Redditors , what was your reaction when you first got your periods ?

I was on vacation with my family. I woke up in the morning and went to pee, then I saw the carnage in my underwear and thought I was dying for the first 30 seconds or so. Then I thought, “Oh shit, I’ll bet I probably bled all over the sheets.” Which I did, of course. My mom was extremely pissed at me. I can still picture her across the room angrily telling my dad what happened.

I’m now 42 and I still get a case of the asschaps when I see something about mom’s making a big special day out of their daughter entering womanhood.

To clarify, my mom is incredible and the greatest woman I’ve ever known. She handled this one situation poorly. She was born in the 1930s, raised in an orphanage, and didn’t have a motherly influence.

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