the period project

rant seventy: blood volcano

@bendystraw 

So when I was in sixth grade, I got my period and for some stupid reason I couldn't figure out how to use a tampon for THREE WHOLE FUCKING YEARS afterwards. Like, dude its not that complicated. But, I was so worried that I wouldn't be able to have sex because I couldn't put a teeny tiny tampon inside of me let alone a dick.

Anyhow, there was this girl and she was frightened of blood, so, I knew that she didn't have her period yet because GURL HAVING UR PERIOD IS LIKE HAVING A BLOOD VOLCANO INBETWEEN UR THIGHS THAT ERUPTS MONTHLY FOR A WEEK NON-STOP.

And during middle school I had this horrific gym teacher who must have forgotten what it was like to be a young teenager with a period because she was always giving me crap about not being able to swim. And once she made me tell the whole class that I had my period because I was to embarrassed to say it to her the first time. LEMME JUST TELL YOU MS. MUCKSUSKEY WAS A MAJOR BITCH.

Once when I was on my period, I burst into tears in the middle of school because Augustus Waters died.

I had read the Fault In Our Stars months before that and it was before the movie. Just a completely random sadness about the death of a fictional character.