Do AS Girls Mature Faster Than NT?

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Nope I was about normal. I also didn't finish growing until this year. (I'm 20).

hey cool! i grew an inch at some point after i reached adulthood.

Sadly... I honestly can't tell you... I didn't really notice any of it :X finally at some point in middle/highschool my mom left some trainer bras in my room to hint that I should probably wear them, and went and got some real ones around 16ish... (we didn't speak about this xD)

Period I think came ~12ish or so... honestly don't know... I kinda remember it, and remember being freaked out cus it was brown and not really like blood, but it definitely wasn't early (or particularly late)

But don't really recall when my bust started growing, or when hair started growing or anything... oh being oblivious is amazing xD (Wait, you mean I just grew a 5th limb, and I didn't even notice? That's not normal?! Nowai!)

i started developing/menstruating at a normal time, but i never really looked as old as i am. when i was a senior in high school, i would go to restaurants with my parents and the waitress would ask them if i was over 12 (because 12 and under were considered kids and were charged less). even now, i could easily pass for 16, even though i am in my 20's. and don't even get me started on emotional development-in my head, i have been 5 years old for the last 17 years

I was 12 when I got my period, which I guess was average back in the 70s (Im old) but otherwise I was late with everything. I was one of the shortest in my class. I was flat-chested and I hated it because the other girls were developing and I was teased a lot because of my size. We wore (hideous) uniforms at school and the other girls all needed darts in their vests while mine was child-sized. So embarassing. People who didn't know me thought I was three or four years younger.

For me it was! Although I wasn´t tall, and my face looked young, my breasts developed at age 11 and I was teased horribly about it. My period came about age 12; don´t know if that´s "normal" or not. For me it felt too early, I wasn´t looking forward to being a woman. I was kind of in denial.

In my case, the regular bullying turned into sexual bullying, but I wasn´t socially aware enough to notice the difference. For years, people in authority told me that when people teased me, they just wanted my "attention", and that I should just ignore them and they´d go away. Unfortunately, when the bullying turned into sexual bullying, I did what I was accustomed to doing, I just tried to ignore my tormenters. I guess that was about the worst thing to do......In retrospect, I realize that I let many people get away with things they shouldn´t have.

Did anyone else have this problem?

12-13 years old is absolutely average age! If you were f.e. 8, it would be too early. Maybe you weren't emotionally mature enough, but physically age 12 is ok.

I was average too, but tending to older site. I was the last girl in our class who had a bra (but I caught up with this, now I'm 32H) and I got my first period at age 14.

But my breasts and physical appearance changed earlier than my period. I was the only the girl who looked like a woman, so of course it caused a lot of attention among my classmates- which was the last thing I wanted.

It's normal. First the breasts start to grow, hair too and shape becomes more feminine. Then comes a first period.

I developed quite early, I liked that though because I liked having more boobage than my peers.
But the only thing that wasn't early was my period, which started when I was 13 1/2. I think I'm fully grown now to be honest, I've been the same height since I left school.

No, I was pretty average as far as menarche went. 12 years old, woot!

Mentally however is another story, I was a very deep thinker even when I was very young. However, my communication skills hindered my ability to articulate my thoughts. Man, I would be considered a genius if I could do that...

I don't know but I did. I was taller and more developed by third or fourth grade and got my first period at the end of 6th. That's about as far as the maturity went. Everything else I did late, including losing my baby teeth.

Okay, well, as far as teeth developing, I got my first teeth at the age of four months, they were first noticed by my grandmother during my baptism.

I certainly didn't mature faster than those around me, made secondary school life a living hell. I had the exact opposite. I didn't start puberty till I was about 16 and only got my periods when I was late 17. Odd considering the women in my family all started their periods between 11 and 13. I had no development at all until near the end of my secondary school life.

I think about the only thing that happened was a massive growth spurt when I was 11 and then nothing for years! The torment I recieved from this was horrific, I still get incredibly rude comments where I basically have the frame of a boy. Since loosing my hair and having to have it very short I get a lot of torment from people I don't even know about how I'm either, I quote, a 'tranny' or a 'pathetic excuse for a woman'. I spent years in tears as a teenager, and still do to be honest sometimes that I've not gotten the body of a woman and still look like I have that of a childs or a skinny boy.

I think no matter when you go through puberty it will cause hell, though I can see why those starting earlier than others and later than others probably recieve more pressure and more problems. Unfortunatly when you're that age and surrounded by other teenagers/children they can make life hell for you if you're an early or late developer as it's something obvious that will easily make you a target to single out... It's a part of my life I'd really rather forget. Then there's having to deal with the change if you're very young, A friend of mine got her period when she was 10 and she hated them, she despised her body and also feared it becuase it wasn't something she was emotionally ready for. Then there was myself at the other end of the spectrum stuck with a childs body yet having matured mentally (to a degree! ^.^ ).

Sorry I've rambled!

I still have two of my baby teeth and my wisdom teeth didn't start to come in until I was 22. One of them is out completely almost now while the other is hardly showing. The other one hasn't popped in through my gums yet.

I lost my first tooth when I was six and a half. Wait I was five and a half and then more of my front teeth didn't fall out until I was six and a half. Then I didn't get another loose tooth until I was nine. I can remember my first permanent molars coming in and I was about six and then new ones came in when I was 11. I lost my last baby tooth when I was 12 and I thought I lost them all and I was 15 when I found out I still had two baby teeth.

I lost my first baby tooth when I was 5, I think I lost the rest when I was about 10/11. As far as I know I have all my adult teeth.
My wisdom teeth first came through in the last year of high school, I have 2 now on each side of the bottom row, I have a third one starting on my top row. I hate them because they get really sore sometimes like now, I can't even chew and I've had to have soft food all day.