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The ball drop myth

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Ok, time after time I see stories with the protagonist whose "balls haven't dropped yet" and that either say outright, or strongly imply that they do so at puberty.

As someone born male, this always bugged me. Because I clearly recall mine being there as far back as second or third grade. Let's just say it involved a stupid dare, ok?

So I finally did some digging on medical sites.

Guess what? They normally "drop" sometime before *birth*.

Undescended testicles is a problem the doctor should have noticed before the kid could crawl.
It's considered fairly serious too.

Mind you, I'm sure a lot of doctors *don't* check unless there's so reason to be doubtful about the baby's gender.

Even so, balls "dropping" at puberty is a *myth* (unless you are a guevodoce).

I can only chalk it up to being yet another case of adults somehow failing to remember things about their childhood.


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