Psychology Facts

▲ Age Regression ▲

》Age regression occurs when someone reverts to a younger state of mind. This retreat may be only a few years younger than the person's physical age. It could also be much younger, into early childhood or even infancy.

》Age regression occurs in dissociative identity disorder (DID) particularly, but also in other mental illnesses such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and major depressive disorder.

》Age regression can occur spontaneously, or as is more often the case, because of a trigger. While not inherently harmful, regressing can be dangerous if the person is not in a safe place.

》With all these different theories for age regression, several types exist.

》Each of these age regression types share two common elements:

People who regress revert to a younger state of mind than their physical age. The length of years varies from type to type and person to person.

Age regression is in no way sexual.

》Again, Age regression is never considered sexual. It's a type of defense mechanism that allows you to mentally escape to a different time in your life.

》This is different from pretending to be younger. Indeed, some individuals portray themselves as many years younger than they are as part of a hobby, sexual fetish, or kink.

》For example, some members of fandom communities may use costumes and portrayals to "pretend" to be younger and more naïve. (Littles/little space). This is not real age regression.

》The difference between Age Regression and 'Little Space' / Adult baby / ETC

An age player is a person who fluctuates through two or more identifications listed above or even older. An age player is simply a person who is roleplaying

Adult babies are generally relatively young in the age-range spectrum. They are more inclined to be associated with bottles, diaper play, and baby talk. Some may be completely nonverbal or infantile in regressive behaviors.

Littles are the most common age-range for people to identify as in our community. Littles are often interested in stuffed animals, cartoons, coloring, building make-believe forts from common household items, and basic crafting. They may be emotionally sensitive, time-demanding, and in need of reassurance.

》People who identify as middles find that they have interests more developed than basic cartoons. They may be more interested in classic video games, cartoons with more developed plots and characters, dolls and action figures, going on pretend adventures, take on more extensive forms of crafting or hobbying.

》Regressors who identify as liddles fluctuate in interests and personality so much that they often flex between little and middle age comparisons. They may prefer a larger range of interests that still fall under the teenage expectations but older than baby or toddler commonalities.

》A less common ageplay range is the adult teen. Participants enjoy activities like sports, television shows targeted toward teen drama, journaling, photography, and more developed crafting and artistry such as oil painting. Some may be interested in fashion trends, gossiping, and possibly even the idea of rebelling. They may be of "dating age", want to attend sleepovers, or even host parties.

》brat is simply a personality type that is in combination of someone who generally falls under the little boy/girl, middle, or adult teen age-ranges in mentality. Most brats identify as a little brat, middle brat, or teen brat. Brats are often persons who challenge their Caregiver in dominance through ways of intentional disobedience

》A babyfur is a person who identifies as a furry (having an anthropomorphic animal-human character representation of themselves) within the furry fandom community as well as an adult baby, little, middle, teen, ageplayer, or other type of age regressor