I've never understood this. Ever. The whole "puberty is a terrifying experience where you discover all these things about yourself."

It was nothing like that for me at all. It was just "look kid, babies get made when a couple fuck. So, there you have it."

My personality developed over time but I figured out at about age 10 that it'll morph and change for the rest of your life anyway, so that was never a big thing for me. Pretty much recognised you change as a person by reflecting on myself at that time, too.

I never "discovered" anything about myself, anything I didn't realise before I had pretty much concluded with some common sense before that point, or I just didn't care. The same way the average person notices a bump or something in their arm and says "think I'll hold off on going to the doctor, it's probably nothing to worry about", forgets about it, and just goes on living.

My response to the whole "the talk" info: "Meh, ok. Cool, another thing I know." I feel like I missed something here.

But it didn't stop there. Oh, no. Of course, schools wouldn't shut the fuck up for two seconds about how we shouldn't have been terrified of "the strange things happening to our bodies".

Man that shit used to aggravate me so fucking much when I was in school. It just felt so.. argh. Just cringeworthy. That's all I can describe it as. Like an overprotective mother telling you the red light means stop and the green light means go when you're 21 and driving a car for the first time. I doubt anyone was "terrified" or "oh so confused" at all, other than maybe the prude types who had no idea porn/periods/naked people existed up until that point (highly unlikely.)

I've never had some groundbreaking "Holy shit what's happening to me?" moment to do with puberty, from what I can recall of my experiences of it. Hell I didn't even notice it going on half the time. It was just "new facial hair and growth. So what? these are natural occurences, like pissing or shitting. It's nothing scary. Why are they making this such a big deal?" That wasn't booksmarts or any shit like that either, it was just putting two and two together from what I'd both heard and figured out in my own time.

If I was overly angry, sad, or happy at something I nudged it down to hormones and left it at that. It was never a break-down-and-cry-in-misery situation. I never had a "overwhelmingly curious about naked people" stage either. I watched porn and jerked off the same way I do now, only because I got horny. That's basically the end of it. Nothing's changed, and I'm a grown man.

I don't even recall an exact moment I "discovered" women had their own genitals, it was just something I found out one day, said "cool" to, moved on, then eventually found myself sexually attracted to. But that was it. I can't at all relate to this curiosity thing so many of you talk about and it puzzles me to no end whenever I stumble upon it like this.

I think I remember learning about sex as early as 9 and not thinking it was a big deal even then. The stuff I usually hear about puberty sounds overdramatic and cringey to me as a result.

I have read that the changes people experience do fluctuate in intensity, and I've read of other people just breezing through it, but whenever I bring up barely noticing it, I get strange looks. Don't get me wrong, I did go from smooth skinned kid to fully bearded muscled up bigger looking dude over a few years but, yeah no, just not a big deal. At all.

Anyone else relate to this?