periods

when i was about 9 i was snooping around in my sisters room and i found some bloody underwear. I thought that meant she had cancer and she was going to die. Some time later her and my mom went out for supper and i thought that my sister was going to tell my mom about her cancer.

Anon

when we were little my cousin, my brother, my mom, my dad, & i were in the car. mom asked for a kleenex out of her purse & my cousin give her a tampax****!

sassy girl

i used to think that your period came out of your armpit. i have no clue why!

Anon

i used to beileve that getting your period was punishment for having sex. til this day i couldnt tell u why

teenage dirtbag

when i was 10 i started my period. I had started during school. Well Isaw the blood on the toilet and on my underwear I freaked out and yelled," Im Dying!!!!!". So i ran to the school nurse and when I told he she started laughing at me, and told me how to use a pad. Well I went home and my mom gave me the whole "My baby girl is growing up" talk it was imbarising. But the worst thing is that every one heard me say i was dying and so every ont knows i have my period!

early bloomer

when i was little, i used to be so scared of starting my period, cos i thought that it was continuous and you never stopped bleeding, i was so relieved when i found out it only happened for a few days every month!!!

kim

Before I knew about periods and stuff, I asked my mum what these little packages (sanitary towels) were and she told me they were 'lady's tissues'. I got the wrong message thinking whenever my mum got a cold, she'd use these 'lady's tissues'.

WelshAndProud

i remember being in my parents room, i must have been around 7 or 8 at the time, and i came across a box of tampons. so i went through the whole box and opened and cut the strings off of every single one. then she had to sit me down and explain what they were to me.

tampon gurl

When I was in fourth grade, the fifth graders were all hyped from the big HEALTH CLASS. I had some friends, and I asked what was so funny. They said they were learning about periods. I thought of the punctuation. I guessed it was slang for some really horrible sex term, and was all, "okay"... Asked my mom when I got home, and I was absolutely horrified. And the fourth grade accidentally got the sex ed permission slips for the fifth grade. We were all like GOD HELP US TAMPONS BE THE WORST THING EVER!

Pervy middle schoolers

When I was about 8, there were ads in magazines and on billboards,and they showed a girl sitting in a corner on a street, looking a bit sad for some reason. It said: "When you get your period ... (can't remember the rest). Because that girl was out on the street and looking sad, I believed that getting your period was the same as running away from home.

Barbera

I first learned about the 'birds and the bees' from a book. In the book it had a front-on picture of the female reproductive system. I believed that it was a diagram of the inside of the whole body - that the woman would hold an egg until it went into her blood and down to her feet. :)

Anon

once when my aunt died.. i thought it was because she bled to death on her period. i believed that for years.

emilyyyy

i used to believe that in order to put a tampon in you would have to push the piece of cotton out before you could push it up in you. After countless waisted tampons my mom finally told me how you were really supposed to do it. i felt like such an idiot!!!

ANON

Once when I was really little, like three and a half maybe, I found a box of sanitary napkins under the sink. While my mother was out in the living room entertaining a male family friend, I decided to show everyone a new use for those sanitary napkins. The next thing you know, theres little Sara, skating out into the living room with nothing on at all except for a sanitary napkin, sticky side up, on either foot, and one, sticky side up again, on my privates. i dont know...I was a strange little bird.

anon

Up until I was about 10 years old I used to think that when you got your period, a rush of blood would come out of your vagina once a day for 3-8 days per month. I didn't know why anyone would want to wear pads or tampons the entire day.

Caitriona

When I was 6, I thought that your period came out of your butt. Later on I was told that it came out, you know where, and when I was at the mall I kept telling people that I thought I was on my period...I was 8!!

Kat

When I first started my period at age thirteen, I was totally freaked out. I especially hated the way I could feel the blood running (ewww!), and I believed that if I was humming to myself I would trigger the blood so that it would run more. I figured humming would make my pituitary gland vibrate, and that would cause the blood to flow. I stopped humming while on my period for about a year...

Carrie

I used to believe that the monthly period lasted only a day. Boy. don't we wish!!!!

"Apie"

a few months ago, my mom had just got done talking to my sister about periods and she told her that women can get their periods at around age nine and I walked in. my sister proudly tells me that she si going to have her period at 9 o'clock. i wondered what my mom had told her.

god help me

I used to think used tampons were stuffed mice and I always wanted a mouse so I actually picked the dirty one off the garage floor near trash can and showed it off to my buddies and their parents....... NOW I realized why grown ups gave me some surprised looks!!! VERY DISGUSTING!

TAMPOUSE