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Community Conversation => Transsexual talk => Female to male transsexual talk (FTM) => Topic started by: rottingteeth on May 03, 2009, 03:26:02 PM

Title: this is kindof gross
Post by: rottingteeth on May 03, 2009, 03:26:02 PM
but i thought it was kindof funny

earlier today after no.2 i went to wipe and saw blood everywhere. i started to seriously freak out because i thought i was bleeding profusly from the anus or something...

until i realised it was just my period, HAHA.

i didn't mean to gross anyone out, haha, sorry, but it just shows how much i ignore my period (or "monthly red death" as someone on here put it). every time my period ends it's like i believe it's the last one, like it's going to run away and never come back. i just completely ignore it, it's like i choose to believe it doesn't exist. because i don't want it to, i'm not a woman and so i shouldn't have it.

i guess i feel like if i start keeping track of it, i'll be more like a woman, or something. i'm just stubborn about it. i guess i just wanted to know if anyone else has this attitude, or if i'm just ridiculously spiteful, to my own inconvenience :\
Title: Re: this is kindof gross
Post by: RebeccaFog on May 03, 2009, 07:11:02 PM

that is gross, but funny too.
Title: Re: this is kindof gross
Post by: Silver on May 03, 2009, 11:18:58 PM
I don't keep track of 'em either. It's rather unmanly to have a "period calender" or whatever bull they use.

Must've been a bit of a relief (Not going to the ER is cause for celebration I think.)

SilverFang
Title: Re: this is kindof gross
Post by: Luc on May 03, 2009, 11:52:20 PM
Yes, it's totally disgusting.

Not, however, as disgusting as the thought that women actually keep track of their periods. Only reason I can imagine to do that would be if you were trying to get pregnant. Otherwise... get a life!

SD
Title: Re: this is kindof gross
Post by: kestin on May 03, 2009, 11:59:37 PM
They keep track so they aren't left unprepared for when it should start each month *shrugs* sounds pretty logical... I was just too lazy to do it lol also if something is going wrong down there, period irregularity is usually a sign.
Title: Re: this is kindof gross
Post by: perfectisolation on May 04, 2009, 12:00:59 AM
Never kept track of my periods. I don't even remember what month the last time I had one was...
Title: Re: this is kindof gross
Post by: TamTam on May 04, 2009, 12:10:43 AM
We also do it because if there's an interruption in the normal schedule, we can detect it and pay attention to make sure it isn't a disease or cancer behind the irregularity.  If I didn't keep track I wouldn't know when to expect it or when to worry that it was late.  Or when to bring it to a doctor's attention.
Title: Re: this is kindof gross
Post by: Vancha on May 04, 2009, 03:53:05 AM
Eeuurgh, the idea just gives me the shakes.
I don't think I'd be able to keep track of a menstrual cycle, no less accept that it exists.  I'm not squeamish by any means, but that is just crossing the line for me.

In any case, I am just as surprised as you are when it happens.  And thoroughly disgusted with myself.

Would also like to point out that from the beginning, mine have never been regular.  Even years later, I'll still miss a month, regularly.  I think my body knows something's off.
Title: Re: this is kindof gross
Post by: Ender on May 04, 2009, 02:20:07 PM
Yeah, I did that too--refused to keep track of things.  I didn't want to give more thought to what was going on than necessary.  As for being caught unawares by not keeping track--it didn't matter.  I didn't have to mark a calendar to know that things were completely irregular anyways.