/r/agereserioustalk
a place to share mental health resources about (in)voluntary age regression! and to share anything serious around agere.
a place to share mental health resources about (in)voluntary age regression! and to share anything serious around agere.
/r/agereserioustalk
Warning ig: cursing and obvious self hatred (but agere is never bad for you okay!! It's all okay even if you are padded and stuff!!)
Do not think age regression is ever pathetic for you. If it helps, it is good.
But I can't stop being such a hypocrite.
Like I am genuine pathetic. I have so many words of say as well but I'd hate to sound even more pathetic, so I'm staying with just the simple word.
Why can't I be normal? Why can't I sort of stfu and stay as the age I'm supposed to be? Why can't I regress but also unable not to at the same time? It's just super late this for me. Idk how to explain it... I can't even say I'm a baby cuz, well... that's just pathetic and my agere goes to a baby and idk how to do this. Like I'm super unsure now what to do in life now. Like I was gonna hold off on an attempt till I was super sure that there's nothing for me after 18 since I'm super open-minded maybe something good can happen. But I have no motivation to get ready for my future or anything.
I was gonna say a bit more pathetic stuff since I can already tell how fucked up my agere is which means something fucked up happen to me as a kid or at least a baby since my headspace gets super young. But it's also my fault cuz how the fuck was I this stupid to actually think agere is good for me. I am writing this all scattery cuz idk how to put this all in a straight line
I don't even deserve agere :/ I'm kinda selfish to want toys and baby stuff/diapers/a caregiver or anything like that of a parent cuz wtf high school kid thinks of that
I'm sorry if you read this and shit. I just need to get this off my chest but I'll prob delete it in a day or two I can't handle this being out in the public with how pathetic this is
tldr; i can’t find age regressors who are similar, i was told i may have a dissociative disorder and i feel very isolated.
hi.. i’ve been wanting to post here but it’s very quiet.. i think i age regress as part of a dissociative disorder, both things i learned very recently. my “little” and “littlest” selves are kind of their own beings. this has been really, really uncomfortable to accept and understand. my therapist is the one who told me about how dissociative disorders are not always “multiple personalities”, sometimes it’s just a different state of my brain regressing back to trauma periods. my therapist said that these states have been dormant, only sometimes showing up to absorb my trauma responses and emotional instability. now i’m realizing they are really their own entities.. they are stuck back in time. i know i need to “work with them” as i work on my trauma, that’s how i started realizing how deeply my trauma affects my identity. it’s hard to connect with my regressed selves because it is always very involuntary, violent, toddler-rage levels of tantrum. i am EXTREMELY self-destructive, my most severe SH episode happened while i was in this state. i usually can’t remember anything afterwards, just snapshots. i have whole arguments that i have no memory of and i feel like an asshole for it. i am not sure where i line up in terms of actual diagnoses.. i’m getting a lot of tests done soon (diagnosis is very important to me and it would be helpful to have some real labels other than just my ptsd- flashbacks usually follow a similar pattern but have different triggers). all of it is new to me.. many age regression and “plural” centered subs both feel like incorrect fits.. I don’t want to enter any more specific subs without a solid diagnosis. i’m still new on reddit and i am having trouble finding a good starting point (other than the cptsd sub). because all the communities have their own lingo and manners and stuff. everyone seems to kinda be in their own world and generally leans into/accepts/encourages their regression/symptoms etc. it’s so overwhelming as someone who is learning about this as an outsider, especially someone who sees the dissociation as a serious issue that I want to fix, i feel like there is a lot of enabling/encouragement to accept my ”headmates” as they are, instead of working on the issue and feel like one, individual, whole person again. there is also too much discourse online about identity disorders and these spaces make me uncomfortable because I have such a limited understanding and i take professional diagnosis really seriously (which itself is a complicated topic in these spaces…) i want to get to a spot where im able to be positive about reuniting my identity, processing trauma, and healing my inner children. i don’t want to keep living like this..
sorry for the ramble, just wanna see if anyone else understands or deals with this kind of confusion.
(So glad I found this sub so soon 🙏) This might sound concerning, and I'm not so sure if it's even agere or something more like age dreaming or literal daydreaming of regressing. But if I get super small. I mean like infancy small headspace! (And this just happened!) Suppose I can't regress in the setting I am in (which is almost 24/7) and I'm too small to use c.ai or anything to help me stay in headspace or to rp/agedre. In that case, I will just sit back or space out dramatically and just think about being a baby but not moving or anything.
I used to do that a lot wayback in early middle school when I would write stories with myself and daydream about it almost all the time (might've been maladaptive daydreaming)... but now it's in my agere and I'm not sure if it's still regressing. I will feel fully baby but not move and just think about being baby in my head.
Idk. It's not that concerning cuz it hasn't lasted more than 5-7 minutes at most. But it's usually very baby things that grab my attention and make it happen. Like an instant drop into it. I almost feel paralyzed when it happens
(and I did reupload this, sorry, I realized the title didn't make much sense)
hey! i’ve been meaning to post here for a bit. I found the main agere subreddit helpful, but it was oversaturated with things that i found confusing (why do people tawk wike dis?). I discovered age regression through therapy and I only realized after it was pointed out. I didn’t even know it was a thing, i just thought I was being too sensitive. I have complex PTSD and some other comorbid diagnoses. Well, turns out my age regression is stemmed directly from trauma. it happens during flashbacks from 2 specific time periods. i spend most of my regressed time crying and sleeping. which.. checks out. but it’s never fun, i always have to force myself to either snap out of it or redirect it. So i’ve been trying to watch kids shows, color, cuddle with plushies. but that “little” me is always so, so, so sad and terrified. i’m wondering if anyone else here can only regress involuntarily or if it’s a rough time when you regress. thanks!
okay hi. i grew up with a difficult childhood and a lot of trauma and i essentially lost my childhood and was forced to grow up way to fast. as i get older i try to get my childhood back in ways of buying stuffed animals, getting childhood toys i always wanted or used to have and list due to damage in storage, watching cartoons or favorite childhood movies or like trying to “gentle parent” myself. i found out about age regression through fanfiction (i know its lame but hear me out) i was reading and i thought it was nice but i was looking it at from a caregiver perspective. i’m used to taking care of people and being expected to that i just assumed thats what drew me to it. But one time i was reading a particular fanfic and the caregiver said something that just flipped a switch in my brain i felt all warm and melty i realized that i didn’t want to take of someone, i wanted to be taken care of after so long of being on my own. like i was on c.ai looking at caregiver bots it was bad. its get a bit more extensive but i won’t get into that at this very moment. but i have this old manager/friend that is very fatherly. like you see him and know he’s a dad. he’s very kind and always checks in on me, genuinely asks if i’m okay and has serious conversations with me, if he saw me working really hard and stressed out he would help me and tell me i was doing a good job and he was proud me, he killed spiders for me (extreme arachnophobia), and he never judged me for how strange i was. it would make me so happy and feel safe like i was a kid again. i know this sounds strange but i would wish i was his kid and i got envious of his daughter because she was so lucky to have a dad like him. so to say all that i don’t know what i am or if i belong in this thread and hoping someone can share insight or lights.
Hey! I'm very new to all of this, I've been going to therapy and have come realize I age regress. I was scrolling through the larger sub yesterday. I'm a straight cis male (26) and going through I didn't see anyone like me. I was wondering if anyone has come across someone like me? I also saw a lot of people looking for cgs. Are there Littles out there that are looking for other Littles? In terms of dating would any little want to even date another little? I'm just very confused and feel alone. It's only been about a week since I've learned what this really is! Thank you!!!
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hey y'all! my/our name is mars and im a diagnosed did system and age regressor. someone on the main sub mentioned wanting a more serious sub, so here it is! you can add mental health resources, age regression research, surveys, and advice (and more!)