Ladies, how old were you when you got your first period?
I was 10 when I started mine in 1996. I knew about a period from the "puberty lesson" the school nurse had given us in 4th grade, but I still freaked out. I was sure I had cancer and spent the next day in my room crying because I knew I was going to die. My parents eventually calmed me down and assured me all was well. To this day, neither of my them has ever talked to me again about periods, sex, maturation, etc.
06/03/2011
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I was 10 and it was in the 2000s
Originally posted by
P'Gell
It is believed that as nutrition increases, and some say more hormones from cattle and other animals enter out food system, girls are experiencing menarche (first menstruation) much earlier than in the past. The Victorian woman usually experienced
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It is believed that as nutrition increases, and some say more hormones from cattle and other animals enter out food system, girls are experiencing menarche (first menstruation) much earlier than in the past. The Victorian woman usually experienced her first "Curse" at about 16, now the average is about 11 or 12. In developing countries, the average is much older than in Post Industrial countries like the USA and most of Europe, Australia and parts of South America.
How old were you, and just for seeing if age has decreased over time, what decade was it?
Please answer ONE age and ONE decade.
Thank you
How old were you, and just for seeing if age has decreased over time, what decade was it?
Please answer ONE age and ONE decade.
Thank you
06/13/2011
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Mine was irregular as well. I had my first one in sixth grade and second in seventh grade and was having them every few months in high school, well they're still not regular actually.
Originally posted by
MJ1337
I was 9 years old when I had my first.. I'm super irregular though, didn't have anohter one until I was 12 or 13..
07/03/2011
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Girls in my family tend to start early, but go through very early menopause. One cousin of mine actually had her "change of life" at 31. Yikes.
Originally posted by
P'Gell
It is believed that as nutrition increases, and some say more hormones from cattle and other animals enter out food system, girls are experiencing menarche (first menstruation) much earlier than in the past. The Victorian woman usually experienced
...
It is believed that as nutrition increases, and some say more hormones from cattle and other animals enter out food system, girls are experiencing menarche (first menstruation) much earlier than in the past. The Victorian woman usually experienced her first "Curse" at about 16, now the average is about 11 or 12. In developing countries, the average is much older than in Post Industrial countries like the USA and most of Europe, Australia and parts of South America.
How old were you, and just for seeing if age has decreased over time, what decade was it?
Please answer ONE age and ONE decade.
Thank you
How old were you, and just for seeing if age has decreased over time, what decade was it?
Please answer ONE age and ONE decade.
Thank you
07/03/2011
i remember lying about getting mine already at age 12 during a slumber party. all my girlfriends had already started theirs and i felt out of place.
when i finally did get it at age 13 i was embarrassed again that it had come so late.
i do remember being about 10 and riding a bike and getting blood on my underwear from labia being squished and crying, so distraught, to my mother that i thought i'd started my period. i was horrified.
and relieved, and horrified again, when she told me it wasn't. such a strange stage.
when i finally did get it at age 13 i was embarrassed again that it had come so late.
i do remember being about 10 and riding a bike and getting blood on my underwear from labia being squished and crying, so distraught, to my mother that i thought i'd started my period. i was horrified.
and relieved, and horrified again, when she told me it wasn't. such a strange stage.
07/06/2011
I was 8 1/2 and that would have been 1993. I knew about it before it happened. Funnily enough, mine started at a pizza place. While in the car on the way home I announced it. My dad said, "What'd you do, rub pizza sauce in your underwear?"
It was embarrassing being in elementary school. There weren't any garbage cans in the bathrooms, so of course girls always asked me what I was doing. For the most part they didn't tease me.
What was more embarrassing was when I needed to change my pad, and so I asked to be excused to the restroom, and a teacher wouldn't want to let me go. I whisper to them the reason why, and they don't believe me. So there were times I came home with bloody underwear/clothes and my parents complained and my teachers would get in trouble for not letting me leave. (Not like I took advantage of it.)
I remember one time at a sleepover I was having a period, and when the girls found out, they were ewww at first, then several of them requested to see a bloody pad before I threw it away. Of course I was like O_0, but I acquiesced. They looked at it only thankfully.
It was embarrassing being in elementary school. There weren't any garbage cans in the bathrooms, so of course girls always asked me what I was doing. For the most part they didn't tease me.
What was more embarrassing was when I needed to change my pad, and so I asked to be excused to the restroom, and a teacher wouldn't want to let me go. I whisper to them the reason why, and they don't believe me. So there were times I came home with bloody underwear/clothes and my parents complained and my teachers would get in trouble for not letting me leave. (Not like I took advantage of it.)
I remember one time at a sleepover I was having a period, and when the girls found out, they were ewww at first, then several of them requested to see a bloody pad before I threw it away. Of course I was like O_0, but I acquiesced. They looked at it only thankfully.
07/22/2011
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it seems you get younger and younger
Originally posted by
P'Gell
It is believed that as nutrition increases, and some say more hormones from cattle and other animals enter out food system, girls are experiencing menarche (first menstruation) much earlier than in the past. The Victorian woman usually experienced
...
It is believed that as nutrition increases, and some say more hormones from cattle and other animals enter out food system, girls are experiencing menarche (first menstruation) much earlier than in the past. The Victorian woman usually experienced her first "Curse" at about 16, now the average is about 11 or 12. In developing countries, the average is much older than in Post Industrial countries like the USA and most of Europe, Australia and parts of South America.
How old were you, and just for seeing if age has decreased over time, what decade was it?
Please answer ONE age and ONE decade.
Thank you
How old were you, and just for seeing if age has decreased over time, what decade was it?
Please answer ONE age and ONE decade.
Thank you
07/24/2011
