I’m 12 almost 13 and yesterday I got my first period I knew it was going it was going to happen sooner or later but I never thought it was sooner. I was sleeping and I woke up and noticed I really had to pee and when I started to pee.. There was brown stuff in my undies and it kinda looked like dried up blood but I wasn’t sure so I stood up and saw blood all over my legs I was super in shocked but I had to tell someone so I decided to tell my mom but she was at work :/ so I woke up my older sister and told her and she started LAUGHING! She said I got my first period and gave me 1 of her pads and told me to go back to sleep.
It was mothers day and we had the whole family over for lunch. We were sitting outside eating when my grandmother noticed how much i’ve grown. My mum (mom) agreed with her and told her that I’m going through a growth spurt. As all 12 year old’s do, i got up and went to the toilet. I think i stood there for about 3 minutes just staring at my red coloured underwear. I called out my mum and she came in. (luckily i was in my parents bathroom) She quickly took the knickers and went to my room to get me a new pair. She gave me this diper looking thing (pad) and told me how to use it. BEST MOTHERS DAY GIFT EVER! not.
i just got my period this morning! i’m 12. so i woke up and i went to the bathroom, and i was wiping when i saw blood on the toilet paper! i didn’t freak out or anything, (no, really i didn’t! i knew everything about it already) i just finished up in the bathroom then i went to go and find my mom to tell her. she just said “oh okay well keep checking your underwear today and tell me when i get home” so i did and just a couple minutes ago i went to the bathroom again and found more blood! it’s a little weird cause it’s not getting on my underwear or pants.. whatever lol
I got my first period today. I was in my 5th period class and my stomach hurt really bad so i went to the bathroom when i went to the bathroom i did my business and was about to pull my pants up when i noticed blood in the toilet. I am not to personal with my mom…… i still haven’t told her
ok, im 13 (and a half) about 30 minutes ago i went to the restroom and there was black stuff all over my pantyliner and at first i thought it was just weird discharge but then realized it was blood. i didnt flip out-yet i felt like there were butterflies in my stomach. i simply just zoomed to my room and pulled a pad in my backpack in case anything ever happened like that at school. now im here typing this, ok this is like my second time-the first time was 3 years ago and there was barely anything so i was 10.
yep.
I just got mine today and I am 14 and happy because I really don’t have boobs and I hope that comes soon and I am scard. Well I went to the bathroom any did my normal thing and I noticed when I wiped and saw a dark color at fist I was all maybe this is a mistake but then I looked at my underware and I got a mini panic attack(I get panic attack easy cus I was born with a nerve problem) so I just cleaned myself and told my mom all calmly cus I was still in shock and she just gave me a high five and said it is about time, well then I went back to the bathroom cus I forgot to put a pad on an I was confused on the wings but I understand now and also I still didn’t clean my underware yet and going to do that right now.
My first period was today, im 11. I was watching tv and it was exactly 2 mins before children in need was on and i vent to the toilet. I found in my knickers red everywhere, so i wiped myself with blood on the tissue yuck and put some new knickers on. I told mum to come upstairs as i wanted to show her something. I told her and she gave methe tampon thing. Now im happily watching tv with cramps :(
I just got my first period a few days ago and I’m thirteen hahaha I finished watching a movie with my sister and went to the toilet while my dad turned off the tv and I pulled down my pants, saw dark red and blotches on my discharge pad and was like ‘nfejdnenajdj!!’ (Ineligible word) and I didn’t realise my dad finished with the tv and was near the bathroom helping my sister and was like ‘WHATTTT???’ And swung the door open. I, of course, stretched my underwear as far away from me as possible and so when my dad opened it, he saw me, my hand, my underwear, then the bloody pad. All he said was ‘Mars! (My mum, she was playing bejewelled in her room) your daughter has got her period!’ And left. My mum replied ‘okay.’ And so I was left to fend for myself. Well, I was already told by my mum about it and what to do so yeah I changed my pad.Lol hahaha the next day was so funny it was school holidays and my dad woke me up going ‘last night I brought the garbage down and I picked up the plastic bag and my hand met with your pad!’ I started laughing before I realised he wasn’t laughing along and put on a serious face ‘OK daddy. ’ and rolled over laughing with my comical picture of him reaching into a blood covered pad.
I was at my dads house in my aunts room when it happend. now my mom had been out so i started freaking out and messaging people on facebook. My friend was about to bring me pads but luckily i found some in the bathroom fortunately it was only spotting but i still havent told my dad lol
So I was 12 and I went to the bathroom at school towards the end of the day. I pulled down my pants and saw blood. I didn’t actually freak out (no joke) and just shoved a ton of tp in my panties till I got home and used a pad. Except I had no idea how to use one, so I told my mom and she showed me. Why does everyone freak out at that?
I was 11 when i was sitting in class during silent reading andi felt someting wet as i moved to get another book i asked my teacher i could go to the toilet as i pulled down my pants i just saw red stuff and yelled at my friend to get the teacher she ran got the teacher and she gaveme a pad it wal inbarssing cause it was the firt day of year six and i didnt know the teacher that well
I was 10 years old, and my pants felt wet. So I go to the bathroom and LOOK there’s blood in my underwear! I did not know what it was. So I changed my undies and got it over with.
THEN LATER I felt wet again. ok repeat the “feelwetchangeunderwear” sequence a few times.
So I went to good old Mom to see what was happening. She said the Words of Truth and told me to use a pad. So I go to the bathroom again and rip up one of her pink thingies with a pad inside them. But alas, I didn’t really know how to work it and I didn’t tear off the sticky sticker thing.
THE END
Okay so my first period was simple, but a bit different. So it was the day after the party for my 12th birthday. I woke up with a couple of my friends, because I had a sleepover. I realized I felt a little wet, but I didn’t think anything of it. After they all left, I went pee, not even thinking about a period. I pulled my pants down and when I went to wipe I looked down and my underwear was flooded with blood. I freaked out and immediately starting crying. I was crying #1 because I didn’t want a period and #2 because I was about to go to a waterpark with my aunt. I called my mom and told her and she ran to the store and got me pads. I know it’s not the best period story, but whatever. Hope you enjoyed!
I got it on Friday it lasted less then a day I’m only 12. You would think I’m young but I’m the last of my friends kinds wierd ya. Ok so I was at target yes target and I had really bad cramps so mum was like being really slow then I’m like can we go home then I’m like hurry up would you So she had a go at me so awkward then I desided to go sit down thinking it was proberly my period. Cause that morning there was brown thick thick kinds like goo in my pants I thought it was discharge as usual but I had never had coloured discharge so I went to have a shower so ya we wer at target and cramps so I say down bout half a hour later we went home I’m like mum my tummy hurts then she was like maybe you are growing up wierd how she knew what I ment. I went to the loo nothing but discharge then I had to pee so I did but then when I wiped there was blood yay 😁 great 😐 k but I was very very light I told mum and she got all excited it was really awkward. So then she went and got pads ive basically only used the liners it was that light but it hurt like hell at first the nxt day I had to go to my friends and by ten in the morning it stopped I thought it might come back but it didn’t it was Australia Day and we went to the pool I went swimming even though I was scared it might come back but it didn’t still hasn’t don’t think it will till nxt month so ya Im glad I got I now though cus I start high school not tomorrow the nxt day so ya that’s it bye
So I’m 15 and I got my first period last night. I was expecting it anytime now because I’m 15 for christsake. It was about 10 at night and I went to the bathroom because I really had to pee. I pulled my underwear down and freaked out a little because I saw this dried brownish stuff in my underwear. at first I though it was odd colored discharge, so I just finished up and went to my bedroom to change my underwear. I couldn’t help notice how it really looked like dried blood.. I had to be sure so I poured hydrogen peroxide on my underwear and sure enough it started bubbling so I knew it was blood. I’m still unsure how to tell my stepmother so if you have any ideas message me at boredom-or-apathy.tumblr.com
I got my period yesterday.I didnt really think i had got it because while i was wiping, I saw some redish stuff and I thought it was pee or some crap or something. So, just in case, i put a really thin pad on and went to bed. Thank god i did. If i hadnt, there probably would have been dried black shit all over my bed. And that stuff is freaking GROSS. So I still didnt want to believe it, but i went to school with a new pad on, but that didnt help much. Luckily, my school has pads in a container in the bathroom.
When i got home, I was so nervous about telling my mom, so i just said, I think i got my period and my mom was like, okay. WHich surprised me after i read some of the reactions on here.
I am pretty nervous, because i dont want blood or some of that black shit staining any of my stuff. or letting anyone see it.
So ya.
Ok so it was like . 2 am today . I had this brown stuff in my panties all day but I didn’t care Cuz sometimes I shit myself when I fart so I thought it was shit but then I went pee and whipped and had red on the paper so I went in my parents room and said “"mom”“ and started crying . She told me it was my period and gave me pads. So if you look like you shît yourself it’s ur first period .. Oh and if you have white discharge that happens six months before your period I didn’t tell anyone about my discharge and also cramps keep to yourself unless you wanna feel awkward .. Yeah. My mom told me to change the pad every 4 hours .. And always bring some to school with you . Also it’s not shit it your pants . But if it smells you have an infection .yeah we’ll I started on my laptop playing roblox warrior kittens me lake . Lol I thought it was shit -_- smh ..
I was 11 and I got it just before my birthday. I had cramps the day before and I remember the I went to downstairs toilet because I thought I was going to be sick. I think I knew what was going to happen though. The next day I went to the toilet and there was brown all in my underwear. I was sad because I wanted it to be red and pretty. I went out and my mom was paying bills and I told her. She said “Congratulations, it happens to the best of us.” “But it only happens to girls…” I said. “Right.” She looked at me with a DUH face. I always get really bad cramps but I never say anything, it’s not something I’m comfortable speaking about with her. She was going through menopause when I was going through puberty, emotions were running high in the house at that time. My mom asked me if I was pregnant a few weeks ago because I haven’t put tampons on the shopping list. I forgot to mention that I got a menstrual cup, she was completely grossed out.
I just got my period yesterday! (2 am, basically Friday night).
I was having a sleepover with my best friend ever. She was already asleep. I had to pee and I went downstairs. I wiped and there was this orange-ish reddish color on the toilet paper! I texted my mom.
I dance every day, and the next morning I had to perform at my dance studio’s open house! I wore a panty liner (because I had only my period for 12 hours, i wasn’t using tampons lol) but I was nervous my skimpy leotard would slide and show my liner OR i would bleed through to my tights!
LUCKILY none of this happened! the open house went fine and today they cancelled dance so i can wear a normal pad!
I’m REALLY happy i didn’t get my period at school or dance! :)
When I first got my period, I honestly thought I shit my pants. I kept changing my underwear and it kept happening and happening. I never thought I had started my period. I had no cramps or anything. My mom came upstairs and was like, “yo, i’m pretty sure you’ve become a women. Here’s a pad, put it in your undies.” More than anything, I was psyched. My best friend had gotten hers before me and I was mad jelly. And now here I am, telling the internets about it six years later. Not ashamed at all
I had my first period when I was three. I was sat watching teletubbies and drinking strawberry milk when all of a sudden, I started to bleed! My mum bought me some taempons straight away and was like awww this is cute. The end :) :) :) :) :) xxxxx
Ahaha I remember my first period and my first period fake-out. When I was about 10 I had a urinary tract infection so I had a few drop of blood in my underwear… I thought that I had started my period and my childhood was over, etc, so I cried in the bathroom for a few hours until my mom kindly informed me that I hadn’t started yet. When I started for real it was the summer between 6th and 7th grade and I was at my aunt’s house. My best friend was the first person I told and I texted my mom to let her know. I just sort of cleaned up, put on a pad and went about my business and it wasn’t a big deal to me, considering I got all the drama and horror out of my system that first time around xD
I was 11. A few weeks prior my mom bought me “The care and keeping of you.” Which was basically a little book introducing puberty and periods for girls. So I knew what a period was and hoped for mine. Mostly because it was the induction into womanhood, and I’d always identified myself as an adult.
I got invited to a co-ed sleepover with some 4-H kids. I had a huge crush on one of the boys in the group and I was so excited. We played games and ect. So when we went to bed my crush wanted to sleep next to me. Man was I siked, I got all butterflies in the tummy and what not. The next morning when we woke up I was covered in blood. All the kids saw, my crush and all. But they were cool Homeschooled kids and they had sympathy. even the crush was cool with it, surprisingly enough.
Anyway, I didn’t tell my mom for like months and months. and my fraternal grandmother was from a generation of woman who treated their menses like a disease. Unfortunately I had the same outlook until I discovered reusable products and the cup! Now I am very comfortable and confident about my cycle. I take great empowerment in discussing menstruation and taboos with others.
Ps. I love this Tumblr! (:
I got my period for the first time when I was 10.
The night before, I remember that even the smell of dinner was making me feel sick, so my mom let me go up to my room and read instead. The next night, I went to the bathroom, and saw some brownish stuff on the bottom of my underwear, and for some reason I was convinced I was having blood in my poo and this was what it looked like (I had been reading about medicine side effects recently, and one of them was blood in the poo, which I thought sounded AWUL!) I called for my mom, terrified, but she explained that I wasn’t dying, or bleeding from my rear, it was just my period, and that that was probably why I hadn’t been hungry.
I then proceeded to skip a few months, and despite not having any weight gain, and not having any sexual contact, I was terrified that I had somehow become pregnant. I remember feeling relieved when it started again.
At first, my cramps were horrible. To the point of me being curled up in a ball every month on the bathroom floor, wishing I could just puke and get it over with, so that I could finally get on with my life. It was especially bad because I couldn’t figure out how to swallow pills until I was 16 and my girlfriend cornered me in front of a water fountain and wouldn’t let me out until I had taken them, and my teacher was really mean to people who were late. After that, they got progressively better, until I got the pill and barely felt them, and now on the patch I sometimes get cramps, but never enough to puke.
I hate it, simply because no matter what I’ve tried, none of the methods are comfortable…tampons, pads, you name it, they feel uncomfortable to me. But otherwise, I don’t mind it too much,
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I was 9 when my period started and about to start 5th grade. It was a fabulous summer day when I started. I had a horrible stomach cramps for a few hours and my grandmother suggested that I go ride my bicycle to alleviate my cramps. After I rode around for a bit I noticed my cramps were gone so I thought everything was all fine and dandy. I went to pee and my underwear was covered in blood. Of course, being that it was the rad mid-90s, I had seen that awesome video starring Orphan Annie so I knew what was going on. I told my grandmother and I got to wear a huge pair of underwear she had just bought (that was more embarrassing to me then my period for sure). She gave me some water and said that I’ve taken my final steps into womanhood (I was already developed and hairy). When my mom came by to pick me up she flipped out. I remember her crying and saying I was a woman now in that depressed voice moms get but I certainly didn’t feel like a woman. Basically all I wanted to do was call my best friend and tell her then go out and play some more. I never thought my period was gross or weird and I carried around my period kit that my elementary school provided with pride. When people say it’s disgusting and nasty it reiterates that women are still seen as unclean which is obviously wrong. Be proud of your body and your period!
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I didn’t have the greatest first period because I was stuck in school, aged 14 , in Maths. My teacher said I looked “green” and told me to go the medical room. Once I arrived I was told to go home and upon my arrival I realised that I’d finally began my period. All I remember is feeling really sick and unwell during Maths but as soon as I was home, I felt so reassured; it’s my first period, what’s so bad about that? I told my mother when she got got home from work and it was just a really cool thing. No worry, no fear anymore. Just a little cramp which painkillers can help :)
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The first time I got my period I thought I pooped myself. Then my Mom gave me a hug and said “Welcome to womanhood sweetheart”.
- Lauren (sugarbutch)
My parents had just divorced, and there was a restraining order against my mom. I was barely 10, and didn’t really understand what was happening. I guess the stress brought it on early.
Anyway I went to the bathroom one day and noticed a weird brown sludge. I showed it to my dad and asked him what it was. He was totally uncomfortable, but told me that it was my period (because really, that’s all he knew/cared to know) and quickly scampered away to get the most uncomfortable no-name brand of pads that existed.
I feel like I was pretty oblivious due to adult discomfort and my mother’s absence. I was old enough to know in theory what a period was from rudimentary sex-ed, but only through strange abstract diagrams and allusions. There wasn’t any hostility, but there also wasn’t any help.
It was pretty uneventful, especially compared to everything else going on in my life at the time. I was always pretty independent, so I started buying decent menstrual products on my own pretty soon afterwards. (Now I use a mooncup - delightful! GO GET ONE.)
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It was the first of many, of course, but it was much unlike the rest.
I didn’t get The Talk beforehand or afterwards, but I was excited for it to come.
I had my own stash of tampons (to the chagrin of my mother - probably because she came of age when TSS was still a reality) and I was absolutely, completely ready.
When it came, it was quiet and warm and tame and docile. There weren’t any surges of heavy flow or intense emotion or searing pain or anxiety or weird dreams or huge waves of libido crashing over me just beforehand.
It was brownish-red, copper like a shiny new penny, and I welcomed it like a new friend. I felt lucky, blessed, relieved.
My period ended three days later.
I missed it.
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I am fourteen years old, and have always been overwhelmingly well informed on sex, bodily functions and puberty, having grown up with a crass father, who shared his outrageously sexual sense of humor with me from a young age, a mother who disapproved greatly of such a young girl knowing so many adult things, whom I was desperate to displease, and six older cousins who took delight in teaching me everything their was about girly-bits, boy-bits, and the like.
I got my first period last October. I had just gotten home after a two hour drive, during which I had what I believed to be agonising stomach cramps and throbbing backache. I went to the toilet and found a small brown stain in my knickers. Despite my common sense and my profound knowledge of “what-vaginas-do”, it didn’t even occur to me that I had experienced my period.
I was, for two hours (before my mother corrected me) absolutely terrified and convinced I had bladder cancer.
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(TW:Menstruation, Blood, Slight Language)
Okay, so in middle school I was bullied a lot by this one crazy girl. She would pull on me, corner me, rip my sketchbooks, you know. I was 11 and it was December 14 in the seventh grade. Our school had two buildings at the time, the upper school (Middle, High) and lower school (Elementary) buildings. And during lunch this girl was especially ruthless. I remember she had dragged me to the swings and started pestering me about whether or not I was a lesbian because of my short hair. I was on the verge of tears when…
“I think I just wet myself…” I mumbled.
“What?!” She looked at me funny.
“BITCH I THINK I JUST PEED MY PANTS.” I yelled, (something I have never done before), and ran into the lower school building.
I went to check, and lo and behold, a sanguine oasis greeted me.
My period has become very heavy, and has given me anemia, so we aren’t exactly pals. But I’ll never forget the day it gave me the courage to yell at my middle school bully.
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I was twelve years old and it was the end of August. My little brother’s birthday, actually. We went swimming at a lake, stopped at a restaurant to eat after, and didn’t get home until it was really late. When I peeled off my bathing suit, I saw the brownish spot in the crotch and told my mom. She got me a pad and showed me how to use it.
I was really lucky. I already knew about menstruation from school and my mom and that first one was really light. But man, that first year at school was rough- the flow got super heavy and the cramps were awful. I didn’t know how to manage it yet at first and ruined a lot of pants and sweatshirts.
Although I did get pretty creative, one time during school I had bled through my jeans and I used duct tape to write messages on my butt to cover it up.
Oh, and my brother’s turning nineteen soon and still has no idea that his birthday is also the anniversary of my first period.
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I don’t remember the time of year, maybe it was mid-fall. I was in the 7th grade (so middle school in the US) and I had the flu. This was one of those flus where you had it so bad that thinking and breathing were almost impossibilities. I had a fever high enough to fry an egg on my head (as my mother put it).
In school I had just read “Little Women.” You know, the classic novel about a family full of sisters by Louisa May Alcott. So since I was home, and sick, my mother thought it would be good for me to watch the film. So I’m sitting on the beige leather couch, sicker than ever, watching the likes of Winona and Kirsten and Susan etc. and I pause the film so I can go to the bathroom.
I stand up and there’s a large red splotch on the couch and a matching one on the seat of my pants.
Having been prepared for my period to come for months, I quickly ran to the bathroom and dealt with the necessities. I am so thankful that my mother was with me that day or else I may have panicked (being sick). When all was cleaned up we sat back down to finish the film, laughed at the irony of the situation and all was well.
But there’s more… the real kicker. The next day my grandmother was to come over and take care of me. She walked in the door. Took one look at me and said, “Well, now we know you can have children.”
I find my story a bit lighthearted and I’ve heard of and read some pretty awful first times. At the age of twelve, I wasn’t thinking of having children, and I hope that as time progresses the next generation of women will have an easier batch of first times.
That’s all.
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I got my first period when I was 17. I was the last person I knew and I wanted it so badly. So, when I was 16 I started faking that I had my period. I would ask friends to borrow tampons and then put it back in their purses later.
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I was twelve at the time. I remember it being a Saturday. I went to the toilet in the morning and saw brown stains in my knickers. Of course, I had been an avid reader of teen girl magazines since the age of 9, so I knew a lot more about puberty and menstruation than any biology lesson has ever taught me. It never even crossed my mind that period blood would dry and be brown, when I started.
So I changed my knickers in the morning and went to see tutor, as I always did on a Saturday morning. When I returned home, there were more brown stains with a hint of red! For a few seconds, I was confused and assumed that I had somehow managed to injure myself in the groin area. Then I realised that it might actually be my period. My mum kept pads in the bathroom, so I attempted to put one on. Only, as much as I knew about the facts of menstruation, I had never actually learned how to put a pad on! So instead of laying it down lengthways, I put it across my pants. After doing this, I told my sister, who was two years younger than me, what had happened. She was a little mystified because it was obviously something that she didn’t have much experience of!
I remember telling my mum later that day, as we were walking in a shopping centre. I didn’t know how to break it to her, because it seemed like such a huge deal, so I kind of held her arm and said “muuuuuum, I need to tell you something.” I didn’t know what response to expect from her, but what I least expected was her the incredibly matter-of-fact response that I did get. She also said that my dad, of all people, had said to her the day before that I was looking a little pale and perhaps I was starting my period soon. My dad sensed that I was starting my period before my mum did!
After going through all the basics, my mum then proceeded to tell my dad and all of my female relatives that I had started my period. I went to my aunt’s house, the next day, and sat through stories of when my mother, my aunt and my cousin had all started their periods. My mum also rued the fact that I had started at 12. She had apparently started at 14 and regretted the fact that I would have to go through the regular pains every month, so soon.
Luckily, my periods are something that I’ve generally been fine with. I just wish that other issues relating to my vagina were so easy to discuss with my mum! Only recently, she felt the contraceptive rod in my arm and I had to fabricate an awful lie about what it was. I guess it’s her old-fashioned opinions which are to blame for why I had to lie about that, rather than my responsible attitude towards babies!
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It was August, the summer before 7th grade. I was staying at my great grandmas house while my mom was at work. All day my stomach had been hurting and I only had one thought, OH GOD MY APPENDIX. All day I curled up watching tv thinking I was going to die. Eventually I went to the bathroom, and there it was. Blood. I couldn’t have been more horrified. I felt like my childhood was over so I layed on the bathroom floor crying. Between sobs I made the embarassing call to my mom at work who drove right over to deliver reinforcements. For years I hated my period and felt like a gross person, but just recently something has changed. Periods are a beautiful thing, life creating beauty from the earth. It wasn’t the end of my childhood, just the beginning of my life as a child, who bleeds every month. :)
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friendlyneighborhoodcurmudgeon:
What is a Diva Cup? It is a small silicone cup that you can insert into your vagina to catch menstruation blood. It is reusable and easily cleaned. So basically it’s like a tampon but so much better. It does take some getting used to (like a tampon does) and if you put it in incorrectly it can be…
I was 10 I think. I was a the beauty shop, getting my hair pressed. I was wearing my favorite pink sweatsuit. I went to the bathroom and I saw it and my first thought was Damn!
My mom had told me all about it. I was ready. I knew it was gonna happen, but I was pissed none the less.
I don’t think I told her about it at first. But when she did find out, probably the next day, she was confused. She asked me why I didn’t tell her. I lied and said I didn’t know what it was. I don’t know why I lied.
Amazingly she didn’t call me on my bullshit. She knew she had told me about it a hundred times. She simply took me to the store and bought me some pads. And when I complained about their hugeness, she told me about having periods in 1963 and how the pads had their very on harness system and how much that sucked. I stopped complaining.
She also told me her story, about being sent home from school when she was about my age and telling my great-grandmother who lived with my mom and my Granny. My great-granny did the only thing that made sense to her, considering her period years were long gone. She got a towel and some safety pins and fashioned a diaper for my mom until my Granny got home from work.
We laughed and laughed at that and my mom reminded me how lucky I was.
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Hey! Thanks so much, we agree periods shouldn’t something looked down upon and people who have their first period should feel comfortable knowing it’s natural.
Trigger warnings are obligatory, even if it’s nothing bloody or gruesome because some people might have had a horrible first period experience and your story might trigger them. Just a precaution!
The first time I got my period, I was in eighth grade. There was nothing particularly exciting going on that day, except that it was a weekend. I remember going to the bathroom to pee, and pulled down my undies. I freaked out when I saw brownish-copper stains, thinking about how angry my mom would be at the fact that I’d ruined a perfect pair of underwear. Stealthily (at least I thought I was being stealthy), I hid the stained panties, not wanting to get rid of them since I didn’t have many other pairs. The copper stains kept appearing, and I had no idea what to do. I mean, I knew what menstrual periods were, and that I would get one eventually (Thank you, mum and gran), but I didn’t know that it would look brown when the bleeding started. This continued for three days, and I started freaking out. My dad was more awkward around this sort of stuff than I was, so I called my friend Cynthia (she lived four houses down and was a year older than me). She told me that it was normal, and that I was starting my period. So she walked down the street to my house, pads in hand, and while handing me the pads through a small crack in the door, she told me “now, put one of these on like your mom showed you before,” my mom had thought that I would start my period in fourth grade, because both she and my gran were early bloomers, “and remember to drink WAY more water in the next week. Welcome to womanhood."
So yeah, not very eventful, but there it was.
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I was 12 years old and I still remember the date, April 16th, three days after my first concert. I was at my best friend’s house up the street scooter-ing and telling her about the concert, as we shared the same favorite band. I started feeling crampy in my lower abdomen, and honestly I thought I was going to have the worst diarrhea of my life (oh my) and after a few minutes I told her I felt sick (I did, I started feeling feverish), so I went on home. I sat on the toilet when I got there and was horrified at the large brown stain in my underwear (I honestly thought I crapped myself), so I finished going to the bathroom, (and having not crapped), I wiped and saw blood and finally understood what happened. I luckily learned what a period was around seven years of age, which I think was great parenting from my mom. I called my mom into the bathroom, since I couldn’t really get up to do anything, so she got me some supplies (pads) and some clean undies. I used pads for a year and despised them (wet and nasty) and therefore my period to an extent (the day I found tampons, yessss, and moreso, the diva cup, hallelujah). I was also very skinny so my period was light and not too painful (but as time went on, I got heavier and it got worse, sigh) But I had mixed emotions getting my first period… I was (am) genderqueer and knew it at the time (not the phrase, just the feeling), and I had no interest in becoming more womanly (like some friends who got their period felt), it was just a nuisance. But being depressed back then, my period made me feel euphoric (and irritable if pushed), so I enjoyed the break from mental hell. This pattern continues. But overall, my period isn’t too bad. Sometimes it sucks when I’m in more masculine mode, sometimes it makes me too upbeat and erratic, sometimes it hurts a lot, but I appreciate my period because having a vag rules. I also have done menstrual art, aww yeah.
Well, that went off track.
Overall, I’d say that first period was a pretty lucky day and place to get my period, and it wasn’t a really bad experience. It just was. It’s just life.
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