I think that puberty for girls in particular is when they start to feel like young women, because their body develops a lot during that period. What makes girls feel like women happens during that time... if you delay it then you miss that window of opportunity for them to develop into their body and feel more feminine. Being a late developer is probably quite isolating, and it might feed into their ideas that they aren't feminine at all.
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@sim maybe fitting people into categories isn't such a bright idea, but society loves that. women have to be dumb and use tons of makeup, men have to be dumb and go pumping in the gym. nerds are still nerds and fucked with (the same for any other subculture or whatever you might call it).

don't fit those categories? bet you are trans or some different "problem" requiring medication, regardless if you would fare well if only not getting your psyche fucked with constantly for not fitting the norm. i guess being diagnosed with something is a relief then, as finally you have the (probably wrong) reason for your troubles. after all mental health problems are now widely accepted.

there are real psychological problems, there are real trans people, but i bet a huge number is still misidentified because of not being "normal" and society has no interest in that. people who don't fit the norm are a liability.

god i'm so fucking pissed by everything.

@bonifartius I think you are onto something there. Society isn't really interested in helping people to embrace themselves as they are it would seem. Much more money to be made in diagnosing symptoms and drugging the problems away so it doesn't inconvenience society and the systems in place.

@bonifartius i mean there are real problems, but if it is so much easier to say about every problem that it is psychological, it feels like a loss for everyone. good to know that at least some people think in the same direction.

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