I was only 9 and very much not prepared.
My work's illegal, but at least it's honest.
Mal ,'Shindig'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
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sj - Sep 14, 2009 7:10:45 pm PDT #23064 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
meara - Sep 14, 2009 7:11:24 pm PDT #23065 of 30000
Mine also happened at camp, and for some reason (even though it was...GIRL SCOUT camp) I was mad embarrassed and didn't want to have to make a special trip to the nurse and get supplies and whatnot, and it was all awkward and awful.
Of course, at home, somehow we tried to avoid talking about all these things, and the protocol was to steal products like those and shaving supplies and whatnot from my mother's bathroom, and hope she had some. And hope she'd notice when she was low and go buy more. Perhaps not the best plan.
Topic!Cindy - Sep 14, 2009 7:12:04 pm PDT #23066 of 30000
What is even happening?
David, Scott laughed out loud at your E story.
Vortex, I do not know this famous napkin story.
erika, my then BFF was 14. We had the same birthday (my milestone came on my 12th birthday). She was so relieved to be a part of it, and by then, the rest of us were thinking what a pain it was.
-t, heh. Other word nerd.
eta...
sj -- you were 9? Oh you poor little baby.
Pix - Sep 14, 2009 7:14:37 pm PDT #23067 of 30000
The status is NOT quo.
I was almost 17 and only got it because it was medically induced. Oh, malfunctioning girly parts. How you mocked me.
§ ita § - Sep 14, 2009 7:16:17 pm PDT #23068 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I was way old, and it was the week before my appointment with a developmental specialist, because I really was that old. I told my mother right quick, so we could get that embarassing thing off my calendar.
My body was very good period-wise to me for the first while, but over the past ten years ago, I have achieved unenviable near-normalcy.
Cass - Sep 14, 2009 7:16:40 pm PDT #23069 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
And yet? I'm still thinking it's always sudden.
Yeah. Mine were in reverse order. I was really and truly board flat until my junior year and then bam! sudden boobs from the Boob Fairy.
JZ - Sep 14, 2009 7:16:48 pm PDT #23070 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
erika, I was 14 too. By which time everyone around me had long got past the At Last I'm A Woman stage and slid right into bitching about it, so the only real thrill (aside from the commemorative plate) was the confirmation that all my plumbing was relatively normal. Woo hoo?
Hil R. - Sep 14, 2009 7:16:53 pm PDT #23071 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I was almost 12. It was actually the second year that my mom had packed supplies in with my camp stuff, just in case.
erikaj - Sep 14, 2009 7:18:33 pm PDT #23072 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
Then I started having problems with it so I was the first in my circle to get a pelvic...my rites of passage? Suck out loud. But then, my BFF got a period cake from her hippie mom so it could be worse.ETA: Yeah, JZ, did not need another way to be a freak, but it wasn't an event by then.
Laga - Sep 14, 2009 7:18:47 pm PDT #23073 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
my family was pretty blase about the whole becoming a woman thing. Godot still has my boobs.