Puberty/Adolescence

Chris wrote:What age do you recall the onslaught of puberty hitting you? And what was the first sign of it?

Women: when did the mosquito bites and cycling start?
Men: when did your smooth grapes start becoming hairy walnuts and how old were you when you began getting facial peach fuzz?

Compared to most of your peers, did your physical maturity happen sooner, later or along with everyone else?

Supernova wrote:I was 9, and at the time I was the only kid we knew of who did, then a few years later my mom's friend called her up worried that her 9 year old had gotten her period too, and when my mother told her I had too, the friend's response was 'but my daughter's so little!' Which, I suppose is understandable, by 9 I was almost as big as my mother and by 10 people thought I was an adult.

Chris wrote:What age do you recall the onslaught of puberty hitting you? And what was the first sign of it?

Women: when did the mosquito bites and cycling start?
Men: when did your smooth grapes start becoming hairy walnuts and how old were you when you began getting facial peach fuzz?

Compared to most of your peers, did your physical maturity happen sooner, later or along with everyone else?

Nystyle709 wrote:

Supernova wrote:I was 9, and at the time I was the only kid we knew of who did, then a few years later my mom's friend called her up worried that her 9 year old had gotten her period too, and when my mother told her I had too, the friend's response was 'but my daughter's so little!' Which, I suppose is understandable, by 9 I was almost as big as my mother and by 10 people thought I was an adult.

You got your period at nine? Wow. I remember when my uncle was with his son's mother....she told me she got hers at seven. SEVEN. I swear, I don't know what they are putting in the water nowadays.