#puberty

[mentalnote1]

Puberty ~ Poetry

I tried to off myself

I cut my wrist

Watched blood seep from my veins

I thought of other ways but I’m too young for cocaine

Doctor told me I had a sprain and she bandaged my brain

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I’m 13 years old and my dad tells me things will

Eve-Vent-Chu-Ally change

***

Mammas tryna’ get me away we took a ride on the train

I remember when mamma was sick

She had a sprain in her brain

I went with mamma weekly when she took the ride on the train

***

I stayed with the doc for 2 weeks

Until I went back to schoo’

Brian has a new girlfriend now but I don’t give a fuc’ cause I’m coo’

[transmemesfortransqueens]

[mysharona1987]

[incognitopolls]

Anon feels like getting their first period was almost traumatic because of how deeply ashamed they felt about it, even though everything about it was normal and they knew it would happen.

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[satoshy12]

Ice Giant Danny

While in puberty, Danny had a massive growth spurt because of his ice powers. He seems to be like an ice giant; when he goes, Phantom and it'is no longer a tiny phantom. 

His human form is massive too, at around 6 feet in height. He is taller than Tucker or Sam by at least one head and taller than any of his classmates.

But his phantom form is around 10 feet. With a very cold feeling around him, people know Phantom is coming as the weather gets much colder. 

[master-jarrus]

Puberty must've been wild for Lloyd

Not because he didn't know what to expect but because he probably got multiple versions of "The Talk" and isn't even sure what is supposed to be happening anymore

Because like he probably got the human version of "The Talk" from all of the ninja

Nya also probably tried giving him a small summary of what girls went through when he asked about the period products in the bathroom one time

(Like an awkward "Well you know how the guys warned you about how your body has chanhed? Girls bodies change too but we get periods which is bleeding down there about once a month" while they are both wishing they never said anything in the first place)

Zane probably gave Lloyd like a full human biology lesson on it

Then Garmadon would've talked to Lloyd and was honest that he doesn't know what was puberty and what might've been from the venom. Not to mention he's not human so some things must be at least a little different

Then Mystaké probably got her hands on Lloyd and gave him a run down of what onis go through which probably left him super confused because what does she mean "horns are for displaying?" And "longer fangs are more desirable?"

Like theres no way he kept track of all the info

And he had plenty of ideas of what to expect but also none at all

And then when things just started happening he just went "this is probably normal" and decided to ignore it

[nebelihood]

HAJHS I sped ran this comic for the puberty prompt for the patakis week AHAJS

ALSO- A little headcanon that I might or might not develop cause I think it'd be sad but also interesting and on my experience could be very real.

I think Lila will keep being a nice girl until the the start of junior high where I think she'll start switching a little, change her appearance to fit in more with popular kids and actually start to be mean in a passive aggresive innocente way, idk just a thought. Later in life she'd come back to who she was before, I just feel like it could be a little canon event for some people

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

[ Source: EPATH Conference 2019. ]

Apparently being a regular teenager is a disorder requiring medical treatment and the removal of body parts. Not only are you "trans" if you don't fit a 1950s Barbie/G.I. Joe stereotype, you're "trans" if you don't fit a 1950s "golly, gee" soda shoppe "Leave It To Beaver" stereotype.

This is the same tactic psychics use to tell you your fortune, and astrologers use to convince you that distant stars reflect your personality. It's called the Forer Effect, or Barnum Effect.

To really drive home the cult programming, any time you're feeling better, that's how you know you've gotten worse.

For political and ideological reasons - for example, one presenter actually claims that children are being "misdiagnosed" as autistic when they're actually trans - they've flipped the symptom and the cause.

This is more accurate:

[v4ampbabe]

real

[alexandor]

[racing-landolane]

Puberty hit him good

[queerism1969]

[ly0nstea]

I do think its weird when people say "they haven't even started puberty yet" when talking about sex ed with children as like an argument against it but like,,, would it not be beneficial to tell children about whats gonna happen to their bodies soon rather than it just happening and than retroactively explaining it like, i feel like it'd be good to know "hey, you might start bleeding dont worry youre not dying" or "hey you might start growing hair or get an erection dont worry its normal" and cause significantly less trauma around at least the beginning of puberty

[incognitopolls]

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[fretbored34]

POV: You're 13 and your mom opens your laptop

[longreads]

We obsessed over stolen glances. The moments when T., sitting at his desk — brown hair and stubbly chin, his broad shoulders hunched over his laptop — would suddenly look up and catch my eye from across the room. How I would smile slightly, foot bouncing up and down beneath my desk.

Kayla and I swore up and down that M. and T. could read our minds, knew how infatuated we were, knew we were different, were artists.

We were being so obvious. Speaking with our eyes, our bodies. If they hadn’t said anything, hadn’t turned us down by now, it meant they definitely liked us back. They knew we were different — some invisible pulsation moving from their hearts to ours, begging us to recognize their deafening love, their painful lust, their desire to know us deeper than we knew ourselves. We relished that silence. But I’m not sure how harmless it was.

Jessica L. Pavia tackles the dangers of silence, puberty, and the desire for attention in our latest story, “The Teacher Crush.”