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Britt Julious remembers going to the nurse’s office in high school and joining the rows of girls lying on cots. They weren’t there because they had a cold or the flu. Like Julious, they were there because of their periods.

“It’s hard to be 15 or 16 years old and you’re trying to pay attention in algebra, and all you can think about is how you want to puke,” Julious, a 31-year-old writer in Chicago, told TODAY.

“I would come home from school because I couldn’t function. I couldn’t sit up in my chair.”

Julious was only 10 years old when she got her period. Soon after, intense cramps began and continued throughout her adolescence into adulthood, when she learned she had uterine fibroids.

Painful periods are a symptom of fibroids, or noncancerous growths in the uterus. But for many women, pain alone isn’t reason to see a doctor. In fact, numerous women told TODAY they were taught that pain is simply part of being a woman.

Now a new wave of doctors and organizations want to tell people that’s not true.

BUT FIRST, WHAT ARE FIBROIDS?

Fibroids are benign tumors in a woman’s uterus. They’re most common during a woman’s childbearing years, but can develop at any age. Fibroids can be as small as a seedling or bigger than a grapefruit, and women can have one, two, three or many.

Fibroids are common but doctors do not know why some women develop them. Genetics play a factor: Women with a family history of fibroids are more likely to develop them. And black women are especially at risk. Up to 80% of black women will develop fibroids before they turn 50, and up to 70% of white women will develop fibroids before they turn 50, according to research. For black women, fibroids are often more severe and occur earlier, according to Dr. Elizabeth Stewart, a fibroids specialist and professor of obstetrics and gynecology and surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.

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this is a universe where people have superpowers and there are talking trees but this person thinks having a smart teenage girl is unrealistic ok

Look at her opening doors to thousands of girls (if not more) around the world! 😍

This Nerd...

BF: We should use AI for everything we don't want to do or that tech can do more efficiently than us. Which is why I want a Roomba. Because I don't want to be hoovering when I could be doing something better with my time.

Me: That is a fair point.

BF: Plus we can train the cat to have rides on the Roomba.

Me: That's the real reason you want one isn't it?

BF: ... Possibly.

I love this ridiculous nerd.

To celebrate the release of How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World on February 1, why not download your own paper versions of Toothless and the Light Fury? And if you have a smartphone, they also breathe fire!

Here’s what you need:

Printables of the  Toothless  and  Light Fury  templates 

(Download and print Toothless and Light Fury)

Scissors to cut them out 

Glue

A smart phone

Click here to get your tickets now!

A father built a custom accessibility controller for the Nintendo Switch so that his disabled daughter could play Breath of the Wild

M78 in Orion.

Credit: Chad Quandt

Please stop trigger tagging with #epilepsy tw/cw/warning/etc.

I need every single person to understand how horrible tumblr’s tagging system is

I go into the tag for epilepsy and its all flashing lights. We can’t use our own tag because people without epilepsy fill it up with improper warnings.

Use ‘flashing’ in place of ‘epilepsy’ in your tags. You aren’t warning people of epileptics, you’re warning us of flashing lights. Please please tag properly. Epileptics say this endlessly and constantly and it’s ignored. You are risking lives by doing this.

Here’s proof of what I mean:

THIS POST IS 100% OKAY TO REBLOG, I ENCOURAGE PEOPLE WITHOUT EPILEPSY TO ESPECIALLY DO SO!

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