Every medically-certified website (Mayo Clinic, NHS, etc.) has described early/precocious as a pretty serious medical condition, and when you look at the list of symptoms I actually have every single one (short height, early mood swings, small hands and feet, etc.). It starts to get serious when you find out that early male puberty links to shorter lifespan and higher risk for later-life diseases.

The 'Treatments' section is what puts me in a bad mood because they only list what to do if the patient is a child. There's no mention of what can be done if the person is already an adult. I've always known I grew faster than most people, so I really wish I mentioned it to a doctor at least once when I was growing up.

I'll briefly write my growth story:

Ages 3-13: I always happened to be taller than most kids my age. I was always the tallest in my class growing up until I stopped growing at 5'8 (172cm) at age 13.

Age 8/9: I had a moustache and always got comments from people in my class. This was also the first time I started feeling very conscious about my body.

Age 9/10: By this time I'd discovered porn (I'm the youngest of 4 siblings and was always left alone on the computer) and started playing with my erection before I knew it was 'masturbating'. I still remember ejaculating white semen before I even knew what semen was (the reason why I'm mentioning this is because I thought ejaculating white semen was normal for someone at that age but most guys I've talked to on Reddit have said that they couldn't till they were at least 12 years old).

Age 12/13: The first time I measured my penis size and it was 6" length, 6" girth around. I remember a boy used to joke about my bulge in the changing room and said that it looked big, which it technically was for someone my age back then.

Age 13/14: I grew full facial and body hair. I hated changing rooms cos of the constant comments about how hairy I was. My voice had fully broken by this time too.

And that's basically it for my growth story. My body has not changed since I was 14 apart from my skin looking older.

It's definitely affected my life emotionally too: some may say that "5'8 is a fine height" but to me it's not fine considering every male in my family history and cousins is at least 5'10 & average height being 6ft. Every person I met growing up would say "you're going to be so tall when ur older" which obviously isn't the case, and in school I would have random guys come up to me just to say "Hey we used to be smaller than you!". Every cousin I have who's younger than me or my age were all smaller than me, until recently when they all grew to a taller height than me.

I'm so sick of this. Remember those symptoms I briefly mentioned at the beginning? Not only are my hands comparatively smaller to men my age, my shoe size is UK size 6.5 and the average for my height should be at least size 8-9. Even my family used to say that my mood swings came way too early for someone my age, but this point could be contested as some children can seem to be randomly more aggressive than others.

So what was the point of this post? I want to ask any person who has any knowledge about whether it's worth me getting a doctor's appointment (wait times are insane here in the UK) and whether you know if I can even be treated even though I'm not a child anymore.