when did you start puberty?

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Nine.

I started when I was nine.
So did One-winged-angel.

Well...Define puberty.

Maybe ten, or eleven. But on what occasion is it considered to start?

late for age

Nine. Too early! Did others here find puberty very difficult? I thought my hate of it was due to my Aspie tendencies.

I started periods aged 11, and have not changed at all physically since I was 14.

This is one of the reasons we need to stop polluting the planet - early puberty is not nice. I think it contributes to eating disorders.

I started nicely and neatly at the age of 12! In fact, it was in the summer vacation between primary school and secondary school that the >cough< hairgrow started. From there, puberty followed its traditional course.

I did find puberty difficult... especially the emotional aspects of it, which are quite often underestimated. I felt as though my brain had turned into an incoherent soup by the time I was 14. I had a hard time dealing with mood swings, and I hated that my brain seemed to be rebelling against myself.

14, almost 15. I was real late in starting.

i didnt start hitting puberty until i was 16 and half about 17. but doctors still say im 6 years behind developmentally.

I was freakishly early. My hair started going greasy at the age of 8 and my skin was already getting teenager-ish. I had boobs by the age of 10.
My periods were quite late compared to most for some reason, I was 13 1/2 by the time they started.

I'm not so sure it's pollution or toxins. A current theory about early puberty in girls is due to the abundance of food. The more food one eats, the more fat they accumulate, and the body thinks that it's ready for reproduction. That scenerio makes sense in my mind. If the body has little fat, then the body delays puberty until a later time when the woman might, for lack of a better word, survive childbirth and breast feeding- until the child can eat solid foods. Mind you, this is in the context of comparing a woman from 5,000 years ago to the woman of today

For me, I think it started at 14, and hasn't finished

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That's why I say I had a very mild case of precocious puberty. At age nine my nipples started to stick out from my chest and then I had wetness down there in my pelvis area. I say it could have been worse because I could have started at age seven budding and then getting pubic hair down there and getting my period at age eight or nine or ten. I read in a article in a Time magazine when I was 15 that even kids young as seven have started getting pubic hair down there. But precocious puberty is more common in African Americans than whites. I have seen a very few seven year old with breasts. Even when I was seven there was this girl in my home room class who had small boobs and she was seven and tall for her age. When I was eight, there was a girl in my class who was fat and she had breasts and wore a bra.

I heard kids are entering puberty at an earlier age these days.

I dunno. I first masturbated thanks to a Girls Gone Wild commercial at 11 so lets go with that.

I started puberty at age 11. But I was also overweight.

When I was 13-14, I think.
Later than most, but I wasn't complaining; I dreaded the start of puberty.

My 2 boys on the autism spectrum are both hitting puberty right now, at the same time. One is 11 and the other is 9. Talk about young.

I have studied puberty quite a bit, and i can say that 8 is the early end of normal for females, and if I remember correctly, 10 is normal for males.

Also, females who are overweight can start earlier as it is common for the bodies of either sex to produce a larger than normal amount of estrogen, even in youth. In girls, the amount of excess estrogen may be enough to initiate puberty. In males this excess estrogen can cause increased feminine qualities.

I will be going through a second puberty soon, to try and reverse damage caused by my first, as is the joy of being transexual.