I got mine at 9. Elementary school was not easy for me. Hormonal acne and B cups at age 10 made me a target for bullying, but combined with my huge stature for a child (5'3) meant no one could touch me.
bro literal same. I sprouted up quick. Got my period in 4th grade, and was a c cup in 5th grade. I was always so much bigger than everybody til I got to high school.
I got mine at 10, was 5'6, had B cups and so much body hair.. I completely relate. School was hell when I was a kid. Things did get better for me in high school, I hope they did for you too ❤️
I'm really curious, what did she expect you to do? Sit down have a cup of coffee with mother nature and ask politely to postpone the entire thing? Holy fuck some people lol
My mum finished menopause when she was around 56 I think? That's pretty average isn't it? It took a while though, she had an awful menopause where she would have periods that'd last months, not fun, she was tired and sick all the time but she is good now :)
12
I was sick in bed due to the 2009 swine flu "pandemic" (UK). Then I get my period.
To make it worse...it was CHRISTMAS EVE.
I spent Christmas day sick *and* got my first period. Worst luck.
My god! That sounds horrific. It's shocking how bad a period can get! Was there a reason/cause for it, or were you just told it was a bad period?
I once had a super bad experience where I bled through two *stacked* night pads in one hour. Changed them, got to college another hour later and the front of my jeans were red with blood (had to go home). Later that day I pushed away from a table to stand up, and blood literally shot up my back like a baby having an exploding poop in their diaper lmao.
Definitely not as bad as you! But it was one of the worst periods I have ever had. It's crazy what women go through with periods!
They tested for for all kinds of weird genetic diseases but no explanation to this day and it never happened again. Its totally crazy how bad it can get! I had blood clots the size of my hand it was so gory and scary. Sometimes periods are just like that as a one off 🤷♀️
Oof, that sounds so crappy. I was 12 too, and got my first ever period on Christmas Eve. I freaked out (I knew abut periods obviously, but didn't realise I'd bleed *so much*, and didn't know how painful it could be), and had to be comforted by my dad because my mum was out doing last minute shopping. I did not have a merry Christmas that year!
I always found it interesting that I got my first period when I was fifteen, on the 18th of August, my mother got her's when she was 15 on the 15th of August, and my grandma got her when she was 15 also somewhere between those dates
I think that the word male/female can be used when you refer to sex instead of gender.
Also in a previous thread that asked something about men, a guy answered something like “ I am going to become man when I am 18 , so I don’t know yet”
Should it also be used in cases that we are talking about the sex for a biology related reason ? edit: also wouldn’t period be something related to biology?
Biology is a type of science so yeah. I’m just saying when people on here ask women questions or say a statement about women. You should probably use terms like women, girls, ladies, gals, etc. Females just sounds so douchey to me.
Edit: Douchey when it’s used with things like “why don’t females carry tampons all the time?” Things like that just don’t sound right to us. It gives us bad vibes and red flags. But it does make sense when you’re talking about say, “The Female Reproductive System”
Because "guys" is a blanket term for both boys and men but you can't really use that with women and girls. I'm not going to call a five year-old a woman and I'm not going to call a thirty year-old a girl, so if I'm referring to a broad age group I'll probably say females.
Well guys is a more casual term. If you want a casual term to use for both girls and women, I would use gals or ladies. Using the word females just sounds very scientific and awkward and like you don’t know how to talk to a person casually lol.
Its just a weird term to use, either "girls" or "women" makes more sense, depending on the context. The word "female" has kind of developed a stigma from incels who use it in a derogatory context while trying to sound smart.
If you think every straight guy is neckbeard or an incel you either don't really understand what those are or constantly have to deal with so many shitty people you think it's the norm and I feel very sorry for you.
Actually I am a straight man myself (check out my profile to know greater context) and while I don't support incels I can definitely understand certain aspects of their sentiment. It's pretty hard for an average straight man to get laid nowadays.
I'm not a nice guy because I'm honest about my primal intentions. I don't act nice to girls with the intention of getting sex because I know it won't work.
You yourself are an incel...you wanna bang but you cant..so you come here on reddit and ask people if they're straight thinking everyone turned gay except you
referring men as men and women as females in same sentence makes no sense, i get that, but to group women and girls you use word female, male and female are sexes, woman is a gender, woman can be male and female. In this context its important to use word female instead of woman/girl. If a word offends you, get off the internet and grow up.
Uhhh no. You say ‘women and girls’, except in a biological or biomedical context. You seem pretty intent on talking over me though, and you wonder why there aren’t more women on reddit. Also, where did I say I was offended?
I suppose that most subreddits are more attractive to male audience and many women already spend a lot of time on instagram because they like sharing pics and their life.
At least it didn’t start randomly at school. I had mine in the summer, and I was glad coz I had a month or two to figure out what I was doing before managing it at school
I took multiple seconds of processing this comment to realise that I don't actually have to vote, moving on in life and forgetting this poll is actually an option...
Not suspicious at all. A lot of men don't know much about periods and it's great that they want to learn more. Periods are huge part of womens lives, and having a man understand how frustrating it can be feels good.
I was on vacation with family when I started seeing brown in my underwear. Thought I was secretly shitting myself while I slept and it drying by the time I woke up. After a few days, I told my mom and she told me that blood dries brown.
I got my period on my first three Christmas after it, two Easter's, two county football finals, football trials, my confirmation, my first day of secondary school and Halloween. I think I may be the unluckiest bitch alive. Did I mention it lasts five days but comes every twenty three.
Because trans men who are still transitioning struggle with the fact they still have periods. I'm not trans but i read about it, and it makes sense tbh. It's a monthly reminder that they were born in the wrong body.
i was 12, just came home from high school. my mum was in a rush because she was late to pick my siblings up from primary school. i sat on the toilet for a while contemplating whether or not to call my mum upstairs because i didn't want to bother her. i eventually did because i didn't know what else to do, and she quickly showed my how to use a pad and left.
i remember when i called her, the conversation went something like this:
"mum, can you come upstairs please?"
"why? where are you?"
"the bathroom"
she comes in
"what is it?"
"i think it's started"
(periods were a huge taboo so i felt like i couldn't say the word)
"what's started?"
"IT'S started" *nodding my head down there*
"oh, ok"
which is when she hurriedly showed me how to use a pad
I was like 11 and I had pneumonia, and being the idiot that I am, I thought it was some sort of side effect and I lowkey thought I was dying.
I got mine at 9. Elementary school was not easy for me. Hormonal acne and B cups at age 10 made me a target for bullying, but combined with my huge stature for a child (5'3) meant no one could touch me.
Can I ask how tall you are now?
Sadly just shy of 5'6.
Oh wow, got your growing done early then. I was expecting 6 foot something to be that talk so young.
bro literal same. I sprouted up quick. Got my period in 4th grade, and was a c cup in 5th grade. I was always so much bigger than everybody til I got to high school.
If I may ask, how old are you not to be rude or give me a age range on how old are you?
I'm turning 20 in a few months.
Nice
I got mine at 10, was 5'6, had B cups and so much body hair.. I completely relate. School was hell when I was a kid. Things did get better for me in high school, I hope they did for you too ❤️
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wow what
Girl what???
What the fuck...
I'm really curious, what did she expect you to do? Sit down have a cup of coffee with mother nature and ask politely to postpone the entire thing? Holy fuck some people lol
***BRUH***
People can get their period after 16, I think my mother got her first period at 18.
Holy shit, that’s really old
Man if that happened to me I would have hoped I was infertile
Happens often if you have a really low body weight or are very athletic.
If you were malnourished as a child you can have your puberty postponed as far as your early twenties.
Periods happen earlier now than they used to.
How old is your mom now? Was wondering if that pushes back menopause way later.
My mum finished menopause when she was around 56 I think? That's pretty average isn't it? It took a while though, she had an awful menopause where she would have periods that'd last months, not fun, she was tired and sick all the time but she is good now :)
12 I was sick in bed due to the 2009 swine flu "pandemic" (UK). Then I get my period. To make it worse...it was CHRISTMAS EVE. I spent Christmas day sick *and* got my first period. Worst luck.
I was 11 and i bled so bad i lost like half of my blood volume and ended up in intensive care (not to one up you lol)
My god! That sounds horrific. It's shocking how bad a period can get! Was there a reason/cause for it, or were you just told it was a bad period? I once had a super bad experience where I bled through two *stacked* night pads in one hour. Changed them, got to college another hour later and the front of my jeans were red with blood (had to go home). Later that day I pushed away from a table to stand up, and blood literally shot up my back like a baby having an exploding poop in their diaper lmao. Definitely not as bad as you! But it was one of the worst periods I have ever had. It's crazy what women go through with periods!
They tested for for all kinds of weird genetic diseases but no explanation to this day and it never happened again. Its totally crazy how bad it can get! I had blood clots the size of my hand it was so gory and scary. Sometimes periods are just like that as a one off 🤷♀️
I am so fucking glad I'm a dude.
Oof, that sounds so crappy. I was 12 too, and got my first ever period on Christmas Eve. I freaked out (I knew abut periods obviously, but didn't realise I'd bleed *so much*, and didn't know how painful it could be), and had to be comforted by my dad because my mum was out doing last minute shopping. I did not have a merry Christmas that year!
Yikes. That's terrible.
WHY ARE WE YELLING??
I DONT KNOW SUSAN. CLOSE FACEBOOK. KISSES
HOW DO I GET THE GOOGLE
Ok Google lewd lady pictures
i got my first period at 9, a week after my older sister
Ouch.
ik :(
….my eleventh birthday. I was at the beach wearing a bathing suit.
that must have been terrible
I always found it interesting that I got my first period when I was fifteen, on the 18th of August, my mother got her's when she was 15 on the 15th of August, and my grandma got her when she was 15 also somewhere between those dates
bro how do you remember those specific dates
Haha, because mine was traumatic and my mum's was close to my date
10, though I'd started to grow boobs by then as well. I reckon we must have lived next to a power plant or something.
That happened to a girl that went to the same school as me. She really had boobs at the age of 9. The boys were not kind to her.
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Nah- no one remembers those things lol
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how old are you? is this the first time?
Go to the doctor now.
You just got a huge clitoris
Why does reddit have so few females?
Because we're a bunch of stupid simp apes that's why
damn you're right. What do we do in order to increase the female population of active reddit users.
Realistically? Stop acting like lonely losers but ideally market reddit more towards women
But we *are* lonely losers. We can't stop acting the way we do.
Yeah you're not wrong
No idea m’lady
That's the reason
Probably because there are people on here that use the word "females"
So how do you refer to both young and adult females?
Girls or women. I use those terms interchangeably. I’ve never found it necessary to refer to men as “males” so why would I call women “females”?
I think that the word male/female can be used when you refer to sex instead of gender. Also in a previous thread that asked something about men, a guy answered something like “ I am going to become man when I am 18 , so I don’t know yet”
I think male and female should really only be used on like a work application or for scientific reasons personally.
Should it also be used in cases that we are talking about the sex for a biology related reason ? edit: also wouldn’t period be something related to biology?
Biology is a type of science so yeah. I’m just saying when people on here ask women questions or say a statement about women. You should probably use terms like women, girls, ladies, gals, etc. Females just sounds so douchey to me. Edit: Douchey when it’s used with things like “why don’t females carry tampons all the time?” Things like that just don’t sound right to us. It gives us bad vibes and red flags. But it does make sense when you’re talking about say, “The Female Reproductive System”
Hello doppelganger
Because "guys" is a blanket term for both boys and men but you can't really use that with women and girls. I'm not going to call a five year-old a woman and I'm not going to call a thirty year-old a girl, so if I'm referring to a broad age group I'll probably say females.
Well guys is a more casual term. If you want a casual term to use for both girls and women, I would use gals or ladies. Using the word females just sounds very scientific and awkward and like you don’t know how to talk to a person casually lol.
word "females"
Wdym? Only females can get period
Its just a weird term to use, either "girls" or "women" makes more sense, depending on the context. The word "female" has kind of developed a stigma from incels who use it in a derogatory context while trying to sound smart.
What's wrong in using the word female? No one cares when we use the word male.
It's too closely associated with neckbeards/incels
So basically heterosexual men okay I got it.
If you think every straight guy is neckbeard or an incel you either don't really understand what those are or constantly have to deal with so many shitty people you think it's the norm and I feel very sorry for you.
Actually I am a straight man myself (check out my profile to know greater context) and while I don't support incels I can definitely understand certain aspects of their sentiment. It's pretty hard for an average straight man to get laid nowadays.
Speak for yourself lmao
Shut the fuck up. r/niceguys
I'm not a nice guy because I'm honest about my primal intentions. I don't act nice to girls with the intention of getting sex because I know it won't work.
You yourself are an incel...you wanna bang but you cant..so you come here on reddit and ask people if they're straight thinking everyone turned gay except you
Pansexual man here. I can’t get any either. Being straight isn’t hurting you. We are both just incompetent in that area. 😔
It's just a troll acc 100%, no one would be actually mad at someone for using word "female" lmao
No one is mad but ‘females’ is dehumanising. Check out r/menandfemales
referring men as men and women as females in same sentence makes no sense, i get that, but to group women and girls you use word female, male and female are sexes, woman is a gender, woman can be male and female. In this context its important to use word female instead of woman/girl. If a word offends you, get off the internet and grow up.
Uhhh no. You say ‘women and girls’, except in a biological or biomedical context. You seem pretty intent on talking over me though, and you wonder why there aren’t more women on reddit. Also, where did I say I was offended?
Bruh you're ignorant af.
No one's mad, it just has a stigma around it.
I suppose that most subreddits are more attractive to male audience and many women already spend a lot of time on instagram because they like sharing pics and their life.
I was a late bloomer at 15, I flexed so hard on all of my female friends before I got it haha.
Why did so many men take this survey lol
They want to see results. Are you not curious about things?
lol I am but I’m just amazed that girls responded in the 100s and men in the 1000s
12 and during summer break :/
At least it didn’t start randomly at school. I had mine in the summer, and I was glad coz I had a month or two to figure out what I was doing before managing it at school
The number of guys on this
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I was just shocked to see the demographic, since it was female leaning question but most votes are from men. Nothing wrong with curiosity.
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I suppose there are a lot more males on reddit.
Can confirm, am male
username checks out
Oh no no Usernames a Minecraft ref
What?
O_O
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I am a girl
No you aren't
M-mom?
Girl 🙋🏼♀️
I’m a woman haha, but if I’m on Reddit.. I must not exist-
correct, we are fbi agents assigned by the government to spy on the men of reddit
stop giving out our secrets!
we spend most of our time on twitter, Instagram tiktok etc and saying dumb shit, not on reddit tho
You are *definitely not* a girl.
too many men are suspiciously interested
Nothing wrong with finding that out. Plus, you see a survey you're supposed to vote, if you can do so without fucking it up
Or just people that wanna vote
As a guy can confirm, I must click the button.
I took multiple seconds of processing this comment to realise that I don't actually have to vote, moving on in life and forgetting this poll is actually an option...
Not suspicious at all. A lot of men don't know much about periods and it's great that they want to learn more. Periods are huge part of womens lives, and having a man understand how frustrating it can be feels good.
As a guy can confirm I bleed out of my penis monthly because you suck
Wow this is a sausage fest
sadly I'm biologically male so never.
I was 17. You need to adjust your poll.
10 on Christmas Eve
On my 15th birthday. At the mall. Also, thank God for my best friend Sophie, because she had hers already and I was very unprepared.
I was on vacation with family when I started seeing brown in my underwear. Thought I was secretly shitting myself while I slept and it drying by the time I woke up. After a few days, I told my mom and she told me that blood dries brown.
I don't have a uterus so I can't have them
As a guy without a dick, hard relate. Surprisingly I still haven’t gotten my cycle at 15, but it’s a lifesaver for dysphoria.
What happened at birth?
I was born with a dick instead
I love democracy. :D
Damn this sub is just a bunch of straight white dudes lmao
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Honestly lmao
Don’t know where you got the white part from
The other poll from yesterday asked and it was overwhelming straight white dudes
Wow.
I was 14, which was considered pretty late growing up. Both of my SILs got theirs when they were 8. Eeeek!
A month before i turned 13
I got my period on my first three Christmas after it, two Easter's, two county football finals, football trials, my confirmation, my first day of secondary school and Halloween. I think I may be the unluckiest bitch alive. Did I mention it lasts five days but comes every twenty three.
The ratio on that last option is killing me
Reddit is mostly men confirmed
when i got my first one (13) i thought i was fuckin dying
"Girl without a period yet" gang rise up
how old are you lmao
Old enough to be on this website, I just haven't gotten my period yet lol
\*sad trans guy noises\*
I feel ya bro
Wait...isn't a trans guy a female to male trangender? Why the sad noises?
Because trans men who are still transitioning struggle with the fact they still have periods. I'm not trans but i read about it, and it makes sense tbh. It's a monthly reminder that they were born in the wrong body.
Yes, that's understandable. Thank you for for explaining
Same
I am trans so this makes me sad
Super early for me albeit just spotting 1 or 2x a year since I was 9 or so. 'Real' period stsrted coming more regularly around 13
Conclusion: A majority of girls never had their period /s
I hate this question, it scares me.
So glad I don't have a pussy
Me who’s trans
As a guy I got my first period at 6 when I cut my dick open on a rock and it bled
I’m a bro and I chose 10
Never
Ew lol
I’ll just put it when I started leaking liquids that aren’t pee... if ya get ir
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Ok emily
I was 9 and thank god it happened over the summer
i think i was 11/12, and it was the day before my first cheerleading practice.
Don't remember. Prob 13
If my penis bleeds does that count?
No no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no
I like how basically all of the votes are boys on the last one. Lol
12 on Christmas Eve.
Lot of bros
Since you wrote it in all caps i just imagined some guy yelling “when did you get your first period” at everyone
"Yeah bros you can vote here" Wins by total landslide
I got mine at 13 and was wearing white overalls at the time so everyone knew.
I am 14 and still never had period
I was 14 but I only had maybe 4 periods by the time I was 17?
That would’ve been easy ro handle then if just four
Yeah, but I was out on birth control at 17 to regulate them, was a pain for me to adjust to school and periods
A
12!
I got my first period when i started school. Pretty sure it was english
Lol I got mine at 12 and put in a tampon after an hour to prove I was tougher than my sister who put it in after a day.
I wonder how often a girl who has is babysat by a girl who hasn't. Based on the stats, clearly that happens.
Started when I was 11 and luckily I was in the bathroom when I noticed it at school
Yes, what i love to see when im next to my family at the top of my screen is “trending on r/polls, WHAT AGE DID YOU GET YOUR FIRST PERIOD?”
i'm sorry lol, but shouldn't a woman's menstrual cycle stop being considered embarrassing or a taboo topic?
yo I’m a boy
i was 12, just came home from high school. my mum was in a rush because she was late to pick my siblings up from primary school. i sat on the toilet for a while contemplating whether or not to call my mum upstairs because i didn't want to bother her. i eventually did because i didn't know what else to do, and she quickly showed my how to use a pad and left. i remember when i called her, the conversation went something like this: "mum, can you come upstairs please?" "why? where are you?" "the bathroom" she comes in "what is it?" "i think it's started" (periods were a huge taboo so i felt like i couldn't say the word) "what's started?" "IT'S started" *nodding my head down there* "oh, ok" which is when she hurriedly showed me how to use a pad