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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