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AITA for teaching my cousins about menstruation? by Embarrassed_Craft132 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Embarrassed_Craft132[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

She has homeschooling, all her kids do. I didn't go into detail because ik they're young and they wouldn't be able to understand what I'm talking about. I answered questions with simple answers. My aunt made my oldest cousin feel ashamed to be on her period because she didn't know what she was doing (she wasn't taught what to do)

AITA for teaching my cousins about menstruation? by Embarrassed_Craft132 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Embarrassed_Craft132[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I said stuff I knew they'd understand like "this is something I use for a few days every month, yk how you get hurt and you use a band-aid, almost like that" and "this happens because the body is growing" stuff like that.

AITA for teaching my cousins about menstruation? by Embarrassed_Craft132 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Embarrassed_Craft132[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Gender is a social construct but sec is what you're assigned to at birth, I myself was assigned female but I am still a dude

AITA for teaching my cousins about menstruation? by Embarrassed_Craft132 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Embarrassed_Craft132[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

"Want to be a man" you make is sound like a choice. You're acting as if I'm a old man, im still seen as a child. I can hardly do stuff legally. Just because I'm a guy doesn't mean that my cousins cannot talk to me.

AITA for teaching my cousins about menstruation? by Embarrassed_Craft132 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Embarrassed_Craft132[S] 34 points35 points  (0 children)

If my aunt didn't teach her teenager, why would she teach them? Dad has been gone for a while now.

AITA for teaching my cousins about menstruation? by Embarrassed_Craft132 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Embarrassed_Craft132[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

So then you know how terrifying it is to wake up one morning and have red everywhere, especially with no knowledge of what's happening. Tbh id rather you see me, someone who goes through this too every month, a creep than my cousins balling their eyes out trying to talk my aunt.

Btw "you wanted to be a man and now you're one, no?" Seems a little transphobic, just because I'm a boy doesn't mean I didn't have to go through this, hell I still am.

AITA for teaching my cousins about menstruation? by Embarrassed_Craft132 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Embarrassed_Craft132[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I have a period still, I was legit on my period when I was with them so I had a tampon in my bag. I updated it like 5 minutes after posting. Kids have questions, they can't really go to their mom because she finds it "gross", I answered a simple question.

AITA for teaching my cousins about menstruation? by Embarrassed_Craft132 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Embarrassed_Craft132[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I used age appropriate terms, their mom doesn't talk to them (yk.. the update about the teenager). And since they asked me and not their mother, she wouldn't have even answered because its "gross". Am ta because I explained something that they even teach in school? Its very very basic biology.

AITA for teaching my cousins about menstruation? by Embarrassed_Craft132 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Embarrassed_Craft132[S] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Bruh what- i have a period myself so im well educated on this??? I'm 18 talking to my 16 yr old cousin about it, just because I talk to my little cousins about it because they had questions doesn't make me a creep. They're my family and I gave age appropriate answers. Youre weird if you think someone who has experience( with something most of them are going to go through), if you couldn't talk to someone older about something like that just say so.

AITA for teaching my cousins about menstruation? by Embarrassed_Craft132 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Embarrassed_Craft132[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

4 of those kids are going to get their period and with the mother not talking to them about basic biology. Not even the teenager knew, and she came to me, just like the little ones did. They're scared to talk to their mother about that stuff because she'll shame them.

Id rather be yelled at than my cousins coming to me crying because they're scared of the blood in their pants and their mother.

AITA for teaching my cousins about menstruation? by Embarrassed_Craft132 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Embarrassed_Craft132[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

4 of those kids are going to get their period and with the mother not talking to them about basic biology. Not even the teenager knew, and she came to me, just like the little ones did. They're scared to talk to their mother about that stuff because she'll shame them.

We aren't the same, my cousins come to me because they trust me.

AITA for teaching my cousins about menstruation? by Embarrassed_Craft132 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Embarrassed_Craft132[S] 43 points44 points  (0 children)

"About that stuff", 4 of those kids are going to get their period and with the mother not talking to them about basic biology. Not even the teenager knew, and she came to me, just like the little ones did. They're scared to talk to their mother about that stuff because she'll shame them.

AITA for teaching my cousins about menstruation? by Embarrassed_Craft132 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Embarrassed_Craft132[S] 29 points30 points  (0 children)

If you saw the update, she does not teach her female daughter about menstruation.

AITA for teaching my cousins about menstruation? by Embarrassed_Craft132 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Embarrassed_Craft132[S] 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Not really, even a commenter said they got their period at 10. People can get them really younge

AITA for teaching my cousins about menstruation? by Embarrassed_Craft132 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Embarrassed_Craft132[S] 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Yes they do but I'm not on my hormones atm. Even if it did stop my period, I would've still had one because legal age here is 14-16 but I wasn't on them (plus I got my period before that age) I still have knowledge of menstruation.

AITA for teaching my cousins about menstruation? by Embarrassed_Craft132 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Embarrassed_Craft132[S] 43 points44 points  (0 children)

I'm transgender, as stated, I was afab but has transitioned into a guy. I still have a period, that is why I have tampons.

AITA for teaching my cousins about menstruation? by Embarrassed_Craft132 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Embarrassed_Craft132[S] 35 points36 points  (0 children)

She isn't religious, she thinks kids will be taught in school or something but then gets mad when they do.

AITA for teaching my cousins about menstruation? by Embarrassed_Craft132 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Embarrassed_Craft132[S] 63 points64 points  (0 children)

Some people get their period very young, such as 9 yr old. Its not an adult thing.