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"The Regression of Number 22" follows Tyler Hayes, a high school varsity lacrosse star who maintains a facade of athletic confidence while hiding a deeply humiliating secret: a severe bedwetting condition managed by his parents through a dehumanizing nightly regimen of diapers, invasive inspections, and clinical surveillance. As Tyler struggles to maintain the boundaries between his public life as an elite athlete and his private life as a captive of his parents' infantilizing control, he becomes the target of a predatory coach who identifies the vulnerability beneath his athletic armor. The story explores the harrowing intersection of physiological betrayal, parental abuse, and the fragile nature of teenage autonomy in the face of systemic predation.