#if you expected to start menstruating but never did you're still in the target audience of this poll btw | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

ur-stepdad · 6 months ago

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a bit of context if you're not quite sure how to answer:

the girls in the book Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret would fall into the "very positive" category - they were excited to get their periods and would speak openly with their friends about puberty

a child who obsessed over a fear of menstruation, felt dread when they thought about it, or was deeply in denial about this aspect of puberty, would fall on the "very negative" end

note: anyone being judgmental or hateful/bullying on this post will be blocked (ie. transphobia, disrespect toward intersex people, biological essentialism, etc.)

#if you expected to start menstruating but never did you're still in the target audience of this poll btw #feel free to elaborate in tags i'm very interested in others' childhood experiences and how they may interact with other factors #periods #menstruation #if i see any truscum or terf shit you're gone. everyone be normal to each other even just for this one post i beg you #i wanted to make this post bc i was SO scared of starting my period and i obsessively thought about it for at least 2-3 years #it caused me a lot of distress. i've always had high anxiety and i'm trans so it's not that surprising #but when i judy blume the attitude i was seeing was sooo different from my own experience #i didn't talk to my friends about it at all either. not until we were like late teens was it discussed at all in my circle #poll

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