First Period
I remember when I got my period for the first time —
and isn’t that a strange way to phrase it? “got my period” sounds like it’s a cool thing, like “got my first bike” or “got to drive a car for the first time” — but really, getting a period is not a cool/fun/desirable thing to get as far as I’m concerned
— and the Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad DayTM that ensued.
I was 11 years old, in the sixth grade. And – luckily, I suppose – I had ‘started’ early in the morning, so it’s not something that surprised me in the middle of a math lesson or a geography report; instead, it just… blobbed(?), I guess… quite unexpectedly onto my underwear when I sat up to get out of bed in the morning.
I wasn’t terribly bothered by it.
Or… Let me rephrase:
When the initial blobbing occurred, it was something I knew enough about that it didn’t alarm me.
Like, my mom — she tried, right? (though really, she failed miserably) — to give me some sort of… I dunno, education(?)… about How Girls Become WomenTM so I’d know what to expect and supposedly be fine with the whole bleedingoutmycrotch thing. And I was. Kinda.
I mean: I was fine in that I understood the biologics of the situation.
I do NOT mean: I was fine.
Because I was BLEEDING.
Frickin’ EVERYWHERE.
And lemme tell ya: the honkin’ huge pads that were required in those days1 were like wearing a diaper. Plus, the wetness of it. Like, smeary wetness between the diaper and the skin.
Just…
*shudder*
So yeah. It was kinda awful.
Bloody fucking awful, as a matter of fact.
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