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Your PMDD Primer: A Necessary Guide to an Under Researched Disorder

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Author:  Sara Traynor Other people had to have been struggling with this, right? There was no way I was the only one. But if that was true, then why didn’t I – or anyone else I knew, for that matter – know about it? Why had I wasted years of my life pushing people away, feeling miserable, and not even understanding why? I’m going to make sure that nobody else has to go through what I did. Ever since I got my period at age 12, my pre- menstrual symptoms have been intense. It was like clockwork: for about a week and a half every month, I couldn’t get out of bed. I couldn’t focus on the simplest tasks. Even the most minor inconveniences or disagreements could send me spiraling: my suddenly overwhelming anxiety made mountains out of molehills. And then, within the first couple days of my period, the cloud lifted. I could breathe again. At first, I thought this was normal. All the descriptions of PMS I could find described symptoms like the ones I was experiencing. Fati
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Asexuality: Are You Aware?

It’s the last week of October and you know what that means! Time to talk about asexuality. Well—anytime is fine to talk about it, actually, but every year, Asexuality Awareness Week falls in late October (it runs from October 24 to 30 this year). This is a chance to learn more about what asexuality really is and how to support people who identify as asexual (or “ace”). I wanted to better understand asexuality as a sexual orientation . Yes, it’s considered a sexual orientation! Especially after my friend Cori*, 17, who identifies as asexual and aromantic, told me, “The general population doesn’t see asexuality the same way they see (other) LGBTQ + identities.” I wondered—why don’t people seem to talk about or understand asexuality as much as they might other orientations? What I Didn’t Know Prior to learning more about it, I thought asexuality just meant that a person had no sexual or romantic feelings. I didn’t realize that having romantic and sexual feelings are not the same thi
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Dreaming of Queer Futures: Scarleteen Pride 2022

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Author:  Sam Wall Welcome to our third digital Pride, Queer Futures, of June 18th and 19th, 2022! To kick off our celebration, I wanted to share all the cool stuff we have planned for the coming weekend, and to say a few words about why we chose this theme. I'm so excited to welcome everyone to our third digital Pride, Queer Futures! To kick off our celebration, I wanted to share all the cool stuff we have planned for the coming weekend, and to say a few words about why we chose this theme. Let's start with the fun stuff. Want to know what to look forward to, and when to check out the Scarleteen site and social media channels for the events you're excited about? Here's the schedule! Saturday, 6/18 10:00 AM EST : Pride kicks off with a raffle on  Twitter  and Instagram! Tell us your vision of a queer future using either of those channels, and tag it with #ScarleteenPride for a chance to win a big bundle of goodies! 10:30 AM EST : Get pumped up with o
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