omg so when I got my first period, I thought i had some sort of cancer! I think that girls generally get a dark kind of uterus lining discharge, and when I got that, I was legitimately SO terrified… I was too embarrassed to tell my mum (I thought it was a result of masturbation) and so I just left it… and a day or two later, I started bleeding! For a second I thought it was rectal bleeding and I became very concerned, but then it hit me: I was a woman!!! Or womyn, as it may be.