Delayed puberty

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Hi there, did anyone else go through puberty late and do you think it has a link to autism? I went through puberty two to three years after other kids of my age, as you can expect it was hell knowing there was another thing that made me quite different.

Now I'm 28 and keep getting comments about how I look 21. I still get ID'd. I'm not complaining of course

I don't think there's a link, because there are threads about puberty where everyone has started at different times.
I was really quite early with mine.

I didn't have a regular period until I was nearly SEVENTEEN years old, and I've wondered about the same thing. I think it can be related to ADHD as well but I also think my growth was stunted and my puberty was delayed by Ritalin and Adderall, I was on it pretty consistently through the ages of 14-18.

I had a late puberty, but I was also very underweight, due to a neglectful mother and a lack of awareness of hunger. Being underweight tends to be a conributing factor to late puberty.

ive not hit puberty yet, i mean my voice has changed but i still look 12

I reached it early. After school started, my mom came home with undershirts she bought for me telling me I needed to start wearing them because my boobs are starting to come and she showed me how my nipples were sticking out from my chest. I was nine. Yet my eight year old cousin was getting them too when I was 17 and she didn't even wear a bra or undershirts or training bras.

One of my aunts also reached puberty late. My mom said she was 17 or 18 when she got her period and then a woman's body when she was in her 20's.


Isn't that hitting puberty leekduck? Your voice changed and that's part of it.

There's nothing abnormal about hitting puberty late, especially if you're very active.

I mostly didn't menstruate until around 19. I had them only occasionally.

Well, actual puberty as far as physical sexual maturation started for me around 9, but I still look a good deal younger than my actual age even now. The Executive Function of the AS brain seems to slow quickly to a virtual halt around that age (adolescence), so I guess it makes sense that other maturation processes might be affected as well.

My son is an interesting paradox on this, because physically there is no doubt that he is in puberty, and is on the same scale as his friends, but mentally he's trying not to be. He has told me that he chooses not to think like a teenager, as he has always found them "annoying." And, yet, he can't really stop the hormones from fogging his brain, and that is annoying him even more. His body is changing and, because he has what to me is an astounding amount of control over his subconscious, his interests are not changing. It's a shame he hates to write, because documenting all that while he's in the middle of it would be interesting reading for those who study autism, I believe. I would never try to direct and control my subconscious mind, or my instinctive reactions like pain, but it is something he has done since he was very little.

I think I was on the later side.

A little bit. I'm just a little bit shorter than everyone else (actually, I might be quite a bit. I don't know how to judge that), but my appearance is definitely a lot younger than everyone else. My voice isn't really as low as all the other boys (then again, my vocal range might just be higher. Maybe I'm just a born singer!), and I still occasionally voice crack. Not a single person believed me when I told them I was 18.

Most thought I was 15/16 or around that. I'm the one that clerks are still unsure of, having to ask "Is he 18?" Doesn't help much that I tend to feel a lot younger on my side, and sometimes tend to act younger. Not in an immature way, necessarily.

I'm not complaining, I can't wait until I hit my 30's and everyone else is complaining "I wish I looked younger!" while I'm still looking like I'm in my 20's. ;D

I started late. my voice didnt change until i was 15, at 23 i still have no chest hair, when i shave my mustache people think im 14, bugs the hell out of me. when i was 17 i asked the doctor for testosterone, but he said i didnt need it. i didnt see "real" pubic hair until almost 16, that led to ridicule in the locker room, for my own safety, the school had me change in a broom closet.

Was the 1st to hit puberty in my class. Sigh.

Oh yea, of course I didn't look my age at all up to I was around 35. But that is quite common, isn't it? LOL.