I have a question for all the female users on this site
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Ghostwriter14 — 10 years ago(September 19, 2015 07:11 AM)
Alisonparkerhanson: So ironic, I have Turners, too, and had mine at 16 (with the help of hormone replacement therapy)
Really Alison? Did you know anything about it before you were diagnosed? I didn't. I had never even heard of it. And then later on, whenever I went to a new doctor, My mom and I had to explain it to them, which got real old, real fast. It wasn't until I moved to where I currently live that a doctor even knew what Turner's. was.
Truck or Squad. What side are you on? -
SayNoToRemakes — 11 years ago(March 13, 2015 09:59 AM)
Back then we didn't have the Internet to tell us these things, and they didn't advertise feminine hygeine products on TV. My mother gave me a confusing explanation about it when I was 9 that made no sense. Then in the 5th and 6th grades, the boys left the classroom and we watched confusing films about the subject. I made sure to explain it clearly to my daughter. Some people (like my mother) are just so uncomfortable talking about this they do a terrible job explaining it.
There are probably still girls who don't understand or even know about the process because they have only a dad or a prudish mother.
Does anyone know if they still show the films in school? Back then we didn't need parental approval to watch them, but I suspect they do now. -
Adwalt21 — 11 years ago(December 04, 2014 03:29 PM)
I started on Christmas eve when I was 7. I am now 24. My mom told me all about it when I was probably 6 because she also started at 7. I was excited and she freaked. My mom on the other hand started at a family reunion where she had no prior knowledge of a period so she thought she was dying. My aunt had to give her the talk.
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lwangels0 — 10 years ago(July 20, 2015 01:57 AM)
7? Wow you poor thing, you must have been terrified.
I had just turned 14 when I started mine and it wasnt really a big deal then because I was kind of late in comparison to a lot of other girls, I had been expecting it for ages, so when it came I just told my mum and that was it really. -
tmaj48 — 10 years ago(September 07, 2015 07:07 AM)
Plot hole: For someone who spent so much time going to the doctor and learning about all the possible medical conditions she could have, how could Vada be totally unaware of menstruation?
I'm just a year or so younger than Vada would be, and although my mother never
gave me any kind of "talk," she didn't really have to, since by the early 1970s,
our school was willing and eager to give special health class sessions to the girls (while the boys were sent outside to play kickball) which focused on the wonderful, magical miracle that was about to happen to us. We watched movies in
which teenage girls discussed how much fun it was to menstruate, while their boyfriends hugged them and marveled, almost enviously, at how their girlfriends were experiencing this beautiful event. We 10-year-old girls knew enough to be a little puzzled
by that: "Wait, those girls aren't a little bit embarrassed to tell their boyfriends that they're having theirumperiods?!" one girl wondered out loud. She was quickly shushed by the teacher: "Of course not! It's nothing embarrassing.
It's a BEAUTIFUL THING!!" We were given bright, pastel-colored pamphlets entitled
"Growing Up and Liking It," which consisted of an epistolary story of three pubescent girls who were pen pals and wrote about all the fun things that were
going on in their livesmostly about getting their first periods and all the fun
sanitary accessories they could now buy, use, and carry around to show off to their friends.
After being sold on this wonderful thing that was going to happen, why would we afraid when it actually happened? We all couldn't wait for it to start. When it finally did for me, when I was 13, I was more impressed than anything else.
I just shyly bragged to my mother about it, and that was it.
It took me about three more months of experiencing this magical event, however, to realize that I'd been had. Currently, I'm only experiencing the
magic about two or three times a year, and I'm anticipating the day when there's
no more magic. I still have the "Growing Up and Liking It" pamphlet, though. I'm
thinking about writing a sequel: "Growing Old and Good Riddance."
I'm not crying, you fool, I'm laughing!
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holatKolnoa — 8 years ago(August 03, 2017 01:29 AM)
tmaj, I found Growning Up & Liking It online. Someone scanned the entire thing. Hilarious! The booklet confused me: It said you menstruate from about age 12 'til 45-55, and that it's fine to date during your period. Only I missed the part that it's monthly, i.e, I thought you bled continuously for 30+ years!
When you think of garbage, think of Hakeem!
Folks, calm down! This is not the last chopper outta Saigon! -
Aph the cat whisperer — 8 months ago(July 19, 2025 08:55 PM)
When I got my first period ever I was at school and thought I shat myself and I was beyond confused sitting on the toilet for a good 5-10 mins wondering wtf had happened before I realized I had infact got my period.
.. "Why didn't you tell me mamma?"