A recent Reddit thread will leave you counting your blessings that sex doesn't actually go down like a bunch of misinformed, puberty-stricken kids think.
Good God that would be horrifying.
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<p>Let's face it. Many of us did not sit down for a long conversation about sex with our parents or our teachers. So, being kids, we used rumor and imagination to fill in the gaps.</p><p>Sex education often looked a little like the following:</p><p>First, someone's older sibling lied and said something crazy about how sex works. That kid believed the comment as gospel, and went to school the next day.</p><p>A committee was then formed at a lunch table, where any finer details and plot-holes were worked out through sheer will and blind enthusiasm.</p><p>Then, through oral tradition, a new understanding of sex took the school by storm.</p><p>jjgp1112 asked, <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ksefbr/what_were_weird_myths_you_thought_about_sex_as_a/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">"What were weird myths you thought about sex as a kid?"</a></p>
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Sheathed Until Sunrise
<p>"I had no clue what ejaculation was in 5th grade, so I though the thing went in and stayed there for like, the whole night. 7 hours or something, then the baby appeared" -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ksefbr/what_were_weird_myths_you_thought_about_sex_as_a/gifjzsw?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">HaroldMcbob</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"I used to think the same thing! I was always confused on how you would have sex while sleeping. I assumed you just had to get lucky and roll over top your partner in your sleep" -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ksefbr/what_were_weird_myths_you_thought_about_sex_as_a/gig2i1s?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">SpongeV2</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_2" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Years of Training
<p>"I was not aware of the vagina having an access to an inside before I hit puberty, so I thought sex was, well, anal. And that birth was basically shi**ing a baby out." </p><p>"So anytime I was having a hard time with number 2 in the bathroom, I would try to motivate myself that I'm basically practicing the pain for child birth, and that it could be so much worse."</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ksefbr/what_were_weird_myths_you_thought_about_sex_as_a/gig6jvt?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">maheen9393</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_3" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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A Scary 3 Years
<p>"In elementary a kid asked me if I knew what a condom was."</p><p>"I went ahead and described a nicotine patch." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ksefbr/what_were_weird_myths_you_thought_about_sex_as_a/gig2y9w?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Pluckt007</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"Kid asked me the same. 'No,' I said."</p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"'Well... It's when you cut the skin off your penis,' he said as we kids stared at a used condom in the bushes at our elementary school."</p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"I spent 3 years believing that I had seen discarded penis skin." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ksefbr/what_were_weird_myths_you_thought_about_sex_as_a/gihvi2d?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Snatch_Liquor</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_4" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Power in the Bedroom
<p>"Whoever tried harder would determine the gender of the baby.." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ksefbr/what_were_weird_myths_you_thought_about_sex_as_a/gig6ir3?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">rosenes2</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"Sheesh, then I certainly hope they were in agreement on who would "win" lol. I can't stop imagining a couple battle f***ing to the death." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ksefbr/what_were_weird_myths_you_thought_about_sex_as_a/gigbrus?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">PumpkinPox</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"Charles Darwin would be proud." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ksefbr/what_were_weird_myths_you_thought_about_sex_as_a/gih4nj0?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Kennyboy_7</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_5" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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So Quaint
<p>"My sister thinks sex is two people laying naked on top of each other and talking about marriage" -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ksefbr/what_were_weird_myths_you_thought_about_sex_as_a/gifyhz0?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">satansgoldfish2222</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"Depending on her age that's either really cute or really disturbing" -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ksefbr/what_were_weird_myths_you_thought_about_sex_as_a/gig5t63?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">zoe_2703</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"<em>the two sat there and layed naked on top of each other"</em><span></span></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"Him: now that we are finally here on top of each other, what kind of house do you think would be nice? Her: oh I don't know, a townhouse seems nice" -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ksefbr/what_were_weird_myths_you_thought_about_sex_as_a/gigoc65?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">tastelessryan</a></p>Gushing
<p>"That you just put your di** inside a woman and then the sperm starts flowing continuously, like pee."</p><p>"Oh and that you actually have to push the sperm out yourself, like pee. You learn to do that when you get old enough."</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ksefbr/what_were_weird_myths_you_thought_about_sex_as_a/gifjf32?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">minigopher</a><br></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_6" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Biblical Mechanisms
<p>"I thought you literally could not have sex before marriage. It couldn't happen. The vagina would reject the penis like water and oil." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ksefbr/what_were_weird_myths_you_thought_about_sex_as_a/gifies0?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">ImInJeopardy</a><span></span></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"I din't think this but I thought you could only get a girl pregnant if you were married."</p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"Little did I know, I was born a good 8 months before my parents got married!" -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ksefbr/what_were_weird_myths_you_thought_about_sex_as_a/gifixlm?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">jjgp1112</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_7" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Utterly Grotesque
<p>"I thought sperm were the size of tadpoles."</p><p>"I thought they shot out and filled up the condom like a water balloon and you would be able to see and hear them slithering and wriggling around."</p><p>"Needless to say I was scared of sexual maturity for a while."</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ksefbr/what_were_weird_myths_you_thought_about_sex_as_a/gifmrq1?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">FractitiousBetaMale</a></p><div data-conversation-spotlight style="min-height:90px"></div>
The Warmest Condom Ever
<p>"I heard about sheepskin or lambskin condoms when I was a kid and for some reason imagined a guy wrapping one of my rabbit pelts around his member and trying to get that into a woman."</p><p>"Never occurred to me they'd just use the skin and not the whole hide."</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ksefbr/what_were_weird_myths_you_thought_about_sex_as_a/gifr14z?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">BobaFettuccine</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_8" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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A Major Miscalculation
<p>"I always thought homosexual meant that you like to have sex at home. I was trying to sound cool at summer camp when I was around 12 so I told everyone I was homosexual."</p><p>"All of the girls started hanging out with me and I thought all the guys were avoiding me because they were jealous."</p><p>"Realized my mistake later in the summer and never went back to that camp or talked to anyone there again."</p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_9" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Many blessings
<p>One of my best friends growing up was Mormon. Luckily she had enough sexual education to understand how babies were made. She did, however, tell me about a distant cousin of hers who was so sheltered that she had absolutely no concept that sex existed at all. She and her husband both had no idea how to make babies. They thought married couples just had to pray to God to get pregnant, and they had no idea they were supposed to physically do anything. </p><p>They never had sex. After a year of "trying" (the prayer thing) they asked their bishop for spiritual guidance and what they were doing wrong, why God would not bless them with a child... And the bishop then had a very awkward sex talk with these adult people. Imagine, after a year of marriage, finding out from your bishop that you were supposed to be putting your WHAT in her WHAT!?!</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/floatingwithobrien/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">floatingwithobrien</a><span style="background-color: initial;"></span></p>
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Food baby
<p>I thought eating a lot of food until you got fat got you pregnant, this was reinforced when people said they have a 'food baby'.</p><p><span></span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/SolomonKhalifa/" target="_blank">SolomonKhalifa</a><span style="background-color: initial;"></span></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_11" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Kiss
<p><br>Thought that babies were made by the kiss at the wedding. As in, you may kiss the bride, boom, pregnant. Also thought that you weren't allowed to kiss until marriage and this was why.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/_spaceman_spliff/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">_spaceman_spliff</a><br></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_12" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Butt what?
<p>My friend told me when we were 7 that having sex was touching buts with a girl. Accidentally touched buts with a girl in the pool later and thought I had had sex. Took me a few years to figure it out.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/J_avenue_/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">J_avenue_</a><span style="background-color: initial;"></span></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_13" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Blushing
<p><br>I saw the episode of Seinfeld where George wanted to have makeup sex. I thought they meant makeup as in the beauty products you put on your face. When he was struggling to open the condom, I thought it was the pack of foundation he couldn't open. So nine year old me thought that people smeared makeup all over each other during sex.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/fastfood12/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">fastfood12</a><span style="background-color: initial;"></span></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_14" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Time table
<p>My parents had six kids, all of us almost exactly two years apart. The logical 10yo me deduced that my parents had sex once - on their wedding night - and then the babies just started coming every two years.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/ClimbAndRunAndStuff/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">ClimbAndRunAndStuff</a><span style="background-color: initial;"></span></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_15" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Sexual invitations are apparently in the eye of the beholder.
Never again will a sneeze or a lollipop be a PG behavior. That stuff gets X-rated QUICK.
<p>When a purely functional action appears wildly sexual, it's a total paradigm shift. </p><p>It does not matter if years went by with no promiscuous conclusions. The action could have been totally functional, a mundane behavior of daily life.</p><p>But it shifts.</p><p>When the threshold is crossed into the sex universe, the once behavior can never regain the old innocence.</p><p>It’s like passing the risqué Rubicon.</p><p> But this is not the Roman army stuck on the wrong side of a river. This is an array oftongues and lips and teeth and eyes, in no particular order.</p><p>Xikayo asked, <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/fv89gh/what_seemingly_innocent_action_gives_off_a_sexual/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">"What seemingly innocent action gives off a sexual impression?"</a></p>
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All About the Subtext
<p>"When I was 15 I made an animation for my friend's dad's drilling company. It showed a drill rod rotating in and out of a dirt hole which had a patch of grass around it. My mother saw it and told me to rethink it."</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/fv89gh/what_seemingly_innocent_action_gives_off_a_sexual/fmhlix0?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">FatherOfTheSevenSeas</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_36" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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COUGH INTO YOUR ELBOW
<p>"When people make a fist to cough into, that second when they have their mouths open, I always imagine them sucking d*ck, always. And it doesn't matter who, everyone." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/fv89gh/what_seemingly_innocent_action_gives_off_a_sexual/fmhdirp?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">tibisay_the_monkey</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"Read this. Coughed like this. Got enlightened. Not doing that ever again." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/fv89gh/what_seemingly_innocent_action_gives_off_a_sexual/fmieb5d?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">secksiboi62</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_2" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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In Good Hands
<p>"When a guy is putting the car in reverse and puts his arm around the passenger seat to look behind him." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/fv89gh/what_seemingly_innocent_action_gives_off_a_sexual/fmhpz58?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">kaylapears</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"YES LORD" -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/fv89gh/what_seemingly_innocent_action_gives_off_a_sexual/fmi64hx?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">Belialzebub</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"Highly underrated. Being focused is so hot." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/fv89gh/what_seemingly_innocent_action_gives_off_a_sexual/fmiepco?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">themoondream</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_3" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Routine Maintenance
<p>"Pulling out a wedgie/adjusting the crotch area. I'm just feeling like a sandwich down there." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/fv89gh/what_seemingly_innocent_action_gives_off_a_sexual/fmhgc3c?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">ParadoxicalProblem</a></p><p>"I feel really embarrassed when I notice my zipper is down. I try to fix it without anyone noticing because I'm afraid they will think I'm doing some perverted stuff." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/fv89gh/what_seemingly_innocent_action_gives_off_a_sexual/fmhdme4?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">oldcoffee</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_4" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Through a Lens of Loneliness
<p>"When I was younger, getting a hug from a girl would have me fantasizing about our future together for months." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/fv89gh/what_seemingly_innocent_action_gives_off_a_sexual/fmhcdxv?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">Diraka</a><span></span></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"Sh*t, it wouldn't even take a hug for me. When I was younger, a girl could just be polite while I was paying her for my Auntie Anne's pretzels and before the transaction was over she was the one and we were going to be together forever." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/fv89gh/what_seemingly_innocent_action_gives_off_a_sexual/fmi0kow?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">compendium88</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"Look at this player." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/fv89gh/what_seemingly_innocent_action_gives_off_a_sexual/fmipcxw?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">Maselang_Bahaghari</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_5" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Gotta Be a Freud Quote for this
<p>"The look on your face when you're about to sneeze." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/fv89gh/what_seemingly_innocent_action_gives_off_a_sexual/fmh7iju?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">SomeOriginalContent</a><span></span></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"Can confirm. People pay me money to sneeze, and it is definitely sexual to them." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/fv89gh/what_seemingly_innocent_action_gives_off_a_sexual/fmi26vi?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">wanderingnightt</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"They say a sneeze is 1/8 of an orgasm. That's why I keep a pepper shaker on my nightstand." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/fv89gh/what_seemingly_innocent_action_gives_off_a_sexual/fmioijz?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">Torpid-O</a></p>The Hot, and the Not So Hot
<p>"Seeing a guy take off a sweater by reaching over his head and pulling it off. I have no idea how guys are able to undress this way but it can definitely be a turn on." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/fv89gh/what_seemingly_innocent_action_gives_off_a_sexual/fmhdeti?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">DazedAndConfused0112</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"Because they don't have boobs." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/fv89gh/what_seemingly_innocent_action_gives_off_a_sexual/fmhnnq3?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">aqua64</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"I stuff my arms into the sleeve then slip my head in..." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/fv89gh/what_seemingly_innocent_action_gives_off_a_sexual/fmhoue8?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">Synzy</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_6" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Risqué Dessert
<p>"I no longer eat ice cream in public thanks to multiple people telling me that I eat them 'seductively.'" -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/fv89gh/what_seemingly_innocent_action_gives_off_a_sexual/fmh6y94?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">dragon8713</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"Similarly I got in trouble for deep-throating a popsicle when I was like 8. I don't even know why I did it. My step dad told me to stop." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/fv89gh/what_seemingly_innocent_action_gives_off_a_sexual/fmhdey7?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">Chipring13</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_7" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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“Friends,” Right.
<p>"Trying to make a friend of the opposite sex once you're over 25. It's SO hard to just make friends without it seeming like you're trying to get with them." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/fv89gh/what_seemingly_innocent_action_gives_off_a_sexual/fmhah6m?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">ACakeCalledDenial</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"I have a female coworker that I chat with regularly, my wife thinks she wants to bang me. 'No, Honey, not all opposite sex relationships have to revolve around sex.'"</p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"Turns out she was right... but I shut that down lol." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/fv89gh/what_seemingly_innocent_action_gives_off_a_sexual/fmhxfy2?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">medium2slow</a></p><div data-conversation-spotlight style="min-height:90px"></div>
The Most Innocent, the Most Sexual
<p>"Genuinely listening/responding. I can find you interesting without wanting to get in your pants." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/fv89gh/what_seemingly_innocent_action_gives_off_a_sexual/fmh4wzj?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">Sloth_Reborn</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"This. God knows how many times I have given the wrong idea because somehow people have come to conclusion that you only listen to opposite gender if you wanna f*ck them." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/fv89gh/what_seemingly_innocent_action_gives_off_a_sexual/fmi06md?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">Moonlights_Embrace</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_8" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Teenagers Explain Which Things They Thought Were Puberty Related But Turned Out To Be Something Else
March 31 | 2020
Puberty is a confusing time. SO many things are happening to you on several levels: mental, physical, emotional, hormonal.
And while all that is swirling around you, you are bound to encounter some other life challenges. At the time, you might connect these things to puberty, only to find out later it was something completely different.
<p>u/Xx_DarkSaber45_xX asked:</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/fro1xj/teenagers_of_reddit_what_did_you_think_was_part/" target="_blank">Teenagers of Reddit, What did you think was part of puberty but really something else?</a></p><p>Here were some answers.</p><p><br></p>
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It's Not Just A Mess Sometimes
<p>When I was a teenager, I always thought that having resentment towards my mom (single parent) was normal for that phase in life. Everyone told me I was just an over-reactive teenager, going through changes, "hypersentitive" and it would pass and one day I'll realize how lucky I am to have her. While I agree, she was a good mom; I still harbor a lot of resentment toward her over a lot of things, and my family was extremely toxic and would consistently diminish my feelings to make themselves feel better. </p><p>It wasn't just a teenage mess of emotions; these were real problems that my mom couldn't be bothered with. It was more important for her to be the victim, and that hasn't changed still 20 years later. Most people are on the outside looking in, and don't hear both sides of the story. Sometimes the smallest thing can lead to a life of depression, anxiety and self-deprecating. In other words, you're not just 'finding yourself' as a teenager. Life comes with constant growth and realizations; don't ignore your instinct because everyone is telling you otherwise.</p><p><span></span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/introvertonelmstreet/" target="_blank">introvertonelmstreet</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_36" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Still Unclear
<p>When I was about 14 I started to hear a crazy amount of people yelling at me inside my head. I would just be sitting on my bed or something and it would absolutely overcome me. I heard my parents and siblings and friends all at the same time yell at me things I've actually heard the week before and then everything in real life would be moving super fast and there was no way I could trick my mind into moving slow. I would actually move slowly but it would make it worse and I would just have to lay there and nothing would help... I attribute it to panic attacks but no one has ever been able to help diagnose it.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/fothermucker9999/" target="_blank">fothermucker9999</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_2" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Ain't Just The Hormones
<p>Insanely heavy, painful period. Massive weight gain. Being uncontrollably mean to my mom and then crying because I didn't know why I was being mean to my mom. My "puberty" was so bad my mom took me to all kinds of doctors. She felt like I was possessed and also dying. I physically could not get out of bed on my period. Turns out I have PMDD, bipolar disorder and an under active thyroid. I went on birth control at 11 to control the bleeding and mood swings. Mood stabilizers around 13 and then thyroid meds at 15 and life was much better.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/PorchCat1234/" target="_blank">PorchCat1234</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_3" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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The Vibrance Goes Down
<p>Losing the vividness and emotion of life. I thought society cherished and glorified childhood so much because everything feels so much more real and vivid back then. Turns out i just have a condition called derealisation lol</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/arsecheese77/" target="_blank">arsecheese77</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_4" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Some People Can't Handle The Truth
<p>I get extremely bad pains in my legs - which was suspected to be growth pains.</p><p>Multiple doctor visits later, without my mother as she never believed me, and I was told I have very weak tissues in my legs that often tear or get inflammed, and had to start physio to try build them up more.</p><p>My mother still thinks I'm lying, even though I have been diagnosed by professionals. It hurts.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/M-aio/" target="_blank">M-aio</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_5" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Being Isolated Forever
<p>I was feeling a very large disconnect from everyone around me, especially people my age. I constantly visualized being in a bubble separate from everyone else, and I had a hard time having conversations. But I just thought it was puberty, because I didn't want to self diagnose, and I figured everyone else felt the same.</p><p>Turns out it was Aspergers.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/SofieTheUsual/" target="_blank">SofieTheUsual</a></p>Though Sometimes These Go Hand In Hand
<p>Being always afraid is to talk to people, planning every word I will say to make sure I will not make any error, looking at every single detail of them to make sure I'm not saying anything wrong. Turns out I have social anxiety</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Stupidpizza69/" target="_blank">Stupidpizza69</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_6" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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'Twas The Cows
<p>That was when my lactose sensitivity kicked in. Milk always made me feel a little ill as a child but I thought it was normal. Then I started getting really sick and my parents didn't believe me, so I spent several years being forced to drink milk every day and feeling really sick but thinking it was the price of growing up.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/ThadisJones/" target="_blank">ThadisJones</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_7" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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The Price Of Identity
<p>The emergence of a deep seated anger towards my parents. Television and media showed me that conflicts between teen and parent was a normal part of growing up and my unidentifiable (at the time) anger was just raging hormones. It didn't help that my family would sigh at me citing my growing up as being the cause of the troubles. In some ways they were right.</p><p>Turns out I was just beginning to understand that my parents were controlling bullies and they felt threatened and wanted to knock me down harder the more I tried to have my own identity and boundaries. Teenagehood sucks for so many kids, they're just trying to figure life and themselves out and get stereotyped and invalidated by society at large just because of their age.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/throwawaytrifle/" target="_blank">throwawaytrifle</a></p><div data-conversation-spotlight style="min-height:90px"></div>
Just A Normal Virus
<p>Hi! Mom here, not a teen. My pre-teen had the flu a month or so ago (time means nothing right now). He ran to the bathroom and got sick. I grabbed what I could to comfort him and when he was done he asked me "is this puberty?!" I assured him it was just the flu. Puberty would suck too, but not like this.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/GidgetTheWonderDog/" target="_blank">GidgetTheWonderDog</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_8" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Young children are powerless little monsters. They depend entirely on their parents or guardians for food, warmth, hygiene, and emotional well-being.
Yes, that can be a total hassle. But there is something so endearing, so fulfilling about providing for such a vulnerable person. When that vulnerability has left and gone, that crash-down-to-earth feeling of a parent is palpable.
<p>The means that prove the great shift are varied. </p><p>Sometimes it’s a look in eyes. It can be behavior observed from far away.</p><p>Or maybe it’s a subtlety of speech: a sly new absence of permission- seeking can hammer it home too.</p><p>cyclone1865 asked, <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/flpv7i/parents_of_reddit_when_was_your_damn_my_kid_isnt/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">"Parents of Reddit, when was your 'Damn, my kid isn't a kid anymore' moment?"</a></p>
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When “Legal” is More Important than “Allowed”
<p>"I was on vacation in the Bahamas. Atlantis resort. I was in the casino at a video poker machine, and my daughter sat down at the machine next to me...drink in one hand and a cigarette in the other."</p><p>"For about a nanosecond I wanted to scold her, but then remembered that she was 20."</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/flpv7i/parents_of_reddit_when_was_your_damn_my_kid_isnt/fl02xkb?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">gogojack</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_36" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Wind Out of the Sails
<p>"When I was starting to get after my son about cleaning his room, and suddenly realized I was looking up at him." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/flpv7i/parents_of_reddit_when_was_your_damn_my_kid_isnt/fl00z7q?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">Sixthman27</a><span></span></p><p>"I'm 5'2. I'll be looking up at my toddler in no time." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/flpv7i/parents_of_reddit_when_was_your_damn_my_kid_isnt/fl1nb46?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">Zer_0</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_2" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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A Profound Absence of Question Marks
<p>"When my oldest just recently said, 'Mom, Dad, I'm moving. Here are my plans, this is who I'm moving in with, and here is how I'll handle my part of the bills.'"</p><p>"Hit me like a ton of bricks."</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/flpv7i/parents_of_reddit_when_was_your_damn_my_kid_isnt/fl0j3ng?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">tarnin</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_3" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Handing Over the Reins
<p>"Running through the Toronto airport trying to catch our flight that was leaving in 5 minutes. I hear 'Dad! Not that way, this way!'"</p><p>"She basically took charge from that moment on because she had a cooler head in that moment than I did."</p><p>"We made it to the plane with seconds to spare."</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/flpv7i/parents_of_reddit_when_was_your_damn_my_kid_isnt/fl0nsys?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">imk</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_4" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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He’s Who’s Driving the Bus
<p>"When he hugged me as I buckled into my airline seat -- then walked forward and entered the cockpit." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/flpv7i/parents_of_reddit_when_was_your_damn_my_kid_isnt/fl0li26?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">pullin2</a><span></span></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"Can't wait to do that. Give my mother a great big hug as a thanks for all the stress and hardship my piloting career is gonna give her when I start soon." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/flpv7i/parents_of_reddit_when_was_your_damn_my_kid_isnt/fl25uyp?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">tHaTwAsChEeSy</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_5" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Outdoing the Master
<p>"My boy who is 3 and a half years old fell in love with Mario kart when I play on the switch. On his 4th day of playing, he drifted." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/flpv7i/parents_of_reddit_when_was_your_damn_my_kid_isnt/fl0ucn7?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">JT_the_Irie</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"I spent my entire childhood not knowing you could drift, so he's like 15 years ahead of me."-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/flpv7i/parents_of_reddit_when_was_your_damn_my_kid_isnt/fl1cd6i?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">Sharpman76</a></p>Didn’t Even Feel the Need to Share About it
<p>"A local news channel interviewed my 16 year old son about how he was feeling about the schools in our area closing for a month due to the pandemic. Most of the interview clips they showed in the segment were from my son, but he didn't mention it to me." </p><p>"A relative sent me a link to the story that evening and I watched it three or four times, with tears in my eyes. His answers were so articulate and mature, and he looked so grown up and comfortable in front of the camera."</p><p>"It was kind of like seeing him through someone else's eyes and realizing all of the sudden that he's a young man, not really a kid anymore."</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/flpv7i/parents_of_reddit_when_was_your_damn_my_kid_isnt/fl1cgaf?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">VanswobbleTheRobber</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_6" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Proof is in the Plate
<p>"When I started plating four same sized plates of food for dinner." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/flpv7i/parents_of_reddit_when_was_your_damn_my_kid_isnt/fl0bv9w?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">ncconch</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"My daughter's nearly 2 and we're far from this stage at the moment. The other night however, we were eating a pasta bake. This girl would just not stop eating, demolished 2 portions then went on to start picking from my plate." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/flpv7i/parents_of_reddit_when_was_your_damn_my_kid_isnt/fl0uxvn?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">Flopper2k19</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_7" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Conveyed through Materials
<p>"I was separating laundry and I couldn't tell my wife's and my daughter's underwear apart." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/flpv7i/parents_of_reddit_when_was_your_damn_my_kid_isnt/fl0n1ts?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">theworldisaniceplace</a><span></span></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"My daughter is 8 and my wife wears sensible, comfortable britches. This is me everytime the laundry is done and the first time it happened it was just weird emotionally for me." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/flpv7i/parents_of_reddit_when_was_your_damn_my_kid_isnt/fl1829n?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">flperson</a></p><div data-conversation-spotlight style="min-height:90px"></div>
No Questions Asked
<p>"Besides the fact that he's made me a grandmother (with help from my lovely daughter in law, obviously), there was a recent family tragedy, and they really stepped up and took charge when it was needed."</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/flpv7i/parents_of_reddit_when_was_your_damn_my_kid_isnt/fl0pmmo?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">lost40s</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_8" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Apparently Mario Kart Milestones are Common
<p>"When she was 5, my daughter kicked my ass in Mario Kart. Tbh, I was rusty and she had been playing for months and had gotten quite good."</p><p>"I could see in her eyes that she lost a bit of respect for me that day."</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/flpv7i/parents_of_reddit_when_was_your_damn_my_kid_isnt/fl0g3eg?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">TheNameIsPippen</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_9" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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To Be Fair, She Sounds Like She Moves Fast
<p>"When she looked at me with disdain & said "take your money back" after the tooth fairy visited. She's 7." -- Pointer_Brother</p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"Mine was when my twin boys about the same age tried to scam the tooth fairy. They tried to kick each others teeth out. Luckily they told me they had lost a tooth when they got the first one out." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/flpv7i/parents_of_reddit_when_was_your_damn_my_kid_isnt/fl1sqyw?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">Ak_Lonewolf</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"See, my brother and I just lied about believing in the tooth fairy as long as we could to con my parents. She just gave up a goldmine." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/flpv7i/parents_of_reddit_when_was_your_damn_my_kid_isnt/fl0sa42?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">CultOfWawa</a></p>A Wake Up Call that Comes with an Image
<p>"The day I found my Unscented Lubriderm chilling on his nightstand. </p><p>"Oh. So that's now a thing." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/flpv7i/parents_of_reddit_when_was_your_damn_my_kid_isnt/fkzye4q?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">LittleMissWu</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"I would die a little inside. My son is that age. I'm wondering when or where I will find the evidence." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/flpv7i/parents_of_reddit_when_was_your_damn_my_kid_isnt/fl1y7fb?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">HotDem70</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_10" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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The Need for a Entirely New Logic
<p>"I don't remember exactly when or what had happened, but I was talking to my wife about something the oldest did and suddenly realized that I had to start punishing him differently."</p><p>"All of the kid things (taking away toys, go to your room, etc) wouldn't phase him anymore as he was no longer caring much about those things."</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/flpv7i/parents_of_reddit_when_was_your_damn_my_kid_isnt/fl0p8nx?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">CrustyBatchOfNature</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_11" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Dad Gets Into It With School Nurse After He Decides To Bring His Daughter Home From School When She Has Her Period
February 05 | 2020
A father and his husband raising a 13-year-old girl going through puberty surely comes with some challenges.
To save herself from embarrassment, their daughter would call to be picked up from school when she unexpectedly has her period.
<p>The last thing Redittor "aita_dadnurse" needed was listening to the school nurse lecturing him about parenting after she accused his daughter of being manipulative.</p><p>Dad had some contentious words while defending his daughter but now feels guilty.</p><p><strong>So he asked the "<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/ez2l16/aita_for_bringing_my_daughter_home/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">Am I the A$$hole</a>" SubReddit community if his frustration was warranted. </strong><br></p><blockquote><em>"My husband and I (both 40m) are raising a 13-y/o girl, to clarify."</em></blockquote><blockquote><em>"My daughter struggles every few months with her period. She's fine most of the time, but some months she gets her period unexpected at school, and it's embarrassing to her." </em></blockquote><blockquote><em>"She won't carry pads because they have clear backpacks, and she doesn't like wearing her own slightly bloody underwear for half a day—understandable."</em></blockquote><blockquote><em>"When she gets her period, she goes to the nurse with 'an awful stomachache' and I am called (I work from home so it's easier for me to get her.) Nurse always reminds me that she 'could be faking' but I always pick her up and bring her home."</em></blockquote><p><strong>When the OP went to retrieve his daughter, the nurse had some words.</strong><br></p><blockquote><em>"Yesterday, she called again, so I walked into school to get her and the nurse was waiting in the office. Nurse asked me if I was aware that my daughter had 'a pattern'." </em></blockquote><blockquote><em>"I told her yes, but that we had things figured out. Nurse said that if she's really having stomach problems like this, I should take her to the doctor, because she might have anxiety. I said 'thank you, but my husband and I have things figured out'."</em></blockquote><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">
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</p><blockquote><em>"Nurse got very cold. 'I don't think you're taking her anxiety seriously. Fathers are supposed to want what's best for their girls, and as a nurse I feel it's my duty to ensure she is safe.'"</em></blockquote><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">
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</p><blockquote><em>"This lit a fuse with me. Here's where I could be TA: I told the nurse 'I know my daughter better than you do. It is none of your business what her </em>stomach issues <em>come from unless a parent tells you.'"</em><br></blockquote><blockquote><em>"She then told me: 'I am afraid if she is not anxious she is manipulating you into bringing her home from school. Is there a class she dreads? Does she do her homework?'"</em></blockquote><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">
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</p><blockquote><em>"I said: 'My daughter is an honor roll student and an honest girl. I'm sorry you don't think so, but I know her and I know she's not lying to me. Stay out of our personal business.'"</em><br></blockquote><blockquote><em>"She turned over my daughter without saying much else."</em></blockquote><p><strong>The OP was forced to come up with an alternate plan to avoid future confrontations. <br></strong></p><p><strong>But his altercation with the nurse weighed on his guilty conscience.</strong><br></p><blockquote><em>"Daughter will now go to the bathroom and text me instead of the nurse—we'll just say she has 'an appointment.' I feel awful, though, for being ticked—the nurse is a professional who deals with awful parents daily, and I know she was just trying to help."</em></blockquote><p><strong>What followed was an interesting discourse about parenting, puberty and the pill.</strong></p><p><strong>This Redditor said "You're the a$$hole" (YTA), but explained that—unless she was suffering from a serious medical issue —saving her from distress every time sets her up for failure.</strong></p><blockquote><em>"YTA but hear me out. i'm sure she was only trying to help, and your daughter missing so much school is definitely an issue."</em></blockquote><blockquote><em>"she needs to carry some pads with her, maybe in a separate little decorative pouch so people can't tell what they are." </em></blockquote><blockquote><em>"throw some midol in there for the cramps. this is the hard part of being a woman, learning that life cannot completely stop every month when it comes." </em></blockquote><blockquote><em>"if there is a serious pain/discharge problem, she should visit an OB/GYN and if there isn't a serious problem, she should learn this lesson before she's fired from her first job for calling out sick every month." </em></blockquote><blockquote><em>"i realize how hard it is to not love on and nurture our babies when they're not feeling good but one woman's opinion, you're setting her up for failure by continuing the pattern without attempting to fix the issue."</em></blockquote><blockquote><em>"ETA i do think the nurse was a bit out of line by pressing the anxiety/manipulation dialogue but i still stand firm that you're unfortunately the AH here." – <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/ez2l16/aita_for_bringing_my_daughter_home/fgks8dt?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">taylorgone</a></em></blockquote><p><strong>Some users talked about how schools should provide for feminine hygiene products available for emergencies.<br></strong></p><blockquote><em>"At school they should be free especially if a student had an accident. Back at my old high school if a girl needed one cause it came early, leaked through, or ran out we had to buy 1 from the nurse. $1 for pads $2 for tampons."<br></em></blockquote><blockquote><em>"Never could understand why they made us pay when they knew a good size of the student body couldn't do that." – </em><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/ez2l16/aita_for_bringing_my_daughter_home/fglkpny?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank"><em>Batcow2106</em></a><br><strong></strong></blockquote><blockquote><em>"There was a lot of poor and homeless kids who's families couldn't afford to get pads/tampons where i grew up." </em></blockquote><blockquote><em>"I remember one classmate who used towel scraps and wash them in the gyms bathroom if no one was watching. In middle school some female teachers will give extra credit if students brought in those items to help out other students." – <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/ez2l16/aita_for_bringing_my_daughter_home/fgle9lb?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">Batcow2106</a></em></blockquote><blockquote><em>"Please do not blame the nurse. She is there earning a paycheck."</em></blockquote><blockquote><em>"If the school does not buy them... Can parents of females donate some to the school? Same as we donate supplies. As a teen I kept a back up pad and tampon in my locker." – <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/ez2l16/aita_for_bringing_my_daughter_home/fglcd8q?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">megabitch420</a></em></blockquote><blockquote><em>"That is some f'ing bulls**t tampons and pads shouldn't be classified as novelty items and thus not be so f'ing expensive." </em></blockquote><blockquote><em>"it's not like you can stop your period at will. People need them for basic f'ing hygiene and it is such bulls**t that they're not cheaper/free." – <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/ez2l16/aita_for_bringing_my_daughter_home/fglipq4?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">littreshbag</a></em></blockquote><p><strong>Some users suggested oral contraceptives as an alternative, as the estrogen and progestin in birth control pills are known for regulating menstrual cycles. </strong></p><blockquote><em>"you can't call out sick just because you don't feel like carrying menstrual supplies." </em></blockquote><blockquote><em>"If she's getting more severe than average cramps she should try going on the pill. It was life changing for my sister who was suffering in high school." – <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/ez2l16/aita_for_bringing_my_daughter_home/fgl0jdw?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">insomniac29</a></em></blockquote><blockquote><em>"The pill can also be great because it makes your periods regular like clockwork, so instead of carrying supplies around all the time you know the exact day it's coming." </em></blockquote><blockquote><em>"I used to mark my calendar for exactly when it would strike, months in advance." – </em><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/ez2l16/aita_for_bringing_my_daughter_home/fgl7zip?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank"><em>Errvalunia</em><br></a></blockquote><p><strong>However, there are some precautions to be aware of.</strong></p><blockquote><em>"There's a whole host of bulls**t that comes with going on the pill for some people, especially younger people." </em></blockquote><blockquote><em>"It should never be looked at as a quick fix for anything. If she doesn't want to fill her body with that s**t and she's not having sex, there's nothing wrong with taking an afternoon off from school once a month." </em></blockquote><blockquote><em>"I'm in my 30s and I take what I call a 'slow day' from work almost every month. I'm on birth control, but periods f'ing suck for some of us no matter what." – <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/ez2l16/aita_for_bringing_my_daughter_home/fgl9c6m?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">itsanincredibleegg<br></a></em></blockquote><p><strong>This user faulted the system and sided with the parent. </strong></p><blockquote><em>"This is an 'unintended consequence' of the rule that makes the kids use only transparent backpacks." </em></blockquote><blockquote><em>"I'm sure the school didn't intend to have a rule that seemingly discriminated against those girls that didn't want to advertise their periods to possibly every vulgar and immature boy in the school who may feel entitled to pass judgement, but it seems that to this pupil that's the result of this policy."</em></blockquote><blockquote><em>"The child has a right to her bodily autonomy, and this 'one size fits all' rule appears to have deprived her of that. Worse is the clueless nurse who instead of understanding the pubertal girls in her charge, decides to criticise this girl and her mother."</em></blockquote><blockquote><em>"There are definitely a$$holes in this story, but they're not the OP or her daughter." – <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/ez2l16/aita_for_bringing_my_daughter_home/fgldfjk?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">FeteFatale</a></em></blockquote><blockquote><em>"I actually disagree about the nurse being out of line."</em></blockquote><blockquote><em>"I was younger than OP's daughter but I used to go to the nurse's office constantly because of stomach pain to the point that my school asked my parents to go to the doctor." </em></blockquote><blockquote><em>"I actually did have anxiety (although my parents didn't realise it wasn't normal for an eight year old to have pain due to stress and I wasn't taken to a psychiatrist)"</em></blockquote><blockquote><em>"My point is that the nurse has been seeing this young lady struggle and the parents seemingly not doing anything." </em></blockquote><blockquote><em>"It's not like you said 'she sometimes gets bad periods and that's why I'm picking her up.' You just said you have everything under control - that's what my parents said when they didn't deal with my anxiety."</em></blockquote><blockquote><em>"So I'm completely on the nurse's side here!" – <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/ez2l16/aita_for_bringing_my_daughter_home/fgl7qst?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">JustHereToRedditAway</a></em></blockquote><p>It's easy to designate someone as the a$$hole, but there is usually more going on than what is immediately apparent.</p>
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