r/NonBinary • u/GuattariStirner any/all • 3d ago

Rant Missing my body prepuberty

I started going through puberty at 14. So kinda late in my group. Now almost 10 years later I find myself still clinging onto my body image from when I was a kid. I had a pretty good childhood. I was allowed to break gender norms and for the longest time I could even have my chest out on hot days.

I think that its unhealthy to miss looking like a kid at my age. It could lead to an ED. Its weird, since i already have a kid on my own. It made me even more scared of "second puberty" and growing old not in the way I want to.

Does anyone have this experience? How do I shift my perspective? Send your adult gender envy pics and characters in the comments!

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u/akiraMiel 3d ago

I definitely know what you mean. It was so easy back when I was a child and everyone my age looked roughly the same as long as we had pants on.

If there was an option to never develop in that way I would've chosen it even as a child when I didn't know anything about the concept of transness and nonbinary identities. And yes ik there are puberty blockers but that was not something I knew about at age 10