Today, I got my first period. My dad bought me a card and had everyone in my family sign it. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Same thing different taste
Today, I got an electric razor and a lesson from my dad on how to shave my mustache and chin. I also got my period. FML
Today, at a family reunion, my dad announced to everyone that I'd finally started my menstrual cycle. My grandmother started sobbing hysterically. FML
Today, I found my daughter sobbing and trying to stick a wad of gauze to her vagina. She was having her first period. FML
Today, it's my birthday. I got a graphing calculator and my period. FML
Friends
Today, I just got my first period. My mother has been dead for years and my stepmother genuinely wishes I was dead, so who am I supposed to tell? FML
Today, I got a birthday card from my parents. It was my sister's from earlier in the year. They scratched out her name and wrote mine underneath. FML
Cycles of life
Today, my daughter got her first period. I'm the one shaking and hyperventilating. I'm more nervous for her than I was for myself back when I got my first period. I just now understand my mom while she was pacing through house back and forward when I got my first. FML
PSA
Today, my mom made a Facebook post about me starting my period and for everyone to be nice to me. FML
Today, I called my mom to tell her that I finally got my period. There was an awkward pause. She was at work. I was on speakerphone. FML
Today, my mum, who always wanted more kids than just me, started crying because I'm not pregnant with her first grandchild yet. I'm 16, and this all started because I got my period and I asked to borrow one of her tampons because I'd ran out of my own. FML
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Rach17 0
Oh, God, your life SUCKS. My dad wouldn't even want to KNOW I started my period. :) He'll just have my mom take care of it. :)
fosizzlemynizzlE 0
you're profile says you're 19 years old. and ******* twilight is your photo. dont be calling other people toddlers when you're barely in college, bitch.
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Intoxicunt 6
#26, hahaha. Nice. OP, ok, so your family is inappropriate. It's a nice gesture. They probably (especially your dad) don't realize how weird it comes across. Welcome to womanhood, lol.
freudianego 0
YDI for being a woman. This is your punishment.
ijustlaugh 0
and that's why you aren't gonna get any
Z00daCrew 0
Wow... was there at least a gift card? Perhaps a funny poem? TBH, I didn't know Hallmark made a card for this kind of occasion.
Intoxicunt 6
Cream parties... I laughed so hard I almost died of asphyxia. That being said, I agree with SOMAgirl (to SOME extent). I don't like discussing that stuff with my male family members any more than I like them discussing with me their erections or ejaculation haha. But it's true that women are being taught to feel ashamed of something totally natural. I guess if I had that kind of relationship with my male family members, I wouldn't really mind. Periods are as normal as a guy's voice deepening, and that is celebrated.
NorfolkDude 2
What's wrong with being a woman? I mean if your daddy-os still with your momma, I'm pretty positive the reason why he got you a card is because he knows what it's like to come home to a woman with her period and her first period? That's like 12 times the disaster, but otherwise later in life when you're all used to your period, a guy will bring you flowers, candy, etc.
gildedmuse 0
Actually, first periods aren't that bad. Your hormones increase over time and then decrease again. Most people get their "worst" periods in their early twenties. That's when a lot of women first discover they have cystic ovaries because the cramping pain gets so bad. The cysts may have been their for years but the natural influx of hormones agitates the condition. Most women I know didn't get any sort of PMS until their late teens, even. Also, OP, I would be thankful to have a dad that celebrates instead of decries your period. Is it embarrassing? Yes, perhaps. With so many men acting like peiords tu♦rn women into monsters, however, making faces and running away at the very thought of it, consider having one who thinks it's special something of a gift.
CurlyHairGuy 0
I really dont get why women getting their frist period is so special... "Oh hey i just got my first ejaculation! Let's tell tell everyone in our family so they can know I'm a man!" But whatever, i wouldn't say YDI but at least your father tried to be nice so i wouldn't say it sucked either
DameGreyWulf 1
You know what? I am going to MAKE that card. Everyone will laugh and say - "That is inappropriate and silly!" But they will see... you will all see! My line of first ejaculation cards will rule the world through your local Hallmark stores!
curryndricegirll 0
well...first period means you can have babies. first ejaculation...?
DameGreyWulf 1
First ejaculation means you can have babies also. It's a sign your semen have matured to the reproductive point. If you can't ejaculate, you can not spread your seed... well.. normally, anyway.
OMGitsKaleyxo 0
wow id be so embarrased. haha when i got mine my dads like "oh. thats um. nice." and walks away really fast. haa.
chocolatemilk14 0
You call this an FML? Really? This is pathetic, you have a dad that cares about you. My dad buys my tampons, you really need to get over it. If you think your life is ending over something like this then you are in for a suprise when something actually bad happens to you.
Turquoise_Sheep 0
At least you got something! My mom just told everyone and I didn't even get a card.
JoeJoe711 0
Lol, my sister was at softball practice when she got hers and my dad (the coach) didn't know what to do (first girl) so he asked all the moms their if she could borrow any "feminem wet wipes." lmao