Parent and / or sibling in the exam room with you during a doctor visit

How did you feel about their presence there, especially as you got older? Did you find it comforting, embarrassing, annoying, or did you not really care?

 

I wanted to be alone mostly all thru if I remember right.....

One time though I had a girl doctor for a physcial... At first I didnt want her but no one else was available so I just let her...

 

I was hospitalised with a major knee ligament injury. A doctor came around with a small entourage of student nurses/doctors and asked if they could Q&A me about my injury and subsequent surgery/recovery. I had no objections and after some of the Q&A I was asked if I could show them my knee. I obliged by pulling back my blanket but ti my horror in so doing I inadvertantly pulled my gown up as well and they all had a flash of my genitals. This was extra embarrassing because my tiny penis was extra shrivelled due to the meds I was on.

 

I've been alone with the doctor during checkups since I was 7.

 

Same

 

Never had an issue with it. Both because it's a doctor's appointment, so the context itself begets an understanding that talking about personal issue and or being undressed is only about medical care, and because it's family -- also a context in which I've never felt any embarrassment over anything super personal.

 

As a matter of fact, the second precipitating event of my life that opened my eyes to the fact I'm genderqueer and want to be female was my sister and I being in the same room for our pediatric exams when we were little. Before anyone freaks the F out over that, my family was open with our bodies. We were little kids so no one thought anything weird about it and my dad took us together. So what was he gonna do with the other kid while one of us was having our check-up? So, he told the doctor it was fine to have us both in the room and just do one kid's exam and then the other one. And we were both fine with it. Most importantly, I now owe quite a bit to that having been the case and what it did to begin my journey of understanding my gender.

 

Maybe my parents were negligent, but, I never had exams that I would consider sensitive or embarrassing. The only doctor visits i went to were the dentist and the dermatologist (for acne).