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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Puberty is an extremely traumatic process even if you don't realize it. It kind of lives with you for like 10 years.
In your teens, you get the physical puberty, and between 28 and 32, mental puberty. It does make you feel differently.
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.
Most of your life after puberty, you're either seeking to reproduce or living with the consequences of having done so. At 70, you start going back to being 11 again.
It's interesting when you're in your thirties and you're not the same pretty boy that you were when you were 21. I think people's anger at themselves getting older is projected on to you because you become a symbol of that.
What happens when children reach puberty earlier and adulthood later? The answer is: a good deal of teenage weirdness.
The thing to remember about being young is you eventually get old.
My whole thing is that often times when teenagers are about 18, 19, 20, 21, they get this mentality that they have to be old, they have to appear older, they can no longer be seen as a high schooler, they need to be seen as mid-20s all of a sudden even though they're only, like, 20. I'm the opposite of that.
I can't age on the inside, and I'm totally okay with that. I have no need to grow up and see myself as mature.
I didn't hit puberty until I was, like, 17, so I love to talk about that.