The autism friendly guide to periods

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Found this in my rss feeds. Is there really a need for it for females on the spectrum?


https://metro.co.uk/2019/03/30/periods- ... e-8857085/

I don't think saying that the vagina is the size of a travel tube of toothpaste is very accurate. You can fit a whole baby through it. I wanna see her squeeze a baby through a tube of toothpaste.

I don't know if this is needed or not. I learned this stuff back in the days when Kotex was called Simplicity. We got free packs of pads (that were huge. I rember Always bringing out thin pads a few years later and we all wanted them. Now they are normal.) and a little booklet. A video from the early 80s, which was dreadful. All educational stuff in the early 90s was do dated it's made me fascinated with the 80s. The contrast between 80s and 90s fashion was immense... I digress.

Anyway. It was all pretty straight forward to me. When you buy tampons they come with an instruction book and FAQs. If you read it you know what to do with them.

I found it weird her mum changed her pads I front of her.

This seems to be more for kids with comprehension difficulties than autism or for more severe autism. Its pretty obvious that you fold the wings around your pants to hold the pad in place.

I remember it took me along time to learn to cope with periods, but I'm not sure a booklet would have helped.
The issues for me were in the executive functioning area - just remembering expected period dates and being prepared, and remembering to keep myself clean and to realise when I was getting smelly.

I'm already a period pro honestly. Had this come out years ago when I needed it then it would have been more useful to me. Though to be truthful I don't think anything would have helped me back then because I used to bleed really heavy

Shouldn't this be in the woman's discussion?

It probably should be in the women's section , but as a man I'd be intruding to post in there.

An attempt via step by step-- ah, I forgot what is was called. The site, and minus tons of words.
It consists of pictures and specific actions, literally step by step, like, pull zipper down, then pull pants down, sit, and then pee. That kind of specific.

To be honest, I'm not sure overall really. It's likely not that autistics would need a special guide for their first period in most cases. I think the best guide, depending in the individual's inclination, is either the books or another (likely an adult and mature enough) female.


In my case, I've partially figured somehow what feminine products are for before my first period -- actually from advertisements and seeing said products at the mall. I barely learnt what puberty is at school or via books to be honest -- it's just words and pictures of puberty alone doesn't give me enough to process the concept.
By that time, I was still barely starting (if over 2 years is considered as starting) to learn the real concept of actual written verbal comprehension as opposed to, say, seeing written words and letters as mere patterns and shapes easily memorized with minimum contexts involved.

Therefore, if I seen the guide during those times, it's just a bunch of fragmented words and pictures to me. I'd just laugh at the pictures, only to recall at later date and realize contexts of the texts much, much later, even long after I ever had my first period.

Then my first period happened while I was asleep and my mom saw it. On a school vacation month. It saved me a lot of potential panic or whatnot. I was just that damn lucky.

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I started my periods at 13, but honestly period cramps were the worst pains I had experienced so far. I was as laid up with period cramps as most people are with the flu, and I had to rely on painkillers to get me through each period. I knew I couldn't carry on like that, so I went on the pill at 18 and been on it ever since. My periods are more bearable.

Men: If you want to know what period pains feel like, you know when you get bad cramps in your abdomen when you have diarrhoea? Period cramps feel like that, the same sort of cramp, but obviously in the ovaries and around the pelvic area too, not in the bowels of course. I don't know if other women think that, but it's the closest I can get to describing menstrual cramps to men. Just think of diarrhea cramps, 10 times worse. Ouch!