Your menarche means your first menstruation (obviously a female poll, unless you're a freak of nature).
The latest centuries recorded a decline in the age when girls got their first period. It used to be around 13, now it's around 12 or even earlier.
When you got your first period, did your mother or someone else explain to you what it was? Did it freak you out?
I got mine at late 13 and I knew some things about it from girls who got it earlier. My mother didn't tell me all that much, just that it was a normal thing and it meant I was becoming a woman and able to have children, but that I shouldn't have sex yet.
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