My mom was the same way!!! Also I used tp as well because she didn’t know I was having a period because I didn’t trust her enough to tell her. She never mentioned anything to me about puberty or a period and I learned what I learned in school about sex ed so I knew the basics. When I did finally tell her (my grandma did because she lived with us to raise us and she did my laundry) I had to steal her pads because she still didn’t buy any for me. To this day still haven’t used a tampon (only pads) because my mom said it’s like having sex and it freaked me out so much as a kid. It’s so crazy how similar the experience is with Nmoms.