Tiffani D. • Pennsylvania • 24
It was the summer before 5th grade and no other girls had gotten their period yet. I was staying at my grandmother's and woke up from a nap to what felt like pee in my underwear. Embarrassed, I went to the bathroom and pulled down my pants and it was covered in reddish brown liquid. I swore I just had a wet fart, so I changed my underwear and threw the old ones away.
A few hours later I had the same sensation, and the same liquid was on my new pair of underwear. I didn't know what was happening to me, I thought I was peeing out poop. I hid in my grandmother's bathroom until my mom picked me up and told me that I was simply becoming a woman...