Meg H • California • 32
Soooo I was an older period haver. I was halfway through 8th grade by the time I got mine. I had fellow athletes tell me, "you're so lucky you haven't gotten yours yet." But in middle school, all you want is to be just like everyone else.
When it came, I had just finished a basketball game. It was around January 6th, probably the first game back after the Millennium. I went the bathroom at St. Joseph's Elementary School. It was brown.
I didn't think I had pooped myself as other bleeders have shared. I don't think I totally knew what it was either. I think the cramping that came later was more of an indicator.
I was the first of three girls in my family. We are Irish Catholic and I had little understanding of my period. My mom showed me how to use a pad and I was good to go! It wouldn't be until I started this podcast with my friends at the tender age of 31 that I fully understood the physics of a period.
