Pubertal Timing Quotes

I went through puberty late. I was a little, little, tiny kid. I was still growing in college.

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

Early on, girls begin to menstruate, which is dramatic but not obvious to their playmates. They grow taller and rounder, but underneath their makeup they are still recognizably themselves. For boys it is far more disorienting. Puberty comes later, sometimes much later, and its delay is humiliating. While the tall round girls are getting themselves up like grown women, the prepubertal boys, with their featureless, hairless bodies, are just dirty little kids who could pass for the children of the hypermature girls.

Puberty hit me pretty hard. All of a sudden, I woke up, and I had really curly hair.

Kids whose puberty begins too soon face not just psychological risks, but physical ones too, with an increased likelihood of cancer, as well as skeletal changes that could prevent them from attaining their full adult height.

I genuinely hit puberty before everyone.

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

Excess body fat alters the levels of the hormones insulin, leptin, and estrogen, and these factors are believed to be responsible for the acceleration of pubertal timing by obesity.