when did you start puberty?

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I developed breasts at 9 1/2 and started bleeding at 10 1/2. I stopped growing in height at 10-11. Since I have never had any interest in looking at my body I don't know when the hair appeared.

It was hell! I hated the things that happened to my body; I didn't want those things there. It also made me even more of a target for bullying and harassment.

I didn't feel any different mentally. I never went through any more ups and downs than I did prior to puberty.

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Pubic hair - 10
Armpit hair - 10
Voice dropped - 10
First had sexual arguers - 10
First felt love - 12
Facial hair - 14
Chest hair - 14
Stopped growing - 14+ (I'm still growing now)

Hmm.. I was thinking more the physical aspects. But the mood swings weren't good. I still have mood swings, and I think that's just how i am - my mood varies a lot. But when I was 13/14 or so they were pretty bad, I see it as my usual mood swings aggrivated by puberty. I remember a friend bought me a drink in Starbucks and I didn't expect him to and I suddenly got really angry and started yelling idiotic comments.


It is only a theory that it's linked to pollution. And I wasn't overweight but I was biggish so maybe it is weight. But pollution isn't doing us any good and I think if there is chance it may be linked to early puberty then it's another good reason to reduce pollution!



Yeah that's what I hear. I have heard (although it may not be true) that it's been dropping since the industrial revolution. Girls dropping faster than boys. I wouldn't really call what you or I experienced 'precocious' as many girls, sadly, start at 9 and it's not full puberty (I mean, I think having periods at 9 would be precocious puberty). I was pretty much sexually mature aged 12.
As for the fat girl who wore a bra, it's hard I suppose to tell flab-breasts from developing breasts. The flab-breasts are basically like man boobs but on kids.

As soon as two public hairs appear.

ruveyn

11 or 12 I guess, hard to define on a male.

19 or 20... depends on when I start therapy.

8, got my first period at 11 and a half.

I had no idea what was happening then and it scared the living crap out of me. I thought I had a mysterious bleeding disorder and thought I was going to die from it, so I wrote out a will. I still have it somewhere!

I started physically developing around 10. I was 12 when the monthly curse started, and from then till about 14 the weight kept pouring on. Nothing fit right; things moved when I tried run; the emotional feelings were overwhelming. I just wanted to get out of my body. that is when I discovered that extreem dieting(starvation) could get rid of all of these things that were causing too much confusion sensory input. When you loose alot of weight and become underweight, your hormones no longer work as they were. You no longer have body parts flapping in the wind. It took me till i was about 25 to realize that I was harming myself. I also realized that I wanted to get married and have kids. It was then that I had to face it all over again. ugg. I am now a healthy weight, married and mom of 2, but I can tell when I put on a few pounds or my hormones are way off. My husband says that he can tell when my hormones become way off becasue I become a b*tch from H*ll.

I started when I was ten. Although, for me, I think that was pretty early. I was only 4'0" and 39 lbs...

Aww, that's so sweet.

Between 15 and 18, I grew about a foot. So I guess you DO have some time left to go. I don't know when I really started growing facial hair. I guess it WAS between 13 or 14, but it didn't get THICK until perhaps 16. As for love, I guess it REALLY affected me BIG TIME(almost like paan far for vulcans, to give you a hint) was about 13. I guess you could say I had sexual arguers a LOT earlier.

anneurysm,

WOW! Where did you go to school(HERE, kids, at least boys, TEASE about such things.)? You NEVER had a clue? Couldn't you tell that you were bleeding from an odd place? I, if I were female, etc... would probably have gone to my mother and asked her about it. HOPEFULLY it didn't last long, at least each time.

13-14

I also imagine the physical aspect must be a far greater bother for girls than it is for boys; we have it easy, only thing that's really annoying are the growing pains in the legs... so talking about puberty is like speaking two different languages between the sexes. :/

And I think many of us have fluctuating moods, which would indeed get more intense during a time of internal hormonal turbulence... Even if mood swings are part of who you are as a person, it's too early to tell you've stabilised yet, emotionally, even if you're past puberty. I can tell you that the stage I'm in now, post-puberty, having started around 18-ish, brings a lot of internal changes as well. Of course, it doesn't help that I found myself in a situation where I lacked all inspiration and stimulation and grew very apathetic, but these past 4 years I've felt more aware of my autism than I ever have before. Also, I have felt a stronger urge to be independent, an urge to belong somewhere, even an honest-to-goodness nesting urge earlier this year. All of this influencing and being influenced by greater or lesser mood swings, and even short bouts of emotional passivity. It can catch you unawares sometimes.

Some people just don't really get hair, etc.. HECK, the hair on my chest is sparser than I suspected it would become, and about like what my hair used to be. I believe THAT is controlled by testosterone. The hair on my face is THICK, and THAT is suppoosedly controlled by DHT which comes from testosterone. I have male pattern baldness that is supposedly created by DHT. So I just can't win. I DOUBT women care if you have hair on your face(most claim to like men well shaven), and they can't much see the hair on your legs, 9 times out of ten, and even many straight guys try to get rid of it.

I guess it all depends. I heard about a boy that had a mother that was an IDIOT! She used TESTOSTERONE cream, and probably didn't even wash her hands. Eventually, the young boy absorbed enough, and things went WILD! She took him to the doctor, and they eventually found the problem. She stopped. The boy NEVER recovered 100%. Testosterone went up like 50% and he got bigger and stronger. I wouldn't have minded that, even if it was caused by a STUPID parent. He started out pretty average, and ended up being well above his age group. I didn't see how long that took.

About nine. Too damn young.