Nellie's Guide to Being Little: Vol. 1

What is the difference between Age Regression and Age Play?

People often confuse the two and don't know the difference, so here is a post explaining ageplay and age regression. This comes from eterallyinnocent on Tumblr. Enjoy!

- Nellie💕✨🍼

What is the difference between Age Regression and Age Play?
Age regression is a psychotheraputic process in which a person changes their focus to earlier memories and earlier ages. An age regressor mentally reverts back to an age younger than the age they are biologically. They may even appear to talk, act, and think according to that age. age regression can help people cope with trauma, relieve stress, recover early memories, and deal with mental illness.
Here are some nonsexual age regression communities:
Carekids- Carekids is a nonsexual age regression community, and is not a part of chire. (No cgl(re) or Kidheart interaction) #carekids
Cglre- Cglre stands for caregiver/little regressor. It started by people who nonsexually age regressed and didn't want to be associated with the sexual side of cg/l.
Babyre- Baby regression; the regressor reverts back to infancy. #babyre
Caregiver- Takes care of the regressor.
Cgxl- Caregiver and little. #cgxl
Dxlb- Daddy and little boy. #dxlb
Dxlg- Daddy and little girl. #dxlg
Furre- Animal regression; the regressor reverts to an animal headspace. #furre
Kidzspace- Regressed head space. #kidzspace
Little- An individual regressor.
Little space- Regressed head space. #littlexspace or #sfw littlespace
Mxlb- Mommy and little boy. #mxlb
Mxlg- Mommy and little girl. #mxlg
Totre- Toddler regression; the regressor reverts back to being a toddler. #totre
Chire- Chire stands for child regressor. members regress due to trauma, mental illness, and to cope. (No Cgl(re) or Liltot interaction) #chire
Kidheart- Kidheart is a nonsexual and nonkink community for age regressors, pet regressors, and system littles. (No Cgl(re) or Liltot interaction) #kidhearts
Babyheart- Regresses to infancy. #babyheart
Caringheart- The carer of a kidheart. #caringheart
Childheart- Regresses to childhood older than toddler, 5-8. #childheart
Flip- Both a regressor and a carer.
Heartspace- The regressed head space of a kidheart. #heartspace
Keeperheart- The carer of a petheart. #keeperheart
Kidheart- An individual age regressor. #kidheart
KidxCarer- Relationship between a kidheart and a caringheart. #kidxcarer
Littleheart- System little. #littleheart
Nannyheart- Temporary carer. #nannyheart
Petheart- An individual animal regressor. #petheart
PetxKeeper- Relationship between a petheart and a keeperheart. #petxkeeper
Sibheart- Kidhearts who seek or feel a sibling connection. #sibheart
Teenheart- Regresses to the ages of a teenager. #teenheart
Tweenheart- Regresses from ages 9-12. #tweenheart
Liltot- Liltot is a nonsexual age regression side community that accepts members regardless of their main community. #liltot
Bigtot- Regresses from ages 9 and up. #bigtot
Kintot- Feels a familial connection while regressed or has otherkin based regression. #kintot
Liltot- Regresses from ages 2-8. #liltot
Pettot- Pet regressor. #pettot
Tatertot- Caregiver to a regressor. #tatertot
Teenytot- Regresses from infancy to 1. Not to be confused with teenietots. #teenytot
Teetertot- Both a tatertot and a regressor. #teetertot
Teenietots- Teenietots is a nonsexual regression community for those who regress from 0-7 and system littles from 0-7. You must first check with the creator to be part of this community. (No Cgl(re), Liltot, or Kidheart interaction) #teenietots
Ageplay, however, is roleplay in which at least one party pretends to be an age younger than themselves. These people are not in the head space of children and this is completely different from age regression. Ageplay is a kink that has a power exchange and is part of the BDSM community. Their subsets include ABDL, DDLG, DDLB, MDLG, MDLB, CGDL, (sexual) CGL,and TBDL. These communities are strictly 18+ and NSFW. Do not interact with these communities if you are a minor.