What part of puberty was anguish to you?

[Sequoia]

Never ending pimples for me. I was Miss Strawberry Face.

[LeftyFingerPop]

1. I jumped straight from coloring books to full beard.

[Deja Q]

2. I had a problem with tents...

:blush:

[Parche]

3. me too

I never liked camping, but i had alot of tents

[old mark]

4. I had few problems with puberty after

I reached age 45 or so....

Now I'm 61, and I have fewer still...
mark

[Tektonik]

5. Huge growth spurts

[Missy Vixen]

6. No breasts

I was slowish. I spent a lot of time being made fun of by the more endowed.

The problem resolved itself.
Julie

[Patiod]

17. Me too!

(and I hit "reply" before I saw who it was that had posted)

"Pirates Dream" (sunken chest)
Ironing Board, etc.

It didn't help that I weighed 112 and was almost 6' tall in a day before "Supermodels" and ANTM and the fetishization of tall and skinny.

Didn't get boobs until I went on the pill in college.

[Lincolngirl]

73. Interesting

Grew from 5'7" to 6'1", got boobs, and was about 115 lbs. All in 3 mos! 14!

Bringing sexy back!!!

It was awful. I was taller than all the guys. Looked like I had been in a closet for the last 10 years, and no one fed me.

Filled out nicely, and never want to go through that again!!

[FloridaJudy]

27. I had the opposite problem

Believe me, wearing a "D" cup in sixth grade is no fun a-tall. I felt like a freak, and the stares didn't help.

[Sequoia]

61. I remember you, we were all jealous.

We girls looked like 8 year old kids in comparison.

[Connonym]

7. Boobs in 4th grade

and a D cup by 6th grade when all the rest of the girls were still in training bras. I felt like a circus freak and always wore baggy clothes because even (especially?) older men would leer at me. It was really creepy.

[mopinko]

49. one more for boobs.

my 15 yo has recently inherited the family chest. she is up to a DD. she has had some of the biggest boobs in the class for a long time, but is otherwise skinny as a rail. sigh. that was me, too. i really, really feel her pain.
my niece one time chided her mother about her failure to have and pass down this family gift, and i assured her they never really brought me anything that i wanted.
until i met my hubby, that is.

[FloridaJudy]

69. I hear ya!

I used to envy those girls with flat chests,. They could actually buy dresses, and not have to wear a size 16 top and size 8 skirt. Now the rest of me has caught up, and I'm an 18 all over, but in junior high, it was hell. And the completely unwanted attention from the boys and even some of the teachers? I dreaded going to school. These days they call it sexual harassment and do their best to stop it, but back then it was assumed the girl had done something to cause it, and it was laughed off. It also didn't help that the popular stereotype was that girls with large chests were dim, and the flat chested were smart.

Why on earth some women pay to have their breasts enlarged is beyond me. Big boobs are a pain in the neck...and shoulders and back.

[mopinko]

70. only if you wear a bra. i gave up on them.

figured we had been hauling these things around for a couple of million years without scaffolding, what the hell. sometimes i feel a little conspicuous, but i figure that hoisting them up and sticking them out isn't gonna improve that. there are some more interesting winches on the market these days, but forking over $50 per just to give myself a back ache is just not gonna work for me. fuck it.

[Nikia]

75. Me too

Having significant breasts at an early age isn't fun.

[sniffa]

8. Maybe the acne?

Or the bad knees because I was so big for my age?

[SallyMander]

9. Growth spurt + boobs =

Boys' faces were all at boob level!!! :rofl:

[DarkTirade]

42. ... but the questions was "What was the WORST part"...

:P

[Dystopian]

10. Kleenex.

Trying to keep it evenly distributed in my bra.

peace~

[BlueIris]

11. I never could do anything with my hair. nt

[Taverner]

12. Being in a Fundamentalist Christian School during the whole ordeal

Man that sucked

:grr:

[Sequoia]

51. Wow, me too.

Maybe we were in there together!! Everytime we kids came back to The Farm from a visit to our real home it was like iron gates slamming down in my heart.

Edited for correct adjective.

[Oeditpus Rex]

13. Not reaching it until I was 32

[Ivan Sputnik]

14. acne

The self-consciousness this caused was agonizing and really put a damper on my social life.

[crim son]

15. I'd say the fact that puberty arrived with no external symptoms.

I was "Carpenter's Dream" etc. all the way through high school. I developed hips eventually. Only having my third child gave me a bonafide female-looking body.

It was hell. Seriously.

[Aristus]

16. Having a U.S.S. Nimitz-sized, nuclear-powered, turbo-charged, zero-point energy sex drive,

and no sex appeal. :-(

I was a nerd. No girl would have dreamed of doing the Big Kahuna with me. I was the "nice guy" that all the girls liked, but didn't want to go out with...

My life has gotten much, MUCH better since then... :evilgrin:

[Deja Q]

19. You're lucky*, I'm still a nerd...

:rofl:



* No pun intended. :P

[DarkTirade]

43. ... so the sex drive has gotten more managable then?

:P I keed, I keed.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

18. Hating a different part of my body every day

I thought my neck was too thick and my arms too skinny, my eyebrows too bushy, my hair too straight, my feet too big...

The focus of my self-disgust changed from time to time, but I know other girls in my class felt the same way about their appearance, hating their noses, chins, foreheads, etc.

[mwooldri]

20. Breaking voice did it for me.

I sang real good before puberty hit. Was even part of the school choir selected to sing in the Royal Albert Hall.

Then my voice broke.

My last public singing performance was as the hippo when singing "mud, mud, glorious mud..." at a local church.

My voice just doesn't have any real range to it anymore.

Mark.

[DarkTirade]

21. Acne.

Mine was REALLY bad. Painfully bad. And I'm not just talking about looks. I mean actual physical throbbing pain.

[arcadian]

22. The not getting laid part.

n/t

[Canuckistanian]

23. Ditching a girl who had too much acne

Whoops.....:blush:

[Skittles]

24. none

Alas, I had to deal with too many familiy issues to worry about my body.

[flvegan]

25. I was exceedingly lucky during puberty.

No acne. Well, the one-off pimple, but not real acne.

Honestly, I think that beginning my regime of pumping iron by the age of 12 put better use to my growing levels of testosterone than my pre-puberty body was ready for.

One more thing I may owe to the weight rack.

[lazyriver]

45. Interesting...I too started lifting at 12 and can count on one hand

the number of pimples I had in my teen years. There could be something to your theory.

[tigereye]

26. being self-conscious, I suppose

[mentalsolstice]

28. All of it was crappy

From age 12 to 20 sucked. Bad thing was my mom thought those were the best years in her life, and she never recognize my angst. She and my dad were both very popular in high school. In fact, she still has a monthly meeting with people from her graduating class.

Whereas, I try to get away from those years as much as I can, they were meaningless at best, and extremely painful at most. My parents pressured me, I wasn't outgoing enough, etc., yet I tend to this day be a loner type, and happily so.

But my mom, she calls me, and she's like "Can you remember so-and-so that you went to school with, well I saw/spoke with them the other day?" And I'm "no, I don't remember so-and-so." However, she doesn't get it, because she relives her high school days every day. They were the happiest days in her life for her. From 1960 (when I was born) to 2004, were the unhappiest years for her, she wasn't in her hometown group and she was very insecure. In 2004, my parents moved back to my mom's hometowns, and my dad's hometown is 30 minutes away. I'm very happy for them now, and I'm particularly glad for her.

We worry about taking care of her and my dad in their later years, however, we do not want to live where they're living now, my mom's hometown and where she went to high school and where she subsequently met my dad...but they're pressuring us to move to their town.

So at 47, I still feel like I'm going through puberty.

What do you do?
Edited for clarification.

[Jamastiene]

29. Female "coming of age" when I was 8 years old and

skipping a training bra altogether to go straight to a B cup by the time I was 10 years old. I already knew I liked girls when I was younger. Then, when I hit 10 years old, I had to carry a stick around to beat the boys off. Lucky for them, I got a whip later. :spank: :evilgrin:

[SarahB]

30. Puberty was kind of good for me.

I was a slightly chubby, nerdy little girl. I've always had a good complexion (an occasional zit but nothing major) and once those hormones kicked in, my little chub turned into nice curves. Seriously, I was a bit awkward in middle school (braces, etc.), but by the time I was 14 or so, I was a cute little chickie.

[Art_from_Ark]

31. PE/gym class

Totally sucked. All 6 years. I hated it with a passion.

[WildEyedLiberal]

32. All of it?

:shrug:

[Broken_Hero]

33. ditto...nt

[Heidi]

34. Church camp. (nt)

[Lil Missy]

35. My breasts hurt like a bitch when they started developing. Ouch!

I had occasional acne, but nothing serious.

You know what cleared up my acne completely? Getting pregnant. I shit you not. And kind of ironic that my son was born with a big pimple on his nose, LOL!

[Wapsie B]

36. Pretty much all of it.

The feeling of being different from everyone else, of not having a real sense of belonging hit me hard. Throwing sex into all of it made things all the more confusing. I was wondering what is this sex stuff all about and who's doing it? I can't even begin to think of those who view this time as the best time of their lives and have to relive it. I was most grateful to have moved beyond it.

[Lucian]

37. Spontaneous erections.

x(

[Frank Cannon]

38. The swollen hand, bruised genitals, and constant physical exhaustion n/t

[DarkTirade]

44. But on the flipside, those us of who hit puberty

after/during the advent of the internet have REALLY GOOD one hand typing skills.

[LiberalEsto]

39. Being the last in my grade

and being called "pirate's dream -- sunken chest"

[SteppingRazor]

40. The not getting laid part. n/t

[dropkickpa]

41. Boobs

Complete tomboy, went from happily flat as a board to a c/d cup in less than 6 months. I was PISSED to say the least. Still kind of am.

[Odin2005]

46. trying not to stare at cute female classmates...

...while at the same time getting erections at inappropriate times. :eyes:

[panhead1961]

47. I had back acne awful giant back zits

Embarassing at the swim hole or anytime I had to take off my shirt

[BarenakedLady]

48. Stretch marks

I wasn't heavy at all. I was a dancer. My legs grew too fast I guess.

I was mortified. I had them on my upper thighs. Still do, of course. But now they are EVERYWHERE....damn kids! :P

[surrealAmerican]

58. I didn't know other people got those too.

I grew hips very suddenly at age 13. Funny thing is I figured that would mean I would get them when I was pregnant too, but I didn't.

[chemenger]

50. I wanted to make out with all the cute girls

but they wouldn't look twice at me.

Actually, this problem continues even now. :cry:

[deepthought42]

52. Besides becoming a 'woman'?

fucking cramps and...all that. I would say the not getting boobs part. Still waiting...I'm barely an A for crying out loud! :cry:

[zanne]

53. I fiound out I wasn't pretty.

In Junior High, I had a crush on a boy, so I asked one of my friends to ask him what he thought of me. He said "She's a dog".

[skygazer]

54. Well, that whole monthly bleeding crap sucked

I'd trade you guys' spontaneous erections for that any day. x(

[Left Is Write]

55. All of it?

Ugly glasses, zits, crooked teeth, bony body, poor self-esteem, and torture at the hands of a couple of Mean Girls?

Yeah. 7th and 8th grade were just a big sack of fun for me.

[LeftyMom]

56. I'll let you know when the titty fairy finally shows up.

:eyes:

[Rabrrrrrr]

57. The extra ten minutes of bathroom time every morning shaving my palms.

[Rhythm]

59. Realizing that i wasn't straight?

I mean, the physical changes were annoying here and there, but nothing compared to the self-realization that my deepest infatuations were on other girls... compounded by (between the ages of 13 and 16) my internment in a Talibangelical Baptist-run private school.

[DarkTirade]

60. ...

:hug:

[Inchworm]

62. Ludes

:scared:

[Roon]

63. Realizing I was gay..

It was terrible

[Lady-Damai]

64. Being the tallest girl until 11th grade....

:-(

[XemaSab]

65. Frizzy hair, crooked teeth followed by braces, and being fat

Which is stupid, because I wasn't particularly "fat", I just had big hips, but somehow EVERYONE thought I was fat. Relatives, classmates, etc. :shrug::banghead:

[AwakeAtLast]

66. Cramps frome hell that left me doubled over in searing pain

Both my mother AND my doctor did not think there should be any medical intervention. Motrin wasn't OTC yet and Tylenol didn't (still doesn't) work for me. I literally would turn white from the pain - every month!. See, my doctor would have had to prescribe BIRTH CONTROL PILLS, but I grew up in the reddest state in So. IL in the mid 80's. Can't have middle school girls taking BCPs, can we? :grr:

[Patiod]

76. Oh, and that too

I used to go to the girl's bathroom during class, and smoke, which actually helped a little. No one bothered me, because who goes to the bathroom to smoke alone?

Ended up on the pill after a stay in the college health center due to uncontrollable vomiting from the cramps....

Good times, good times

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

67. The Whole Getting A Hard On From A Breeze And Right Before Being Called Up To The Blackboard Thing.

Yup. What a pain in the ass that was.

[DarkTirade]

74. Wait... if a hardon is a pain in the ass...

I think you may have been doin' it wrong... :P

[Rob H.]

68. Acne

I went on Accutane when I was in 10th grade and that took care of it, but I have some pretty bad scarring on the back of my neck. There's a scar about an inch below the base of my skull that looks like a burn because the dermatologist got overzealous with the dosage when he injected a big pimple there with some sort of antiseptic and it essentially burned off from the inside out. Idiot. :grr:

[TrogL]

71. Waiting for the "I like girls" thing to kick in

...while lusting after my best (male) friend.

[astral]

72. Cramps. Acne. Bein' Butt-Ugly

Frizzy hair. No nice clothes to wear, no clue about dressing 'cool' anyway. So shy I'd have anxiety attacks at school every day. A's in band and F's in math, I would have done better home schooling myself, and really wanted to.

Worst years of my life. Yes, it did get better after that ; )

[Mad_Dem_X]

77. My period.

It was a nightmare!

[Jimbo S]

78. Not being popular

No girlfriend. In fact, just a few friend at all. Whatever.