How normal is it to have remained pre-pubescent until nineteen?

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Ok, I already know it wasn't normal.
Sure didn't feel normal anyway.

It took until I was more than forty to find an answer to 'how' it was that I went through such a thing with no answers.

It turns out that people born with an enlarged pineal gland release far more melatonin than people with normal pineal glands.
The condition is called hypermelatoninism.
Funny how general medical practitioners were not taught the basics of the human endocrine system in med school not too long ago... now even?
Anything affecting your pineal gland has an effect on your entire endocrine system,(all of your glands), these effects are asymptomatic for every individual.
Melatonin therapy is currently being used to keep trans-gender children pre-pubescent until their age of consent so that they can choose which sex they relate to prior to surgery at which point puberty is then allowed to progress normally.

Anybody ever heard of a medical way to delay puberty before?

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How normal is it to have to live a majority of your life in order to acquire enough knowledge, (without a medical background or even high school education), to diagnose your own condition?

How normal is it to have knowledge of your own condition actively suppressed?

Go figure...

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  • SuMaFTW
    8 years ago

    Zzzzz

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  • Anewbis
    8 years ago

    Well... yep, closer to fifty actually.
    Didn't know there had to be a point here other than 'is it normal?' given some of the crap I've seen posted.

    Is it normal to have been flushed through the education system, left home, supporting oneself and almost twenty years old before going through puberty?
    If so, I've never met anyone else who's dealt with it.

    So... if there's gotta be a point I guess it would be to maybe inform others, who may be currently dealing with this abnormality which is not decades in their past, of exactly what is going on with them since their doctors, like the doctors I was taken to, won't have a clue.

    That word 'hypermelatoninism' was in the process of being scrubbed from the net when I stumbled across it.
    Unless your general practitioner has a background in psychoneuroendocrinology you won't get any answers from them.

    Do I need more of a point?

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  • thegypsysailor
    8 years ago

    Athletes, especially gymnasts often have delayed physical development until they quit the sport.
    Otherwise, I'm not sure why you are posting this. Didn't you say you were 40ish, so it's way behind you, whatever your point is?

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