random clicky: your first period

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Suuuuuper busy at work today.  

[mrslefty]

Day of a gymnastics meet too...sucked.

[madDawg228]

I got it a week after my 6th grade class went to Camp Orkila (did anyone else do this?). I was so worried that I was going to get my period when I was at camp, I brought a TON of really thick pads with me.

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Jul 30, 2014 10:34:45 GMT -5 madDawg228 said:

I got it a week after my 6th grade class went to Camp Orkila (did anyone else do this?). I was so worried that I was going to get my period when I was at camp, I brought a TON of really thick pads with me.

I went to camp, but a different camp. I can't remember what it was called now. 

My H went to Camp Orkila for 6th grade camp though. 

[mrslefty]

Jul 30, 2014 10:34:45 GMT -5 madDawg228 said:

I got it a week after my 6th grade class went to Camp Orkila (did anyone else do this?). I was so worried that I was going to get my period when I was at camp, I brought a TON of really thick pads with me.

We went to camp waskowitz.  I remember being afraid of that too lol. 

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I started mine right before my freshman year of high school...

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Mine started after a full day of the most excruciating abdomen pain I had ever had. I didn't know what was wrong and my Dad was being mean and grumpy at me for having to stay home with me and thought I was overacting. (Except, I was never the kid who tried to get out of going to school!). I was CRYING in pain Poor baby IK.

[toratoratori]

I got mine the night of a Wallflowers / Counting Crows concert. Yeah, I was SUPER cool.

[dana86]

Jul 30, 2014 10:34:45 GMT -5 madDawg228 said:

I got it a week after my 6th grade class went to Camp Orkila (did anyone else do this?). I was so worried that I was going to get my period when I was at camp, I brought a TON of really thick pads with me.

I got my first one the month before camp but it was small and mostly just really crampy. Well I forgot and got my first real bad one AT CAMP! It was absolutely horrible. I completely forgot to bring anything and it was just a bloody nightmare. 

[FrozenSunshine]

I had just turned 9. It was summer vacation but I thought I was dying because I had no idea about periods. They didn't teach sex ed at that age.

[toratoratori]

Jul 30, 2014 21:50:27 GMT -5 FrozenSunshine said:

I had just turned 9. It was summer vacation but I thought I was dying because I had no idea about periods. They didn't teach sex ed at that age.

That's horrifying! My mom gave me my sex talk at 9, and then we did sex ed in fifth grade, so I felt prepared when it finally happened. But without all that? I would have been super scared.

[madDawg228]

Jul 31, 2014 11:44:15 GMT -5 kooshball said:

I went to Camp Orkila many times. I HATED IT.

But did you get your first period there?  That would have been my worst nightmare as a 12 yr old girl.

[Tiff]

OH @sfgal530, I'd go to Gin Blossoms in a heartbeat!

I started mine when I was 12...and my BFF at the time got so mad. She was jealous that I started it before her. Looking back now, it's so funny.

[catbus]

Jul 30, 2014 10:47:09 GMT -5 mrslefty said:

Jul 30, 2014 10:34:45 GMT -5 madDawg228 said:

I got it a week after my 6th grade class went to Camp Orkila (did anyone else do this?). I was so worried that I was going to get my period when I was at camp, I brought a TON of really thick pads with me.

We went to camp waskowitz.  I remember being afraid of that too lol. 

We went to Waskowitz, too. B2! B2! January '95--but I got my first period in July '95. I was 11.5. 

[mrslefty]

Aug 1, 2014 10:29:25 GMT -5 catbus said:

Jul 30, 2014 10:47:09 GMT -5 mrslefty said:

We went to camp waskowitz.  I remember being afraid of that too lol. 

We went to Waskowitz, too. B2! B2! January '95--but I got my first period in July '95. I was 11.5. 

B4!! we went in the spring of 97 I think.  God were the 90s really that long ago?

[BlackCanary]

12, in 7th grade.