Puberty was not kind to me. I had acne, eczema and had a stye in my eye, so it was quite hard to go in to somewhere where the majority were boys. At that age, they were quite vocal about what they thought of your looks.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
I went through puberty late. I was a little, little, tiny kid. I was still growing in college.
Puberty is an extremely traumatic process even if you don't realize it. It kind of lives with you for like 10 years.
I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.
In your teens, you get the physical puberty, and between 28 and 32, mental puberty. It does make you feel differently.
What happens when children reach puberty earlier and adulthood later? The answer is: a good deal of teenage weirdness.
I was a teenage girl once. I was not an overweight teenage girl, but I had really bad acne when I was 11 or 12 years old. It was heart-rending, and people made fun of me. People whispered when I walked by in the hallways, and I was sure they were whispering about me. My adult perspective is maybe they weren't.
I genuinely hit puberty before everyone.
I was wildly interested in puberty as a child.
I didn't hit puberty until I was, like, 17, so I love to talk about that.