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I am 24 and haven't even had my period for 10 years yet. YUP. I was a late bloomer. I finally got it my junior year of high school when I was 17.
I asked my friend how to use a tampon and never looked back. My mom told me my little sister had had hers for years before me... So that's cool.
It was 3 days before school let out for summer break in 6th grade. I think it was 3rd period maybe, right before lunch. That week, for some reason, we were building bird houses as a "gift" to the school. We were put into groups of 4 and had to work together to follow the instructions on how to build this thing, and then we were going to paint them. I don't remember why, but I snapped at one of my team members about something and I remember thinking, woah - where did that come from?? I was seriously pissed off.
When the bell rang I stopped in the girls room before heading to the cafeteria for lunch. I knew the second I pulled my underwear down and saw the dreaded brown/red spot what was happening. The two month health unit we had to sit through in 5th grade actually paid off. And thanks to my teacher at the time, for giving us the advise to keep a pad in our backpacks just in case, I was prepared!
I remember feeling like I was wearing a diaper and that EVERYONE would be able to tell. I was of course too embarrassed to tell my mom, so I didn't for 2 days. She found out when my genius plan of dumping a used pad in her bathroom trashcan, thinking she would just assume it was hers, backfired. It never occurred to me she wasn't on hers too!
So my mom can’t keep a secret to save her life. She is also always prepared. She put pads under the sink in my bathroom like 5 years before I got my first period. So when I got it I just used the pads that were already there and decided not to tell her because I didn’t want the entire neighborhood to know I was finally “a woman.”
I ended up telling her when we got into a fight about her telling a friend something I didn’t want spread around and yelled at her “this is why I didn’t tell you I got my period last week! You can’t keep anything to yourself!”
