Rose H • West Sussex, UK • 30
I was 16 years old. It was a Sunday morning and I had massively overslept. I woke up from such a deep sleep. I felt SO groggy. I looked at the time - it was MIDDAY! As I got up from my bunk bed, I looked down at the mattress and there was the biggest circle of bright red blood I had ever seen. It must have been about 30cm in diameter. I shouted downstairs to my mum straight away, “I think I’ve started my period!”
I was crying because I felt so rough and groggy as well. She was on the phone with my aunty and shouted in the phone, “Oh my god, Rose has just started her period! She’s become a woman!" And then she congratulated me. I did not feel like I had won anything except for a lifetime sentence of adult nappies. But then I discovered tampons a few days later and I never gave it a second thought!
