Is 14 an adolescent or is it 16 and up?

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what do you think?

an adolescent is someone who is beginning to develop sexually and beginning to take on adult decision-making and may be even younger than 13. the brain continues to mature until a person is 25. I would argue that that is when adolescence ends, in spite of laws to the contrary.

Adolescence is essentially the teenage years. 13 - 18, as I selected in the poll.

Adolescence is the period of a persons maturation, from the beginning to the end of puberty. That puts most adolescents between 12-21. I think most people just consider it as "teenagers".

I consider adolescence to start at twelve - but that's just my take on it.

Link: "What is Adolescence?"

^ That seems valid (I'm not saying that it's true, however). Some girls start puberty as early as 8 years old, and as late as 16. Some boys may get their first whiskers before the age of 10, and some don't until their late teens. The final growth spurt for both genders may occur as late as 24.

For the sake of conversation, I use "pubescence" to denote the time of hormone-induced physiological changes (including the "Sybil Years" of 13 to 15), and "adolescence" to denote the time between "childhood" (0 to 12 years) and legal "adulthood" (18+ years). Thus, from a subjective point of view, I use "adolescent" and "teenager" interchangeably.

I think it's during puberty. So from the ages of 10-20 on average.

I think the same.

I'd define it more by the mental changes rather than puberty which is the physical changes.


Typically, people all develop mentally APPROXIMATELY the same rate.
The school grades also acknowledge this.So I'd say preadolescence is like 9 (upper elementary), adolescence like 12(7th grade), and adulthood approximately age 16.

but adolescence is divided into early(12-14),middle(14-16), and late adolescence after most changes are finished (16-19).

Gradewise, Id say 7th and 8th, then 9 and 10, then junior year through freshman year of college, but the last doesnt really matter, as you're all basically grown.


Just my take and observations with some science too.

Also, you may not believe me, but I believe Aspies develop slower, for me specifically 2 years in this range, though obviously it wouldn't be that way when I'm 55, because 53 isn't much worse

what do you mean developing sexually? do you mean menistration and growing breasts and stuff like that, or starting to have those kinds of feelings towed other.

personaly im 14 but I feel to young to be an adolescent. I have started puberty physically but not developmentally/ emotionally/ mentally if you know what I mean. I am not nearly up to level on what kids like and feel and can do and emotionally handle and stuff like that.

I'm very fragile like a small child.

I think it's from 13 to 19 years old. Anything younger than 13 is a child and anything older than 19 is an adult.