This is what it's like to start your period at age seven

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This is what it's like to start your period at age seven
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'Shorts in hand, I approach my mother and ask, “What’s this?”.'

Aged just seven, Aurora had no idea what was going on It was a lazy Saturday morning in 2009 when I vividly remember experiencing what I thought was a stomach ache. Suddenly, I’m in the bathroom looking puzzledly at my white shorts that were not so… well, white anymore. Shorts in hand, I approach my mother and ask, “What’s this?” as if she painted them red on purpose. Dumbfounded, she panics and calls 111. Ironically, they panic too. Aged just seven, I had no idea what was going on.

I kept changing the type of pill to better these symptoms, but nothing worked and in September 2022, I realised that mentally and physically the pill just wasn’t for me. Of course, I relied on the pill and was scared to go off it. But I no longer wanted artificial hormones running free in my body. It was enough at seven years old, let alone now. I also wanted to find out why I had such horrendous periods in the first place.

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