Thread by @SupernovaMomma, Look. As someone who was poor and homeless as a teenager. Yes [...]

Look. As someone who was poor and homeless as a teenager. Yes the reuse of pads is done. So is using rags. I did it all. It's horrible and i don't like to think about it. Im sure thats true for most who did it

I've spoken to @itsLeeYuh only about the things we dont talk about in leaving poverty. There are many lessons in hygiene I had to learn because there wasnt a need or ability to be taught them in poverty

Things people take for granted. I didnt know you should change out your underwear until i was an adult. We struggled with having underwear, then having a space to clean them.
I had to do a lot of things that make my skin crawl now. Poverty is dehumanizing sometimes

I knew you should floss but i dont think i had floss until i bought it myself as an adult. I didnt know about regularly changing sheets. We usually only had one sheet and no washer.... just so many things i had to learn that seem so simple now

I came to Spelman College with every possession I owned and I remember people thought I was boujie and doing too much not knowing it was everything I had and my HS sweetheart's family was handing me off to college and to figure it out. Thank God for my roommate and her family

Hi, I’m Tash. I made it through & now I blog about Black motherhood (Breastfeeding, babywearing, baby-led weaning, cloth diapers),PPD, Montessori at home, Positive Parenting, Autism awareness and normalization, & our Black milennial family dynamic on my IG http://instagram.com/Supernova_momma