Roberto Olivardia
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1,143 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2020
last heard Aug 2024
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Oh, it's great to be here as always.
Yeah.
I mean, in some ways, I think of it as what isn't happening is
the better question.
Because there is so much happening.
So we start with just biologically that our bodies are getting this surge of hormones that result in a lot of dramatic physical changes that
really is the first time in our conscious life that we're developing in this kind of way.
I mean, we don't remember when we're infants and kind of developing in that way.
So that can be such an awkward at best and scary, you know, to people, everything from your voice changing and hair growing in places and growth spurts and parts of your body that are changing that are very different and how you move and how you operate in the world.
So from even just your relationship to your body and body image and all of that becomes this huge issue.
And there isn't a one size fits all.
I mean, there are some people where if they're, let's say, developing more early, they can have a harder time with other people if they're developing later.
I mean, generally speaking, research shows that for boys who develop later,
it's often sort of seen as more of a negative experience for them.
For girls who mature earlier, it tends to be more of a negative experience.
But I've seen the whole gamut.
And I think because of that attention on the body and physicality, you know, you have now sort of this whole other platform of thinking about oneself as a sexual being and sort of sexual identity and sexuality and all of that coming in with the rush of
hormones and the way we relate to our peers and think about peers, the big question psychologically is, who am I, is the big identity question, the capital I. And part of that is because now as the body is changing, you're thinking of yourself in a different way.
And psychologically, you know, your prefrontal cortex is developing.
So your ability to
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