When puberty started, how hard did it hit you?

[The Historian 515]

Poorly. That's when I realized things weren't right but couldn't articulate what or why. Messed with everything, made me moody and amplified my already existing depression and anxiety by a thousand. Suffice to say, I had a bad time.

[Props Valroa 26,042]

Nothing happened that hard for me, there was no noticeable changes besides deeper voice and more hair, more zits and such than usual.

[Rainbow Dash Swag 285]

On 3/7/2019 at 11:36 AM, The Recherche said:

Very. VERY.

Black as the only colour in my wardrobe? Check.

God-awful music? Check.

Listening to the aforementioned music far too loudly? Check.

An amorphous mood? Check.

Nigh-constant voice breaks? Check.

Rubbish hairdos? Check.

Though I am not finished growing quite yet, I am grateful that my angsty teenage days are over. I am also counting my lucky stars that I am not deaf, but that is a different subject.

Seems about right most of these happened to me too (and still are happening)

[Kyoshi Frost Wolf 40,284]

It was fairly typical as far as puberty goes. Almost cliche to a point. Nothing was particularly over the top, but it was the start of my depression which continues to this day. That's been at least 12 years or so.

[Early Sunsets 2,106]

It did some ways, and I think it just entirely missed in others. Luckily my voice never really cracked much and I never got bad acne, but I think I missed the whole testosterone thing. I'm 6"1' with a fairly wide bone structure, yet I only weigh about 135 lbs. Muscles don't exist on my body

Mood swings are a definite yes

Good old angsty, edgy teen years hit (And have yet to completely disappear. Maybe they're here to stay)

Wonderful, painful growth spurts

Voice dropped a lot

Started growing a mustache when I was 12. Even shaving every other day, there's already a little scruff when I wake up the next morning

And obviously the whole "urges" deal. Lovely time

Being male is so much fun

[Here No Longer 5,270]

Okay, I think I didn't really properly reply to this thread with my first reply.

 

Puberty may not have hit me very hard, but I still hated what came out of it. It started when I was about 14 for me, and that was when my gender identity problems really began. I'm also glad it ended. It ended a bit late I think, but it still ended.

 

I may not have known that I had gender issues was back when I was 14, but about the time I was 17 I realized it was a gender identity issue. I also HATE my voice now. It may sound good for a man, but I'm not really a MAN. Not to mention the BODY HAIR. Ugh. I also had a very NSFW issue during puberty that I'm glad I don't suffer anymore. Let's just say it made me seem like a total disgusting creep with serious issues.  It doesn't help that puberty kickstarted a depression that would last for several years and made already existing anxiety and acne problems worse than they already were, and I had REALLY bad dandruff.

Edited April 4, 2019 by Dusky, the Boy Queen
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[Thuja 3,658]

Being trans, my body was doing stuff that I didn’t want it to.  I became more reclusive since I was ashamed of myself.  Every period I had felt like some punishment, don’t even get me started on my chest...

[Nsxile 25,672]

It happened pretty slowly for me and didn't hit me too hard really...

[SpicedHoney 16]

My boobs started growing in in 4th grade and I got my first period the summer before 5th grade. I got made fun of because my chest was growing and everyone else looked like a normal child compared to me. I hadn't got periods explained to me until after I got mine. I was terrified to find blood in my swimsuit after going for a swim.

[Venomous 18,813]

When I started to become a teenager, my skin broke out terribly. No matter what I tried, my skin just wouldn’t clear up. It was super embarassing. I was humiliated when I went to school. I thought that makeup was too girly so I didn’t use it. I was diagnosed with hyperhidrosis, which is excessive sweating. Before I found proper treatment, I had to deal with constant & uncontrolled sweating. I had to bring at least four sweatshirts to school so I could hide the sweat marks.

[Rebel the Wolfgirl 5,585]

2 minutes ago, Bakugou Is My Man <3 said:

I was diagnosed with hyperhidrosis, which is excessive sweating.

That doesn't sound very pleasant.

Anyways, I'm not sure if I've said this before, but puberty was an absolute bitch for me, especially in terms of emotions.

[Sherem 4,807]

didn't had the chance, since when it hit me I was mostly running inside a city at war for political problems and a massacre that happened in a highway 

[dead account 2,703]

It didn't really affect me much. I also didn't have a "voice break" (I hope that's the right term), my voice is still as soft as ever, haha. People always assumed me a lot younger. I had struggles, but it was not related to the puberty.

[daviddaviddavid 772]

Puberty hit me like a train.

In the space of one year my voice deepened to an adult's voice, I got acne/skin issues (thankfully stopped when my teenage years ended though), I grew from 5'4 (163cm) to 6'1 (185cm), I became irrationally angry at everything (I remember I once smashed a pool table to pieces at my parents' house because a cue was missing), and my sleeping pattern was ruined. Fun times...

[Tom Gallagher 33,521]

I was actually looking forward to it because I wanted to get rid of that squeaky, thick-accented voice. I was lucky to avoid bad acne and all that but it was still crazy to change so quickly. 

[ExplosionMare 18,007]

It wasn’t too bad for me but I was really insecure about it for the first couple of years. I had no idea what was going on.

[Splashee 28,537]

Puberty came late for me, so I was just waiting for it. I guess the wait was the difficult part

[Sonic Shimmer 4,116]

I went from being the short kid at the front of every class photo to over 6ft. So pretty hard.

[Orgazoid 50]

when i was 10 years old i aged like four years in like two months and i was freakishly tall for the next three years (i was 5'9 before i started secondary school)

[EpicEnergy 22,076]

I honestly don't remember, as I was too busy playing video games for what felt like all day long to notice.