early or late puberty

[Maxbreak]

I hit puberty at 10, and think that's quite early. Though I 've heard boys as young as n9 and girls of 8 starting. I felt none of my friends had started, and didn't know what was going on. How did you find it if you were early.
Similarly, those who started late, what was it like watching others grow, with nothing happening?

[Natacha]

The new feelings puberty brings started about the age of 9 for me. Boobs and pubic hair started slowly about a year later.

[Katie2003]

I got my period right around my 11th birthday which I think is early compared to lots of girls I know, but at the same time I know of others as young as 8 or 9 and some who are 16 and still haven't started theirs.

Even though mine started at 11, and I got pubic hair at 13 which seems about right, I still have no breast development at 15 1/2.

[Dav1d]

i think i'm late. not sure if i've started.

[HeyCameron]

Definitely late. Quite frustrating to see others changing and me not doing anything. My voice has only started getting deeper this year and I'm 16. I'm still 5'3" and not even over 100 lbs. :(

[Fiona2]

I'm definitely late at 16 and no period or breasts. I have a few light strands of pubic hair but it's coming in very slowly. It hasn't bothered me too much and I am taller than most girls my age and have a lot of muscle tone. Not having periods is a plus. Other than being completely flat, you can't really tell that I'm late.

[jamie_n5]

I think I was earlier than my classmates.

[Maxbreak]

i think i'm late. not sure if i've started.

No pubes or boners yet? Growth spurt?
I hope it happens soon

[ArthurHannenburg]

I started at 10 but only a little bit, I started to develop more noticeably at 11

[Dav1d]

No pubes or boners yet? Growth spurt?
I hope it happens soon

i get boners but dont have hair yet

[Maxbreak]

i get boners but dont have hair yet

Sounds like things are starting. I hope you get more signs soon

[Dav1d]

Definitely late. Quite frustrating to see others changing and me not doing anything. My voice has only started getting deeper this year and I'm 16. I'm still 5'3" and not even over 100 lbs. :(

You're taller than me! i'm only 4'9 !

[INACTIVEchaosphere]

I was pretty early too. Mostly it was just having a comment or two about the fact that I had a peach fuzz mustache for a long time before anybody else and I was hairier in generally later on. I also had and have a lot of stretch marks because of the growth spurts. We all got to roughly the same level pretty quickly though.

[Tsall]

I started puberty at 13. That doesn’t seem bad, but then my younger brother started when he was 11, before even I had started.

[Gabrielle1]

I'm definitely late at 16 and no period or breasts. I have a few light strands of pubic hair but it's coming in very slowly. It hasn't bothered me too much and I am taller than most girls my age and have a lot of muscle tone. Not having periods is a plus. Other than being completely flat, you can't really tell that I'm late.

Same here

[TessTheGreat]

I was 13 and later than most of my friends. I'm still developing though so I'm sure I will catch up and the people who start later than me will catch up too.

[Morgan_15]

I am late, my friends are all developing and I still look like a little kid. It sucks to change for the swim team, everyone else is developing and I am not.

[Deleted00]

I started early at 11! Or the beginning of 12. Pretty sure it was the end of 11 tho

[Karalectric]

I'm definitely late at 16 and no period or breasts. I have a few light strands of pubic hair but it's coming in very slowly. It hasn't bothered me too much and I am taller than most girls my age and have a lot of muscle tone. Not having periods is a plus. Other than being completely flat, you can't really tell that I'm late.

Same! I am 15 and rocking the AA cups. No period yet, but my friends say they are envious of ME because of that, so i am fine with it haha. Although if my little sis starts, that could be super awkward! But i am a bit short though.

[Zandra]

The new feelings puberty brings started about the age of 9 for me. Boobs and pubic hair started slowly about a year later.

Same here

[benjs5000]

i dunno if i have started yet

[Adamant]

no category for average?

[Maxbreak]

no category for average?

Were you sort of "in the middle"? Were you jealous of people that were early, or happy as you knew what to expect?

[Adamant]

I guess in the middle. More jealous than pleased.

[MasonBA]

i get boners but dont have hair yet

I didn't get hair until this summer, I'm 13 and behind all my friends. There are some boys in my PE class that don't have hair yet. Nothing to worry about we all get there in time

[bonbon]

I was pretty late, the first signs started when I was only a few weeks before turning 15. It was annoying to see everybody else getting more manly, and a bit frustrating with my gf.

[Karalectric]

I think it is harder on boys because to them it is more socially valued being tall and athletic?? I could be wrong. It is easier being a smaller girl because we are "cute". Ugghh that's all i ever get. Cute. lol Oh well, there is worse!

[Oscar-V3.0]

Similarly, those who started late, what was it like watching others grow, with nothing happening?
It sucks. I feel like childish sometimes :/
Though some boys are worse than me :/

[Falcons_11]

I was a late bloomer. Puberty for me started at 13. Most of my friends started before me and were more developed than me. I think I'm catching up now.

[Maxbreak]

I started puberty at 13. That doesn’t seem bad, but then my younger brother started when he was 11, before even I had started.

So did he get pubes and cum before you?

[justa16yearoldaussie]

I started at a fairly average age of 11 but nobody else in my grade started and when they found out they were so curious

[Jazmine03]

Same! I am 15 and rocking the AA cups. No period yet, but my friends say they are envious of ME because of that, so i am fine with it haha. Although if my little sis starts, that could be super awkward! But i am a bit short though.

I'm definitely late at 16 and no period or breasts. I have a few light strands of pubic hair but it's coming in very slowly. It hasn't bothered me too much and I am taller than most girls my age and have a lot of muscle tone. Not having periods is a plus. Other than being completely flat, you can't really tell that I'm late.

My cousin has been the same way, she was 15 no pubes or boobs. I was very much the opposite I had pubes very early on and boobs too. But in about 3 months of me masturbating with her which she didn’t do much of that anyway she had her period and started growing pubes and boobs. Do you have the desirer to masturbate?

[Jericho14]

Also early here. I had pubes growing at 10. But all changes started happening one by one halfway through 11

[logan2002]

Early, had pubes at 11, cumming at 12 and a few months. Was in third of my 6th and 7th grade class with pubes. Some were bald in 8th grade

[pauly]

I was told that boys start puberty approx. 2 years later than girls. From what I read on here, the gap doesn't seem to be quite that much on average.

By the way, I started puberty at just 12 years old.

[Birds18]

I was pretty late, the first signs started when I was only a few weeks before turning 15. It was annoying to see everybody else getting more manly, and a bit frustrating with my gf.


What did your girlfriend say about it?
How developed was you or girlfriend at the time?
How did she know that you hadn't started yet?

[arnorway]

i thought i was late (compared to all my friends and classmates i am) but compared to some on here, i'm not. i'm 13 and have some noticeable signs

[Birds18]

i thought i was late (compared to all my friends and classmates i am) but compared to some on here, i'm not. i'm 13 and have some noticeable signs

It's a little bit confusing. If you do a Google search it says that if you have not started puberty by the age of 14 But I see and read so many people starting at age 11 and 12.

[Oscar-V3.0]

i thought i was late (compared to all my friends and classmates i am) but compared to some on here, i'm not. i'm 13 and have some noticeable signs

Dont worry I'm 13 too and definitely not in the earlies :o

[Hermes]

I was early. I haven't kept any kind of diary but I do have a couple of reference points:
1. By the time of the sex-ed lessons in the autumn term of my first year of secondary school (UK 7th year, USA Grade 6) I could already ejaculate. That would make me about 11 3/4.
2. By the end of that school year someone from my primary school commented that my voice was deeper so this would have been at about 12 1/2.

Of the two I think this is the easier way round. There is certainly the thing that you are having thoughts or doing things your classmates don't yet understand, though being in scouts which is mixed age range and finding the older boys shared those thoughts certainly helped. I also got some teasing about having "monster" cock, i.e. because it has started to grow before most of theirs. That didn't bother me, I just wrote it off as jealousy.

I was told that boys start puberty approx. 2 years later than girls. From what I read on here, the gap doesn't seem to be quite that much on average.

You may get a different answer depending on what you look at. Growth in height is definitely quite different between the two with boys being later. There's a good reason for that because the growth spurt and subsequent growth plate fusion are due to oestrogen. Girls produce oestrogens directly whereas in boys they are a side effect of producing testosterone so a boy needs to be much further into puberty for his oestrogen level for be high enough for that growth spurt.

[Maxbreak]

I was told that boys start puberty approx. 2 years later than girls. From what I read on here, the gap doesn't seem to be quite that much on average.

By the way, I started puberty at just 12 years old.

I read somewhere that girls could get pubes as early as 8, boys 9 and it would be considered OK. before that it Early puberty was called Precocious puberty (nothing at 16 is delayed puberty). The worrying thing I read was about 50 years ago that figure was something like 1 in 50 girls, where as now it's like 1 in 8. In the last 100 years it seems yo have physically gotten earlier for some, which means we as a generation are now having to cope emotionally at a younger age

[Fiona2]

My cousin has been the same way, she was 15 no pubes or boobs. I was very much the opposite I had pubes very early on and boobs too. But in about 3 months of me masturbating with her which she didn’t do much of that anyway she had her period and started growing pubes and boobs. Do you have the desire to masturbate?

I've been masturbating since I was about 11. I discovered it by accident and it helps me relax and get to sleep. And it feels really good too!

[Maxbreak]

I've been masturbating since I was about 11. I discovered it by accident and it helps me relax and get to sleep. And it feels really good too!

Have U been to the doctor? have U been diagnosed with delayed puberty?

[RebeccaGallagher]

I started when I was 9 but I guess my boobs were the first thing I noticed

[ChrisA1998]

i dunno if i have started yet
Has any of these things happened ?
- balls growing and dropping away from your stomach (hanging lower)
- penis growing
- started to grow quickly in height
- voice starting to change / break at akwards times
- pubes starting to grow
- hairs on the rest of the body (leg, arms, armpits)

if so, then you have started :)

[benjs5000]

Has any of these things happened ?
- balls growing and dropping away from your stomach (hanging lower)
- penis growing
- started to grow quickly in height
- voice starting to change / break at akwards times
- pubes starting to grow
- hairs on the rest of the body (leg, arms, armpits)

if so, then you have started :)


thanks i definetly started then :)

[ChrisA1998]

thanks i definetly started then :)
cool then, congrats :D
whatever it is that you have started, the rest will come up soon :P

[Fiona2]

Have U been to the doctor? have U been diagnosed with delayed puberty?

I've been to 3 doctors and have been diagnosed with delayed puberty due to low body fat.

[Jermy]

I am 13 and haven't really started puberty yet from what I read. I took the Tanner Stage Survey posted on another thread and it gave me a 1.5 rating. It is frustrating to be behind my friends. Most of them are growing and have pubes and talk about other changes that I am not having yet. And I was one of the taller boys in 4th and 5th grades and now I am shorter than most of the boys and some of the girls too. I know it is supposed to start soon, but I am still frustrated that none of the obvious changes that other people can see have happened yet.

[MasonBA]

I am 13 and haven't really started puberty yet from what I read. I took the Tanner Stage Survey posted on another thread and it gave me a 1.5 rating. It is frustrating to be behind my friends. Most of them are growing and have pubes and talk about other changes that I am not having yet. And I was one of the taller boys in 4th and 5th grades and now I am shorter than most of the boys and some of the girls too. I know it is supposed to start soon, but I am still frustrated that none of the obvious changes that other people can see have happened yet.

I was the same way until this summer. My penis finally started to grow and got a few pubes, even dribble some sperm now. Still behind all my friends and most of the boys in my PE class. It will happen, just different stages for each boy

[Oscar-V3.0]

I've been to 3 doctors and have been diagnosed with delayed puberty due to low body fat.
Whats the relation between fat and starting puberty?

[Oscar-V3.0]

I am 13 and haven't really started puberty yet from what I read. I took the Tanner Stage Survey posted on another thread and it gave me a 1.5 rating. It is frustrating to be behind my friends. Most of them are growing and have pubes and talk about other changes that I am not having yet. And I was one of the taller boys in 4th and 5th grades and now I am shorter than most of the boys and some of the girls too. I know it is supposed to start soon, but I am still frustrated that none of the obvious changes that other people can see have happened yet.
I'm nearly 14 and I got 1.9 on Tanner. So you're not alone

[Maxbreak]

Whats the relation between fat and starting puberty?

I was a little overweight when I started at 10 (still am now). Some reports suggest rhat the diet we have bow compared to 50 years ago is why puberty is starting earlier

[Oliviaaa]

Close to average i think...

[Birds18]

I was the same way until this summer. My penis finally started to grow and got a few pubes, even dribble some sperm now. Still behind all my friends and most of the boys in my PE class. It will happen, just different stages for each boy

I hope that's how it happens for me.. I just recently noticed a couple tiny hairs starting to grow around the base

[Oscar-V3.0]

I hope that's how it happens for me.. I just recently noticed a couple tiny hairs starting to grow around the base
Same for me. Its like a little blonde fuzz, but doesn't really look like real hairs

[Birds18]

Same for me. Its like a little blonde fuzz, but doesn't really look like real hairs

How long have you had those little hairs?

[Pultost]

Average, I guess? I got some pubes and something that slightly resembled boobs when I was around 12, as well as the "urge".

[Oscar-V3.0]

How long have you had those little hairs?
A few weeks

[Maxbreak]

A few weeks

Have they grown. Mine came in fairly quick. It can vary from person to person

[Birds18]

I've heard that if you are a late bloomer when you start getting pubic hair it comes in quite quickly.

[Oscar-V3.0]

Have they grown. Mine came in fairly quick. It can vary from person to person
Not really, i notice them coz I watch closely, but if you're not that close i dont think you can see them. I'm able to catch some of them with my fingers though :D

[Maxbreak]

Not really, i notice them coz I watch closely, but if you're not that close i dont you can see them. I'm able to catch some of them with my fingers though :D

Cool. U will find that they will grow and get thicker

[Oscar-V3.0]

Cool. U will find that they will grow and get thicker
I hope so!

[MasonBA]

I hope that's how it happens for me.. I just recently noticed a couple tiny hairs starting to grow around the base

That's great. Bet you start to see more changes soon!

[hayley2003]

I think it is harder on boys because to them it is more socially valued being tall and athletic?? I could be wrong. It is easier being a smaller girl because we are "cute". Ugghh that's all i ever get. Cute. lol Oh well, there is worse!

I think this true too. nobody in my family is very big. My dad is about average, only 5'8". Mom is about 5ft, but tells people she is 5'2". I am about 4'9" and my sister is about the same (she is 11). My Brother is 16, and only 5'2". He didn't start to mature until he was 14.5, and is a lot smaller than his friends.

Even though I am smaller than most girls, guys have always liked me. I remember when I was 10 and started to grow boobs, older boys started to notice me and flirt with me a lot. My sister is kinda of the same, lots of guys flirt with her all the time and she flirts with them back. People still kinda think my brother is about 13-14 most of the time because he looks a lot younger and he is shorter. He is kinda good at some sports, but its still kinda hard for him to play against guys that are lots bigger.

[KatieCO2003]

Heh, I wish I got "cute" all the time. I used to get "do you think that's a boy or a girl?". Now I get "She sure-as-hell ain't no 15. She'd have tits if she was 15". I started very late due to a traumatic injury and several long stints in the ICU recovering. Also, I'm only 4'10" and very thin. But as bad as it is for me, I can imagine that it would be a lot worse for a guy.

[Fiona2]

Whats the relation between fat and starting puberty?

I don't know what the medical science behind it is but girls with more body fat tend to start puberty at a younger age and girls (like me) with very low body fat sometimes experience delayed puberty.

[Oscar-V3.0]

I don't know what the medical science behind it is but girls with more body fat tend to start puberty at a younger age and girls (like me) with very low body fat sometimes experience delayed puberty.
I'm about 5'2 105 lbs I'm not fat at all, I'm rather the opposite. And I'm definitely not early :/

[Sammy_03]

Nothing wrong with that, we're all different. And we progress and develop at unique rates. Everything is fine, I stared a bit later; but depending on genetics, we're all different, you're fine. Just be comfortable with your body and everything will work out!

[Red Light Bandit]

Even having pubes and started to masturbate with 10 years I consider that my puberty was late, because my voice is high and my dick was small until i was 15
It was frustrating to see everyone in the classroom with 5ft7 and I with 5ft1

[Jessi03]

Fairly early, around 10 or 11 for me, although the physical changes were most noticeable for me after turning 11.