Y’all had sex ed? My class just played kickball instead because the guest speaker bailed and the actual teachers didn’t wanna teach us.
The most I got from school was: “hey, you have female reproductive organs! Here’s the cheapest maxi-pad! You’ll need it for when you start bleeding! That’s a totally normal thing btw!”
The thing is, I have endometriosis and a heart condition. I didn’t realize that the amount of blood loss I went through on a monthly basis was too much. Nobody ever told me that bleeding until you experience symptoms of bad blood loss isn’t normal. I also kept all the abnormal pain to myself until I was 23.