“I was fourteen when I first realized there was a big secret to be learned. My parents would speak in whispers about people. They would drop their voices when explaining something briefly and mysteriously. They would turn down the volume and stand in front of the TV screen during movie time.”
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“I would fake a period every month so that I wouldn’t get in trouble. I didn’t get my first real period until I was 13. Even then I wasn’t any more ready for it than I was when I was ten.”
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“My sexual education was completely nonexistent. I remember that there was a book on one of the living-room bookshelves entitled ‘Preparing For Adolescence.’ I don’t know if the book was intended to prepare parents or children, but neither my parents nor I ever read that book.”
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“I’ve struggled with depression since puberty. That’s about as far back as I remember anyway. At the time, I had no words for what I was feeling/going through, my parents dismissed it as ‘adolescence.’ I thought it was normal — normal to hate myself as viscerally as I did and continued to (on new deeper levels as time went on).”
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Homeschoolers Anonymous 