Adventures in incontinence

When You Laugh So Hard You Pee

You try to cover it up

Christine Schoenwald
3 min readDec 24, 2021

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Photo by Gabrielle Henderson on Unsplash

I was 11-years-old when I sat on my neighbor’s sprinklers while they were on; I didn’t want my friends to know I had laughed so hard I peed. It was an effective diversion, but then we were kids, and it was wacky enough behavior to get a laugh, not an investigation.

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Christine Schoenwald

Writer for The Los Angeles Times, Salon, Next Avenue, Business Insider, and Your Tango Christineschoenwaldwriter.com