As someone with IBS - I don't have a choice a lot of the time! When you gotta go, you gotta go - regardless of where you are.

Wow, that's awful - I wonder what happened to her to make her feel that way. It really is normal, everyone does it.

High school kids can be so mean, especially girls and especially these days. I can understand that she maybe didn't want to do it when other people were around, but I think I would ask a teacher if I could use the bathroom during class then! Poor kid!

I won't poo in public restrooms, or at work, unless it is a dire emergency. I check for feet under the stall doors and wait for others to leave if necessary.

When I was in SECOND grade, I passed gas in the stall, and four or five girls out by the sinks laughed at me and picked on me all week. Here I am almost 37 years old, and it still sticks with me and causes me embarrassment.

I don't want anyone to hear, or notice in any way, what I'm doing in the restroom.

I'm like that... if I HAVE to go in a public restroom, I will wait until the restroom is completely empty and go as fast as I can and will flush as immediately as possible. It's just awful, luckily that hasn't happened too often.

I live in a house with 2 other women and I will go downstairs to go... they know it, too... if I suddenly get up and go downstairs, they'll say "Going to poop?" and laugh. I laugh along, we are close, I just can't do it. I don't know why I'm so weird about it.

If I'm in close quarters, like on a long weekend away with someone, I have noticed that I don't go at all, and then when I get home I have to go REALLY BAD. It's not done on purpose, my body just doesn't need to... I think i put a mental block on it years and years ago... so weird.

and yes, I'd rather throw up than poo near people.

I can understand and sympathize with the poor girl. I was terrified of using the restroom in high school. I absolutely hated it. There was ALWAYS someone in there, usually just cutting class or hanging out.

After high school, I don't know what happened, but I guess I just grew out of it. I realized that, yes, everyone has to do it and while I still don't like public restrooms, I will use them if I have to.

I do NOT poop in public restrooms. I have never made myself sick. I just am always sure to #2 before I go anywhere, and come home before I need to.

When I was in school, I would ask to go during class, lie about AF or whatever. That way there was almost no chance anyone would come in.

I used to pee so that it didn't make a noise. I was in elementary school. I guess I just thought it should make a noise? IDK what I was thinking. I don't care as much about hearing pee these days.

This is me, 100%. Except for me, it was in third grade. Two girls came into the bathroom, peeked under the stall, and said "EWWWW are you POOPING?!"

And, since then, I CANNOT poop in a public restroom. It's quite uncomfortable.

I didn't even know that would happen...if you held it so long that you'd throw up. Weird.

I'm pretty shameless about using public bathrooms for #1...I'm not one of those girls that will hold it until a cleaner option is available. Porta potties, creepy bathrooms behind gas stations, poppin a squat in the woods...all the same to me. I have hand sanitizer in my purse, lol. I'm more selective about when and where I #2 though. I PREFER to be in the privacy of my own home with nobody around, but when nature calls, it calls. I'll do my business if I need to.

oh poor girl, I'm sure that didn't go over well with how mean kids are today.

uhmm.. I was the same way in highschool, but I never had to go that bad and was able to wait till I got home. Sometimes I was too scared to even pee, worrying someone would hear and my body would just not let me pee even if I knew I had to really go. I never threw up because of it. I guess it's just being potty shy. Sure you could try going when noone else was in the bathroom, but someone could come in at any moment. And girls were so catty back then..especially the ones that used the bathroom to smoke. "What? you are using the bathroom to poo and not smoke? you look like a loser, lol." that's what it was like back then, not sure how much has changed these days.

i can totally relate to this!

From grade 1 through 12 (australian school) i did not do that ONCE.

I have trained my body this way to only go in the afternoon around 4 pm (hence after school)

My brother and sister have both confessed to the same thing. For me i just didn't want anyone to walk in afterwards and have to smell it!!

I hated walking into the toilets to pee an it stunk - to me it was just embaressing.

Now however if i gotta go i gotta go! but i can defintly still wait!

In my old high school while sitting with a group of my female classmates we somehow got into the topic of how often each of us poop. One girls said she only poops once a week, another said she poops every three to four days, and pretty much every girl had the same story that they barely poop ever. Then I come out and say, 'I poop like every day.' They looked at me like I was a freak and they told me that I was disgusting.


The way I see it they were ether lying or they have some serious digestive problems.


I don't understand why there is a stigma attached to pooping for females to the extent that some will even deny that they do it. It's Natural!

Anyway...I'm going to go take a poop....duces

Me - I'm also aussie and I probably had a problem pooping when other people can hear when I was younger.

If they are going less than once every two days they are probably not eating enough roughage - fresh fruits & veges. If this keeps up they are increasing their risk of bowel cancer - as they are letting toxins stay in their bodies too long.

When I was 21 I had to have my large intestine cut out (have such bad genetics for bowel cancer I had to have cut out before Cancer struck). Now I poop once or twice a day, and it's probably a little looser than before. I've lost all my inhibitions about pooping since my operation. I also fart lots more but not stinkys. I went away with a group of girlfriends a couple of years ago, and one girl commented that one of us farted lots in our sleep... I admitted to it and laughed a bit about it and explained why, and she felt terrible for making fun of me.

Have a male friend who has some other sort of medical problem and he stinks out the bathroom when he goes, so sometimes he'll warn us he needs to go, so we can get in before he stinks out the place.

I think learning to face up to being made fun of is an important part of Character building whilst growing up. I noticed that the girls who weren't picked on at school were the ones most likely to be lost once they didn't have people telling them what to do or didn't have people who were bothered by their banter.

Maybe the school should have a pep talk for the girls... if you don't go when you gotta go, you will either pee or puke in public which is more embarrassing and revolting.

I know most of my hatred of pooping in public places comes from an incident when I was little. I was only maybe 4 years old, at the most, and we went to some event at our school (which was a religious school, so you would think people would be nice there). Anyway, my stomach hurt so I went into the bathroom, and my sister and some other kids, boys and girls, came in too and were looking over and under the stall door and teasing me while I hugged my teddy bear and pooped my poor little brains out. It was definitely an experience that taught me that pooping was a gross and shameful thing, and that if anyone knew I was pooping, I would be subject to ridicule. This poor girl may have had a similar experience, although, it could just be like I stated before, high school girls are just mean!