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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Nov 6, 2013 14:09:05 GMT -5
I truly hate the sound of it. I liked being a girl immensely. Since I'd grown up reading a lot of Louisa May Alcott and girl-lit with origins before the 1930s, I didn't expect to have to deal with breasts or menarche until I was sixteen or so.
I felt totally ripped off when I turned 12. This didn't happen in the books I was reading.
That makes sense, Little Women was written in the 1860s, which 16 WAS the age of puberty.
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Post by haapai on Nov 6, 2013 14:27:26 GMT -5
Sixteen was also pretty close to the age of puberty in some of the places where I grew up. I spent some of my childhood in the developing world.
My parents went out of their way to tell me that girls could do anything that boys could do and they encouraged me to do this even after puberty hit. But I did notice a lot of people giving me strange looks when they realized that I was outside of the house, doing things, alone!
I'd like to say that I only got the stink eye for doing things alone in the less developed world, but that wouldn't be true. Folks were surprised by it in the US too.
I don't think that it's good for a person to never be alone.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2013 17:33:16 GMT -5
My wife was 9 when she got her period... So 1994.
Doesn't seem abnormal, at least not in her family; all her cousins got their period around the same age 9-11 per the aunts/MIL and MIL/her 4 sisters also got their period around the same age.
Maybe genetics also have something to do with it.
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Post by taz157 on Nov 6, 2013 17:59:06 GMT -5
I started to wear a bra when I was 12/7th grade and definitely needed to then. I didn't get my period until I was 13.5. My mom was starting to get worried too.
FWIW, this was the early 90s.
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Post by zibazinski on Nov 6, 2013 18:06:33 GMT -5
Just what women needed, a longer time to have the curse.
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