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No matter when you were born or where, puberty is the same. It's the same for your parents as it is for you - what's happening in your body dictates everything.

What happens when children reach puberty earlier and adulthood later? The answer is: a good deal of teenage weirdness.

Puberty extends into your twenties, for sure, and some people don't get over that until much later in life. I feel like I'm just starting to get over puberty - basically twenty years of insufferable, totally self-obsessed hell.

I think as you get older, you tend to think of teenagers as really young.

I didn't hit puberty until I was, like, 17, so I love to talk about that.

I was in high school, and when you get to be 14, 15, you start to feel a little more like your own person so that you can assert your adulthood a little bit.

I definitely think being a young girl, there's a time where - like when you're in middle school or when you first start liking boys - you don't really feel comfortable. You remember that time when you first got your period, or when your boobs started coming in, that you were like, 'This is weird.' You have to grow into yourself.

Puberty is an extremely traumatic process even if you don't realize it. It kind of lives with you for like 10 years.

Adolescence is a time in which you experience everything more intensely.

I never really had a teenage experience. I went from childhood to maturity, and in some ways, it short-circuited me emotionally.