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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2012-11-07 06:10 pm

[ SECRET POST #2136 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2136 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Psych]


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03.
[Karl Urban]


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04.
[pokemon: best wishes]


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[Bleach]


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06.
[Elementary/X-Files]


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07.
[Fievel Goes West]


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08.
[Potap & Nastya Kamenskih]


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[Smallville]


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[Fairy Tail]


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11.
[The Lorax]


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12.
[Robot Chicken]


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13.
[Downton Abbey]


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14.
[Pauly Perette]


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15.
[TVXQ]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 032 secrets from Secret Submission Post #305.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Re: Your First Period (Possibly TMI)

(Anonymous) 2012-11-08 05:25 am (UTC)(link)
I had just turned 14. I told my mom and it was no big deal and she gave me a pad, although the pads she used to buy were like cotton bricks. It was several years before I started choosing my own pads and made the welcome discovery that thinner pads exist.

My first period may have been easy, but it took me YEARS to get a handle on the whole process. One problem: I really didn't understand that a lot of the generic information on periods is really just generalizations and not a set of iron-clad rules that everyone's bodies follow. While I'd gotten information about menstruation through school and Girl Scouts, none of my friends had ever confided in me about their experiences and I have no older siblings or cousins, so I was lacking the kind of anecdotes that would clue me in to the fact that there's some variation inherent in the system.

For example, I always heard that a menstrual cycle lasts 28 days, but I never started my next period 28 days after the last one. I used to think I was really irregular because of this. Eventually (YEARS LATER) I realized that I am actually pretty regular, I just have a somewhat longer cycle than "normal." Not once did anyone tell me this was a possibility and I'm still a little resentful about it.