<p>hahah LO ROCKS! They should make a lo show!!! But yeah Kristin’s mean…STEPHEN IS HOT…Talon??? DOUBT IT !!! Apparently he’s the “hot guy” this yr! EW!</p>
<p>GIrls defininately mature faster than boys!! YOu can’t tell around freshman year, but you can REALLY tell around sophomore year. ARound that time all the Girls start to understand themselves more, while all the sophmore guys seem more clueless. In my school, at least. IN the beggining of every year, the mirrors in the girls bathroom are crowded with freshman puting on makeup to look older, while they don’t act that way. This freshman boy in my math class brought a notebook today and made everyone sign it, 'cept for my, cuz i refused. ANywhow, he says he’ll sell it on EBAY when one of us gets famous. So immature, and he’s suposed to be one of those big great class personalities. They also try to dress sluttier/sexier. Same thing with goths. Every year, there’s this upsurge inthe number of goths with the freshman, and then it dies down. But then again I go to this very ghetto school.</p>
<p>lol!!!..hes like 15…hes soo tiny…i mean hes adorable…but hes definitely not the hot guy…wait…laguna wont be traveling with the previous students like LC LO STEPHEN TREY?..what no…its new ppl?..noooooo…wait im not going to love it anymore…i was waiting to see how stephen and lcs life is going to turn out</p>
<p>monzzei…interestin…ur school reminds me of my school…the goths think they are soo misunderstood when infact they are like everyone else…chics in my school come in such sluts…but heh…they stay sluts…and i think grlz think they know themselves sophomore year…but they have no clue…and like i got 19 chics pregnant in school this yr…we have day care centers in our school…</p>
<p>Biologically speaking, the minds of girls mature faster. However, different social constraints and societal pressures on guys and girls cause them to display their maturity in different ways. </p>
<p>Emotionally speaking, guys are not as proficient, as a whole, whether at our age or older. This has biological roots in emotional expression (I believe) and in recognizing nuances of facial expressions. </p>
<p>In terms of delayed gratification, well, the differences, I believe, are more individualized than gender-dependent.</p>
<p>I don’t think the past few posters can or should make generalizations - are you suggesting that every single boy in our world (roughly 3,000,000,000) is immature, and that every single girl is more mature? I’m not gender-bias at all, but I sense that that’s exactly what’s going on with this thread.</p>
<p>Furthermore, tebro, where did you get your evidence from? Is this your opinion or proven by actual empirical evidence (ex: “Biologically speaking…” = indicates to me that it’s scientifically proven). Obviously you are entitled to your own opinion, but when you make a generalization like this, you sound overbearing and make boys seem like immature children.</p>
<p>Sex Difference in Brain Maturation during Childhood and Adolescence</p>
<p>Michael D. De Bellis1,2, Matcheri S. Keshavan1, Sue R. Beers1, Julie Hall2, Karin Frustaci2, Azadeh Masalehdan2, Jessica Noll2 and Amy M. Boring2</p>
<p>1 University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and , 2 Developmental Traumatology Neuroimaging Laboratory, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, 3811 O’Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA </p>
<p>Oxford University Press</p>
<p>Sorry if I came off as overbearing. I only meant to say that time-wise, girls are faster, possibly for the purpose of procreation. Body-wise, girls reach puberty faster as well. However, it’s just a matter of two or three years, and we all end up fairly equal.</p>
<p>I’m not trying to classify EVERY boy or EVERY girl…but,yes, it has been generalized MANY times that girls mature faster than boys (although, I think I do remember reading that it eventually equals out). </p>
<p>I was just wondering what everyone’s opinions were, and how they related to my own idea of maturation rates between females and males based on my observations and things I’ve read.</p>
<p>"Michael D. De Bellis1,2, Matcheri S. Keshavan1, Sue R. Beers1, Julie Hall2, Karin Frustaci2, Azadeh Masalehdan2, Jessica Noll2 and Amy M. Boring2</p>
<p>1 University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and , 2 Developmental Traumatology Neuroimaging Laboratory, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, 3811 O’Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA</p>
<p>Oxford University Press
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<p>Here is the Abstract. If anybody can figure out how this says anything about maturity or whatever maturity is supposed to mean…</p>
<p>Brain development during childhood and adolescence is characterized by both progressive myelination and regressive pruning processes. However, sex differences in brain maturation remain poorly understood. Magnetic resonance imaging was used to examine the relationships between age and sex with cerebral gray and white matter volumes and corpus callosal areas in 118 healthy children and adolescents (61 males and 57 females), aged 617 years. Gender groups were similar on measures of age, handedness, socioeconomic status and Full Scale IQ. Significant age-related reductions in cerebral gray and increases in white matter volumes and corpus callosal areas were evident, while intracranial and cerebral volumes did not change significantly. Significant sex by age interactions were seen for cerebral gray and white matter volumes and corpus callosal areas. Specifically, males had more prominent age-related gray matter decreases and white matter volume and corpus callosal area increases compared with females. While these data are from a cross-sectional sample and need to be replicated in a longitudinal study, the findings suggest that there are age-related sex differences in brain maturational processes. The study of age-related sex differences in cerebral pruning and myelination may aid in understanding the mechanism of several developmental neuropsychiatric disorders.</p>