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bluehawkxs t1_ixkz05s wrote

I was 14. It was summer. Everyone was going swimming. I really wanted to go too but had my ragtime. While everyone went to the pool down the street, I went into my mom's bathroom and looked for a tampon. Never used one before. Didn't know how they worked. It was a plastic applicator type. So I unwrapped it and then slid it in. But it stuck out about 2 inches. I kept pushing it in but it would only go so far. Those 2 inches of plastic wouldn't just disappear in me. So I put my bathing suit on and it tented out. I didn't know what to do, so I just went to the pool. I was really self-conscious about the whole tenting thing. Was going on the diving board and really aware that people have to notice. Til finally my sis came up and asked me what's going on down there. I told her and she explained the plastic part isn't supposed to stay in. Nice memory I get to have on the tribulations of being a chick.

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improvmama101 t1_ixllytt wrote

I was in middle school and going to the pool with family and got my period. I was so desperate to swim that I asked my aunt to put the tampon in for me. Smh

Looking back I feel really stupid for this. That aunt was a team player though. I asked my aunt because my mom never and still has never used a tampon.

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TolUC21 t1_ixmayn1 wrote

I don't think that's anything at all to be ashamed of. I'm sure your aunt didn't even think twice about helping you out.

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Minejack777 t1_ixmm5ol wrote

Exactly. There's no reason to feel ashamed about it, and honestly I'm sure their aunt is touched that they'd trust them enough to ask for them to help them :)

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BunBunny_draws t1_ixmn9a9 wrote

Just reminds me of that one time two girls in my children's home were having a conversation (my roommate and one other) and the not-roommate mentioned not knowing how to use tampons so my roommate dragged her to the bathroom to show her how, since both happened to be on their period. I could just hear things like "no, not like this! Further down" and "I see, that's very convenient" and was laughing my ass of at their conversations.

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PDNH t1_ixlo4dx wrote

I couldn't get the courage to properly use a tampon, so I decided to just... Lay it down on my swimsuit. Like that helped at all 🤦

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rckrusekontrol t1_ixlubzx wrote

So, I take it that evening you prepared a bindle, and in the dead of night hiked to the train tracks, and you’re a train hopper now, only friend is the endless rails, no, not that tampon-tent-girl at all…

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ashesehsa t1_ixog0ct wrote

Funny I didnt have too much of a problem putting the tampon in for the first time, but completely freaked out when I had to take it out. I guess I had expected it to slide right on out, not realizing it expands inside. I was convinced it was "stuck" and if I gave it a good yank that I was going to pull my organs out along with it or something. Thankfully my mom helped talk me through it ! I was so effing scared at the time though!

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Tiny_sock1234 t1_ixnfkq2 wrote

My periods were pretty unpredictable when I was young so one time on our family trip overseas I got my period and I didn't have any pads with me. It was unusually rough that time. So blood was running down my thighs. I locked myself in the hotel bathroom for an hour and was sooo embarrased at the time. Later that day we went swimming and I had to use a tampon for the first time. I was crying because it hurt and I couldn't get it in. Then I fainted alone in the bathroom/changing room on the beach. My mom wasn't much of a help. Safe to say I haven't used tampons a lot after that. It was kind of traumatizing😂

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r0ckH0pper t1_ixmn6kn wrote

Da Boyz tent too! Super embarrassing for a normal body event

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NeedsMoreTuba t1_ixn5l86 wrote

I did the same thing when I was 13 but my tampon fell out in the pool.

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