An autistic woman has discovered that faking your period to get out of sports still works years after secondary school, according to sources.
Ima Onwugbenu, 39, was recently invited to play squash by her work colleague, 35-year-old Ryan Wilkins. Worried she’d be talked into it, Onwugbenu reportedly pretended that she was going to be on her period for the rest of the week, the following weekend and the entirety of December.
Onwugbenu said: “That should not have worked on a grown man. But it used to work on my PE teacher Mr. Albington every single week of Year 10. He never stopped to question whether a girl having her period every week for a year should be going to hospital instead of organising the supply cupboard.”
“Ryan looked devastated when I told him,” she continued. “Turns out it was on my behalf. He was genuinely apologetic that I wouldn’t get to experience what he called ‘the joy of squash’.”
Wilkins commented: “I feel so sorry for Ima. I just know she’s pining for the squash court.”
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