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[quote=Anonymous]My lifelong experience with my period is that it absolutely limits my energy levels for at least a couple days a month, and also increases irritability and moodiness for 3-4 days a month. So actually, yes, it impacts my life for about a week every month and pretending it doesn’t dies not help me.

What does help is an acknowledgment, from myself and those closest to me, that this is happening and being realistic about what it means. If I’m irritable due to my period starting in a couple days, let’s not have a serious discussion about our family budget that day— let’s save it for a few days later. And if I’m on day 1 or 2 of my period, I’m going to go to bed earlier and will bow out of certain activities for which I don’t have energy.

Exercise is important, but I am more likely to do yoga or shorter workouts around my period, since I’m tired and experience muscle soreness and abdominal cramps. I take greater care with my diet, too, making sure I’m getting plenty of protein and iron.

Even professional female athletes have started paying attention to how their period impacts training and performance, and will adjust diet and training schedules to accommodate it. This was a story during the women’s World Cup in 2019.

Teaching young women that their period has no impact on them at all, that you can just ignore it, is part of this weird misogyny where women and girls are expected to downplay or ignore normal female experiences like menstruation, pregnancy, post-partum, and menopause, as though they aren’t happening, because men don’t experience them and we’re supposed to act like men. But these things do happen, we should practice care and awareness. [/quote]

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