periods

When I was a tot, I went to use the toilet after my mum, and she left something in it that I assumed was the end of a banana dipped in chocolate sauce. I was really confused why she threw that in the toilet, so I thought she was real wack after that. I eventually figured out it was a tampon.

Emma

When I was about 10 my sister got her period and I was sad because I thought getting your period meant you were a woman and I wanted to be a woman already. I actually started crying because I was the only one in the house who didn't have hers!

Anon

When i first got my period, i didnt know what it was cuz it didnt look like blood. i thought i had pooped my pants until the thought came to me that it was my period.

did i poop my pants?

I used to think that my aunt's pads were actually special tissues in packages. I would take them out of her bag and beg her to tell me what they actually were, and she never would... I'd end up running of crying because she was 'mean'. Mind you I was 3. :)

Anon

In french the words period and the rules ( such as law to obey ) are prononced the same so when I was young , I used to believe that all the adult women received rules and that hygiene protection ads showed a way to defy the rules without ending up in prison .

Anaïs

When I was little, I heard that if you bled too much that you die. I had the bad habit of picking my scabs at that time & I knew about my period. I didn't know that your body makes more cells and that you have to bled a lot at one time to die. I thought that if I kept picking my scabs, I'd die because I lost too much blood because of my period. I was such a retard.

Wacky American

(always thought of always)
when i was a kid i use to think that
pads are subsitutes for diapers wich adults pee in if there is no toilet around...another person i know took one to school to use as an eraser for the blackboard <

wa7da

a male friend of mine used to think that only women who had been pregnant had periods

oiman

i thought pads were candybecause of the way they were wrapped up and all.

terri

I use to think that sanitary pads were adult diapers and that was why no adults ever peed in there pants. When I asked my mom if I could borrow her diapers- she nearly died from laughter.

Marge

when i saw sanitary pad adverts on TV, i used to think that they were for cleaning kitchens because they soak dirt so well.

Anon

When I was younger and my mother was on her period, I would always see her using pads [which I thought were adult diapers] and I never thought it was fair for her to be allowed to pee her pants, when I always had to use the potty.

Sham

I was so excited to get my period, because it meant I was going to be a grown up soon. Of course, I also thought people only got their periods ONCE in their lives and then that was it.

Now I understand why there are so many commercials selling pads.

mel

I was im a mall bathroom once there was no nampkins so i was looking all over for napkins (i was only 7) and i saw somthing that said napkins so i put a quarter im it and i rinsed my hands with tampons.....

Funny bone

You know before you actually get periods you have that white stuff... I thought that was my period... I was scared to tell my mom so I took her tampon and tried to use it... later she told me it "wasnt my time"

A white period

My mom has a heavy period and doesn't wear tampons because it would still leak to her pants.
Anyway, one day my day asked me, why doesn't she just very tampons? Wouldn't they just plug it up?

Yes. He thought that tampons actually plug up your vagina and stop any blood getting out. He was stumped when I asked him how he thought all the blood went away.

Anon

this is a boy's belief in my 6th grade science class.
In sixth grade i was doing an assignment with the boy at my lab table. i took out a jumbo pink highlighter. the brand and words on the marker had worn off so it was just plain pink nothing on it. the boy was like oh my god! put that away. i was like chill out what they heck is your problem? he said "thats a tampax. thats the little case you keep your tampax in, gross put it away." my young and really cute science teacher walked up and was like what the heck?! I told the boy it was highlighter and took off the cap and showed him. the boy was so embarassed he got up and went across the room to his friend to get away from me. my teacher looked at me and said "boys can be kind of dumb with girl stuff you know? just ignore it." i could have died. my teacher was SO hott and i was so embrassed i couldn't look him in the eye for a few weeks.

Renee

My first boyfriend couldnt understand how I could be able to pee if I had my period and was wearing a tampon. He thought it all came out of the same hole!!! He was 16 at the time...

Skate

I used to believe my mom's sanitary towels were like diapers and wondered why she couldn't control her pee and I could.

Andrea

A friend of mine thought that sanitary napkins were like adult diapers -- women would wear them if they didn't have time to stop working and use the bathroom.

Erika