Periods don't limit you, but your mentality does”.
India is a country where biology teacher skips the topic called ‘menstruation’. Where buying alcohol and cigarettes are easy, but buying sanitary napkins is called shameful??
When a girl goes to a chemist shop to buy sanitary napkins, she gets an awkward look by the chemist. She gets sanitary napkins wrapped in newspaper with black polythene as if she's buying drugs.
It feels like girls, women are menstruating illegally and feels shameful at times having many restrictions imposed.
We live in a country where we don't get informed about menstruation earlier by our parents before we get our first period.
Where we are not allowed to talk about periods to opposite gender.
Where millions of females have least knowledge about proper menstrual hygiene.
Where females still use that unclean and unhygienic cloth. They don't have access to sanitary pads. And excess use of cloth can lead to rashes and itching in those sensitive areas resulting into harmful diseases.
Some even don't know what tampons and menstrual cups are??
They think, why to use sanitary napkins only once a while when we can reuse that cloth and wear it infinite times?? This kind of mentality must be changed.
Neither parents nor our education system educate us properly about menstruation, masturbation, penetration... They just skip this part and we are grown having partial knowledge about it.
Do you know from where girls get to hear about periods?? From cousin sisters, close friends. But not from our own parents.
Some girls even gets shocked during their first periods. Why am I bleeding? What's happening? Back pain, stomach ache, head ache, acne, public hair, vaginal discharge.. Many questions arises.
People even don't know many sanitary napkins brands apart from whisper and stay free.
Even when a girl feels excess pain, she's told to tolerate it and get habituated to it. And not to make a big issue about it.
“Periods are normal but period pain is not”. There is also a disease called dysmenorrhea, which can occur when you have excess period cramps.
What are the symptoms of dysmenorrhea?
Aching pain in the abdomen (pain may be severe at times)
Feeling of pressure in the abdomen
Pain in the hips, lower back, and inner thighs.
And yes mostly people know only about pcos and pcod and not about dysmenorrhea.
“Yes we bleed and that's why you exist”. And there's no need to whisper your pain!!