Urgh, people actually celebrate this?

[Jeh]

I was in a treatment centre for anorexia a few years ago, and one of the symptoms of anorexia is that you lose your period. They actually celebrated every time one of the girls got their period back. Nice thought, and all of the girls there were cis except for me, and I'm sure it was special to them to celebrate a sign that their health was returning, but I did NOT want to celebrate the return of mine.

I was so glad that mine stopped as soon as I started T. I had a dream that it came back last night, eugh, scary.

[jmaxley]

Sorry, I'm coming out of a black one and I need to keep going.

((((Cindy))))

[Joelene9]

  Celebrating periods!  It was different in my grandmother's day, her generation born 1900.  There was a class I was in back in 1970, called "Boys Social Problems", a one-semester easy credit.  There was a film we saw about the emotional problems with menstruation.  One was an old lady reminiscing about her first period and she went to her mother about it.  Her mother didn't want anything to do to educate her about it.  She had to learn to deal with it from her cousin.  That still hurt her to her old age.  That class I was in was quite progressive for that time.  Even the different birth control products and methods were discussed.  My teacher was a Jew married to a Lutheran and he also discussed the interfaith marriages and the intercultural ones as well.  One of the better classes I attended. 
  Joelene