

I used to believe that women always had milk coming from their breasts and when they had a baby it drunk the milk, but when women didn’t have a baby they had to put cotton wool in their bras to absorb the milk. I thought this was called ‘having a period’, and these periods lasted until a woman had another baby. And a woman always had to wear a bra to put the cotton wool in to absorb the milk.
My mum told me that if I was naughty and refused to do a poo she would put soap up my bum, and I thought that that would make me poo.

Anon

When i was in 6th grade me and my friend were so imature. We thought that if we were caught saying "period" that we would be in trouble. So we nickmaned it Disneyland. So we would say to one another " Are in Disneyland?" that very same day in Language Arts, we were looking at this picture of a girl, and giving ideas to what she was thinking or doing. Well.....this guy answered "She looks like she was wishing she was in Disneyland or something." We started cracking up. my teacher out us all in detention because we wouldn't tell him why we were laughing.

domino

i never knew menstruation ever existed until i had it at the age of 10. i went to the restroom and saw reddish brownish stuff on my panties. i thought it was diarrhea so i didn't tell anyone because it was quite embarrasing almost as much as peeing in your panties. i would change my panties every hour until it was night and i was getting sleepy, so i thought for a moment and thought if i was sleeping i wouldn't be able to change, so i told my mom and she told me to show her my panties. she laughed and told me i had started my period!:-[ *embarrassed look*

vivian

once, i saw blood in the toilet after my mom got up from it. when i asked her about it she said "my egg broke"
Later i learned that a human's egg is very small, like a period in a book. I wondered how so much blood could fit in such a tiny egg.
I hoped it didn't hurt when the egg broke. Whenever i had blood come out of me it hurt. Later i learned, that yes it does hurt when your egg breaks.

supahC