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alrightanakin:
I’m always so baffled when the Main Female Character in something has been “throwing up in the mornings” and she thinks it’s “just a stomach bug!!!” like shit..,.buddy……,I get nervous when my period is just slightly off. Or. If I feel just a little bit nauseous in the morning hours. and ya girl hasn’t slept with anyone in a year. how do you, Miss I Recently Slept With The Guy Whom I Love But It’s Complicated™, not immediately jump to (the right) conclusions
I dunno, I’ve been menstruating like clockwork since 1990 and in a LTR with a cis dude and off birth control for like a decade and ive only had one pregnancy scare (as in, one instance of a mistake that could have resulted in a fertilized egg) in all that time, and I’ve never actually thought I was pregnant. (I have a lot of Anxieties, I just don’t have that one.) Meanwhile this morning even though all last week I was like “lately I get my period on the tenth of the month better remember” I looked at the calendar, tried to remember why June 10th meant anything, sat at my desk for an hour just now thinking oh huh I think I have to potty, lemme just finish this, ugh my tummy kind of hurts, I don’t deserve this, everything is terrible. And was ASTONISHED when I finally went to the ladies’ room and discovered that of course, the one regular thing in my life has happened and these underpants will never be the same. So I imagine if I ever had actually gotten pregnant… well, let’s just say, I can see not catching on to the obvious. But I am tired of the trope always going one way. Of my baby-carrying friends, about half were varying degrees of surprised, and probably the other half were the type who knew within like five minutes. (One friend at probably eighteen hours pregnant woke her husband from a sound sleep by assaulting his beard with a washcloth because it “smells disgusting”. They did not require a pregnancy test.)
alrightanakin:
I’m always so baffled when the Main Female Character in something has been “throwing up in the mornings” and she thinks it’s “just a stomach bug!!!” like shit..,.buddy……,I get nervous when my period is just slightly off. Or. If I feel just a little bit nauseous in the morning hours. and ya girl hasn’t slept with anyone in a year. how do you, Miss I Recently Slept With The Guy Whom I Love But It’s Complicated™, not immediately jump to (the right) conclusions
I dunno, I’ve been menstruating like clockwork since 1990 and in a LTR with a cis dude and off birth control for like a decade and ive only had one pregnancy scare (as in, one instance of a mistake that could have resulted in a fertilized egg) in all that time, and I’ve never actually thought I was pregnant. (I have a lot of Anxieties, I just don’t have that one.) Meanwhile this morning even though all last week I was like “lately I get my period on the tenth of the month better remember” I looked at the calendar, tried to remember why June 10th meant anything, sat at my desk for an hour just now thinking oh huh I think I have to potty, lemme just finish this, ugh my tummy kind of hurts, I don’t deserve this, everything is terrible. And was ASTONISHED when I finally went to the ladies’ room and discovered that of course, the one regular thing in my life has happened and these underpants will never be the same. So I imagine if I ever had actually gotten pregnant… well, let’s just say, I can see not catching on to the obvious. But I am tired of the trope always going one way. Of my baby-carrying friends, about half were varying degrees of surprised, and probably the other half were the type who knew within like five minutes. (One friend at probably eighteen hours pregnant woke her husband from a sound sleep by assaulting his beard with a washcloth because it “smells disgusting”. They did not require a pregnancy test.)
