periods

I overheard some girls talking in a field. One (I thought) was saying that there were red pyramids and white pyramids.
I butted in and stated quite plainly that you didn't get red pyramids - they were all yellow.
Then they told me they were talking about 'periods'.
I assume by 'white' they meant discharge - so I'm not sure who this is more embarrasing to.

Susan

I believed the right word was administration. Unfortunately, the correct term was menstruation.

hargoni

When I was about 5, I was peeling the skin off of my mom's back ( she had a bad sunburn ) She was wearing a strapless bra at the time, but it really confused me from looking at it from the back ( because it didn't look like her regular bras ) So I asked her "what it was"...and she said "Guess?" and I thought for a minute and said "A tampon?"
She went into minor shock for a moment and quickly changed the subject. I, of course, had no clue whatsoever.

J.Farris

I believed that when girls got older they no longer had the time to go to the bathroom (I'm sure an assumption based on the tampon commercials with ladies proclaiming a need to accomodate their busy lifestyles). Tampons and pads were the evolution of the diapers.

Anon

I had gotten my first period when I was 13 and I was at volleyball practice. I had felt something come out of my vagina and I ran to the bathroom and I saw all this brown stuff in my underwear. I was terrified. I thought I had a pooping problem since it was brown. I didn't even think it was my period. The thought never even crossed my mind. So, I waited about 2 days to see if it would stop and it didn't so I decided to tell my mom. I was SO relieved when I found out it was just my period.

Relieved

I didn't know how tampons were used. I always thought they sat in the underwear, just like a pad. It never made sense to me.

Teenia

when i was little i wanted to go into my mums bathroom, but she said i couldnt go in. so i waited outside the door and heard paper and stuff. i asked what it was an she said it was mummys nappies. so i figured that you wet yourself when you got older.

iwanttobegerman

I used to think that once you got your period parts of your body started to fall away because you lost blood

Annomous

i didnt know much about the period stuff so when i got mine one day i didnt tell my mom i taught that if this happens again it means i am going to die and it happened the next day i still didnt tell mom the third day my mom found out and she was so happy and then she explained everything to me and she kept telling me how proud she is and she even called my dad at work and told him the news.

raisa

i used to believe that when i put a tampon the plastic was supposed to stay on. this was around the time the "pearl girl" phase of tampons first came out, and i remember being in violent pain every time i used one. I dont know how, but i even got the stick part of the applicator in therre!

sarah.

I used to believe that 'menstruating' meant meditating while sitting in water.

Anon

when i was about 15 i was having a menstrual cycle and needed pads. having never bought them on my own I was very confused when I saw "tucks PRE MOISTENED pads" near the sanitary napkins. My friend laughed at me for years!!!

fawn

I used to believe that when you had your period, urine came out (and not blood). then of course, i learned in sex-ed about the whole thing...it was kind of frightening.

casey

when i first had my period i thought that i'm going to die plus i must stop drinking Shani and red soft drinks! but after i discovered the truth i felt so stupid.

Aaliyah

Until I was about 11 I thought when your period came it was similar to defecation. You see when I asked my mother about the subject when my sister got it she said it came out of your hole (i assumed the butt hole of course) and then I asked what it felt like and i'm not sure but i somehow got the impression that you pooped out red pooness for a week straight. It would just keep coming and coming and I was terrified!

Emily

i was about 10 when i was going across the country with my dad on a grey-hound bus, i went into the bathroom. they had those wet hand cleaner thingys. i thought they were "sanitary napkins" i got so excited about finding them, and i came out of the bathroom yelling, "daddy, daddy, i have sanitary napkins" dad turned beet red, and everyone laughed. it took me forever to figure out why!

Anon

After watching an old Chevy Chase movie with him playing clark grizwold him and his family were driving and all of a sudden they ran off the road and his daughter Audrey(on the movie) yells i think i juust got my period after all of it happened so i thought when you have a wreck you hurt yourself so you bleed every month

drake

I used to believe that periods were like chicken pox,and women used pads to get them off.

Anon

Once when I was about eight or nine I was supposed to go to a winter camp in Brownies. On the packing list they included ''Pads and Tampons''. Our Brownie teacher said, ''Oh don't worry about those. That's for the Pathfinders (the older Girl Guides).''
I didn't know what pads and tampons were so I ran around telling EVERYONE, ''Oh, on my camp list they included pads and tampons but we don't need those! Isn't that dumb?''
My mom shushed me after that.

Anon

When i was 11 years old i got my first period. Not knowing exactly what it was i believed it was the moment in a womans life when she could get pregnant if she had sex. I knew that men squirted some sort of liquid from their penesis, so i remember getting into the bathtub that night and pouring water from the tap directly into my vagina, hoping to get pregnant!!!
i actually rather enjoyed it.

aley