Early Birds

Bodies

KCRW, Allison Behringer

Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Puberty is starting younger and younger, especially estrogen-dominant puberty. We talk to three kids and one teen about extra early puberty and the funny, scary, embarrassing and joyful experiences that come with it.

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0:00.0	Hi hey thanks for doing this no of course this is hilarious I've literally told people
0:14.6	about it in adulthood and you've just been like you guys did what wait so like what do you
0:21.5	tell people what do you remember about it so I remember coming to lunch and I think that
0:28.1	maybe I was a few minutes later than most people and so when I walk up to the lunch table all the
0:34.0	girls are talking like are you a dot or a comma are you a dot or a comma and I didn't understand
0:39.2	it completely because everyone was just speaking in code and Allison you knew if you were like Katie
0:43.2	your dot Katie so on the side of the lunch table I was like okay I'm a dot I don't know what that
0:47.8	means when my friends and I were in the seventh grade we created this weird sort of game
0:53.1	at lunchtime in the cafeteria we would divide ourselves into the commas and the dots the dots
1:01.4	sat on one side of the table and the commas on the other my friend Katie was a dot while I was
1:06.8	still a comma before long realized that we were talking about periods and that if you were a dot
1:13.9	you had had your period already and if you were a comma you hadn't had yours yet so we
1:20.7	literally split our lunch crew up one side of the table be some whether you were a dot or a
1:28.0	comma you had your period or you had it yet and then do you remember that if you had your period
1:35.9	just once you are semi colon oh my god I totally forgot about that
1:41.2	over spring break of my seventh grade year when I was 13 I became a dot I remember my mom
1:51.5	declaring me a woman and then that Monday walking into the cafeteria and taking my place with
1:56.7	Katie on the dot side of the table in the years since over the last two decades there's been a
2:04.0	big change in this country puberty is starting younger than ever especially estrogen dominant puberty
2:11.1	and according to reports from pediatricians the pandemic seems to have exacerbated this trend
2:18.4	today three girls and one teenager share their experiences their ages range from 10 to 18
2:24.8	they're all cisgender are from different racial backgrounds and live in cities and suburbs
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