disillusioned
Kraken
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Go look at old photographs from the late 19th and early 20th century. Both men and women look at least 10 years older than they are. Unironically you've got 14-year-old girls and boys looking like they are in their 20s and sometimes even 30s literally what the fuck.
I know some of you will default to saying it's because testosterone was simply higher in this era, but this does absolutely nothing to explain how even the 'girls' look so much older. All the stories about how women used to get married off by 14 make so much more sense when you realize how they used to look back then. They probably started puberty at 12 and were adults at 14 or something.
I simply can't wrap my head around how such a dramatic reduction in aging could've occurred in just a few generations. Hormones alone can't explain it and nor can greater working stress since even the aristocrats aged faster than we do.
I know some of you will default to saying it's because testosterone was simply higher in this era, but this does absolutely nothing to explain how even the 'girls' look so much older. All the stories about how women used to get married off by 14 make so much more sense when you realize how they used to look back then. They probably started puberty at 12 and were adults at 14 or something.
I simply can't wrap my head around how such a dramatic reduction in aging could've occurred in just a few generations. Hormones alone can't explain it and nor can greater working stress since even the aristocrats aged faster than we do.
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