when did you start puberty?

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I started puberty earlier than my classmates with the same age. It definitely embarrassed me at that time, I become a more closed-in person than before and developed prudery. Not just because the earlier puberty, but because the sense of lost childhood, too. I thought I grew up faster than I wanted to.

I went through puberty at average age, but people started expecting me to behave like an adult when I was only 14, yet now my cousin is 14 and she's still allowed to behave like a kid. But I wasn't even allowed to be a typical teenager - I was expected to act really grown-up, as though I was, like, 30. When I had a messy bedroom when I was 14, my family was like, ''oh I thought you'd have more of a grown-up room now,'' but now my younger cousin is 14 and her room is messy, and my family are like, ''ohh, a typical teenager's bedroom.'' Also, when I said I was mucking about at school with friends, my mum was like, ''why were you behaving like a 5 year old?'' but when my cousin came home from school and said that she was mucking about (doing something ever stupider than I remembered me doing), my family just smiled and, ''that's kids for you!''

Why couldn't I behave like a child much longer, and why was everybody getting onto me all the time, but now all of a sudden 14 year olds are allowed to still be children? (rhetorical question).

Around the age of seven or eight, I believe. I notice some others have listed their age of menarche; it was ten-and-a-half, in my case.