SUBMITTED STORY
March 30, 2023
I started my period at age 10, in primary school. My mum had died 5 months earlier and I was being raised by my stepdad – who didn’t know anything about menstruation. I hadn’t had sex education in school yet and so I didn’t know what was going on. At the time, everyone would get dressed for PE in the same room and I had to ask to go to the bathroom to get dressed out of embarrassment, while everyone else laughed about me.
Anonymous, Essex