I don’t try to justify or explain my regression. I don’t need to explain myself to anyone. And the people least qualified to vilify me for it are the ones who facilitated the need for it in the first place.
Exactly 💯 thank you for saying that, I'm a victim of some fucked up stuff and if I have to explain to every single person, why I do it, I think I would run out of words, like I can't control it
This perfectly put into words what I've been trying to explain to my mom, I told her about my regression so I could buy an adult paci but shes still very iffy
@@littlepumpkinbearxxx miss my mum lost my mum two weeks ago from cancer she watch my channel ddlg abdl age regression little space mental health talk my channel
I literally broke down at 'too late' ill never get back what they took from me even if i mimick it through regression, and that will always hurt more than i can ever put into words
I am so terribly sorry I wish I could hug you right now if that's alright. Not everyone in this world is horribly fucked up as them. I promise you. 😢 -sincerely a DID system
I literally cried watching this. Thank you so much for putting into words what's so hard to explain to most. Knowing I'm truly not alone in this helps so much.
I am not a regressor, but I have been doing my best to support those who are. I don’t fully understand age regression and this video is doing an amazing job at explaining it to me and others who are trying to understand. Thank you for your help.
@@Frogs12..I’m not gonna look up what DDLG is, sorry but no, I can infer from the stereotypes surrounding age regression that it’s something inappropriate. And hey, I’m sorry if you’re struggling with someone who doesn’t understand you. Or you’re like me and don’t understand it yourself! 😅
@@stellaredacted3727age regression is when someone, here it can be an adult or a minor,goes to a child mental state. It's a coping mechanism often used in therapy, many age regressors use it to cope with childhood trauma,stress, r4pe ect. DDLG, DDLB,MDLG and MDLB in an other hand is sexual a kink, often associated with ABDL and BDSM, it's a part of ageplay which is when an adult pretends to be either older for the Dom or younger for the sub it's can be the other way around but in general it like that this one even if it can be sfw it's always sexual. Unfortunately Age Regression is always misunderstood as ageplay and people are grossed out by a coping mechanism which is really sad. Hope I helped a bit 😅👍
@@Frogs12.. THIS. THIS. THISSSSS I can't tell you how many people I argued with, like tell me you don't know the difference without telling me. Ones a k+nk which is.... Yeah.. and another one is a coping mechanism and a good tool for a lot of people
This touched me. As a 16 year old, I still have an inner child more than anything, when the world just expects me to grow up. Like, I like to play pretend with my characters. It makes me happy, and always has. But meowing and barking like that is considered "furry cringe" nowadays and it kinda sucks. That's just one teeny example. While other girls are moving on in life, I don't want to leave home. I don't want to grow up. I do but I don't. I wouldn't say I miss my childhood, I just wish I could express myself in the childlike way I am. I'm tired of fitting agelike social expressions.I'm relciaming a childhood I never had... and those times I did have I want it back. (For background context I am neurodiverse and have been stuck in my own worlds for years)
From a fellow teen, who just turned 16, I feel you. I’m still into Minecraft, and for my birthday I picked out a MC fox plushie (his name is mosey) I have far too many stuffed animals and I’ve named them all (even if I can’t Rember all their names) and they bring me so much joy. Growing up doesn’t mean that you can’t still be a kid, just keep having fun!
I feel this, at 17, I still love to run around on all fours, collect tons and tons of soft plushies, read children books, craft weird sounds with my vocal cords, play with toys, and watch "kids" shows! Your comment is very relatable to me (also a neurodivergent ;)! Have a great day ❤️
First time I can relate to an entire comment thread. *But then again, I'm a 37-year-old physically disabled dependent Disney kid whose been a furry since grade-school, still lives with his parents, grew up watching kids shows, and still sleeps with the teddy bear I've had since the end of 2nd-grade.*
I’m not an age régresser but I have massive loads of respect for yall. The internet sees anything that’s “different” as gross and they don’t even take the chance to know what it is . I constantly feel like i can’t appreciate the year I’m in now , I’m looking to the future in every second of my day. I know for a fact one day I’m gonna regret not appreciating it . I already dread it. Years of playing outside with chalk is replaced by schoolwork and worrying about how to buy a house . I’ve never actually shifted (or regressed? I do not know correct term sorry) back to my childhood but I seriously wish I could go back to the warm comforts of ball pits and pillow pets .
U CAN U KNW i dont fully age regress either but i love the space and the vibes and it makes me feel. ....cozy and soft. Im still an adult. Even if i get a bit more whiny and childlike im still 26 and can understand adulty themes or enjoy them but the seperate or added space and cozyness of soft blankets and a caregiver or etc makes it so much better?? Like .. Ooo its hard to explain but its just.....nice. and my brother is very helpful in letting me have it
If ur above 18-20 (just cuz id feel more comfortable if the other person is also an adult. And also because tht opens up more avenues to do stuff on your own i am 26 for example.) then i could totally chat more for ideas and share stuff I do at home! :D
One day im gonna learn how to play and be comfortable with baby toys because this video made me feel less ashamed of my involuntary regression and my safe space :)
You shouldn't be ashamed. You truly didn't chose to be that way. You shouldn't be any more ashamed of regression than one should be ashamed about having cancer. You need relief, this is the way your brain evolved to cope. Your brain has the right to relax.
I legit remember when I was 5 or 6 years old and I wanted to look at the spot the dog baby book and my baby sitter told me I was too old for that book but in my mind I was 2-3 years old still. And now I realize that was my core alter with nonspeaking autism Xjenai who was the original personality who never grew up past 3 and how I'm the new host (also nonspeaking autistic) but a middle-little alter
Came back and watched this again because I love this short film. Age regression has been apart of my life for a while and for a long time I didn't know there was a term for it, I was embarrassed that I would act younger than I "should" sometimes without knowing why or having any control over it. I deal with positive agere and negative agere and have been diagnosed with PTSD, I have a little tent in my room and I use items like plushies, rattles, kids toys, shows and pacifiers to keep me as comfortable and feeling safe as possible during my regression, encouraged by my trauma therapist who luckily knows about age regression and age dreaming. I use age dreaming to cope with my mental issues and my therapist has fully encouraged me to use age dreaming as a cope. Films like this are so important bc there's so many p3rvs and creeps and ped0s (like that one anti mental health autoped0 in the comments) and it's important to drown them out with what age regression really is because the s3xu4lizing of it and the erasure of others experiences is so harmful but luckily again, getting drowned out. Hope to see more from y'all in the future
I'm so glad you like the film! Thank you so much for sharing your story. I wish I portrayed slightly young age regression in the film as well, I didn't really have access to any relevant items :( And yes I get what you mean, even just researching for this film to make sure I didn't misrepresent anything led me to kink websites which is really disappointing and potentially triggering for people who regress for s*xual trauma reasons.
As someone who is deadass sick and disgusted of how hypocritical some adults can be (especially when they're being tribalistic over religion, politics etc), i regress from time to time as some sort of defense mechanism, usually by watching animal documentaries on TH-cam (i love watching those on tv as a child), playing the (remakes of) videogames i played a lot as a child, or just crying on my pillows when i'm laying on the bed
I had a wonderful childhood and no trauma, but I miss those wonderful times so much, sometimes all i want is to go back. Age regression helps me do that... It's weird because i do it if im really happy. I hope im not disregarding anyone with trauma who uses this to cope, its just my experience and i don't even do it consciously, it just happens :(
That’s completely valid! You don’t have to have trauma necessarily, if it feels like a safe space for you then that’s all that matters:) as someone who regresses due to trauma you aren’t disregarding or taking anything away from those with trauma, you are valid my friend:)
I’m so sick of people using age regression as an aesthetic. For me it is often involuntary and can happen anywhere at any time, it can become painful to hold back and sometimes gives me stomach troubles or headaches. Other times it can be enjoyable because the safety of being young and inspired by the little things in life allows me to capture that feeling and see the world a little bit more brightly. To all regressors out there. You are not alone. Age regressions vaild, it is safe, and it is yours. No one can take away your escape. And if you’re like me where it happens not just on command then I hope you can find those in your lives that will support you and make you feel safe and small again. Blessed be 💙
Thank you so much!!! My childhood was stolen, and I'm reclaiming it. I'm gonna send this to my therapist to introduce my regression. I am so grateful for you guys explaining it so well. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I'm still a kid. Always had to comfort my mom, put up front to make sure she didn't explode, control my emotions even when I felt like gouging my eyes out, being told my crying was blackmailing...list goes on and on.
@@Marigold_Diaries same here. I'm at the official teenager mark now, and I experienced the weight of emotionally caring for my mother too. I was told that it was fake when I cried too. I hope you know that whoever told you that is wrong, and that you deserve a happy life.
I'm a 16 year old regressor, and this means everything to me. I wanna also say a part of me not being so ashamed of it anymore is my caregiver, i love them. My ages can be really small, and they've helped me a lot. They're a regressor too, so they understand how it can be. We've taken the job of being each others caregivers, and if we're both little at the same time its like I'm hanging out with someone in elementary or pre-k. It can be hard because a lot of people don't understand it or say its invalid, but really agere is a safe coping mechanism. Regressors, you dont have to explain yourself to anyone. You're valid and loved
I’ve never seen a video that made me crying that much. I struggle with some really bad thoughts and my little space helps me to forget all that stuff. That one sentence “...to return to a time before they happened at all.” I can relate that so much... I’m very shy so I don’t talk to anyone because of the thoughts and my age regression because I don’t want to be alone but I know that I’m not the only one... Thank u so much for the video 🥺💕
I didn't know there was a name for this. I'm 41, and I've always been young at heart. It's not unlike me to carry a container of play-doh in my purse, give myself crazy hair-do's, watch old cartoons and movies I loved as a child, or look for shapes in clouds. Yes I do have trauma. But I never connected it to my past...to me, it's almost been a way of rebelling against the way society beats the magic & wonder & play out of you as you get older. I spent most of my childhood/teenage years being shy, trying to "fit in", and caring too much about what others thought of me. Now, I'm embracing my weirdness :) I think if we lose our curiosity and playfulness, we lose ourselves.
One of my friends age regressed around me a lot, and while it made him feel safe, he kinda pushed me into the role of a caregiver without asking me about it. We’re not too close any more, but I wanna learn more about this all so I can understand why
age regression is usually a really useful coping mechanism but often trauma can cause very unhealthy coping mechanisms as well. before maturing as a person or if someone doesn't seek help it's common for people who didn't grow up feeling safe to get overly attached to a safe person. it's usually not that they don't care about how their safe person feels, just that their panicked and grasping for any sort of comfort, but that's definitely not your responsibility. even hurt people have to respect boundaries, im so sorry that your friend didnt. i hope maybe this explanation helped a bit, thank you for still being so kind and understanding and taking care of yourself so well
I don't know how this guy recommended to be, but I'm a mommy with two littles- and every time I think about the hate directed at them it makes me want to go crazy I love being able to reparent them, give them that childhood they never had This video really captures what I love about it for them, and how genuinely beautiful it is
For me, I started regressing involuntarily impurely. Thanks to people like you guys I figured out what I was feeling and how to turn it into a positive experience rather than something that makes me feel terrified and alone. It still feels really weird to talk about it and I still feel ashamed when I have to talk to friends about the why of how I did something when regressed. But they accept me and I’m so glad that there are other people too who accept and spread awareness as well. To me, at least when I do it voluntarily (that’s how I turned it from negative to positive experience, through doing it voluntarily) it feels as if I’m making my self a new childhood, brand new one safe from harm and fear. It almost feels empowering.
i don't have any experience with age regression myself, but for all of y'all here who age regress i just wanna say that you're so very valid and have nothing to be ashamed of :) !!
as someone who age regresses but has to mask all the time, ((as I am in an abusive household that had forced me to grow up fast and constantly forces me to act like an adult)), thank you for this. Regressing has always made me feel so safe, and i wouldn't trade it for anything else. My community has always made me feel so belong, and I love that. being a feminine trans boy little is something I am, and always will be, proud of being. To all the people like me out there reading this, I hope you stay safe and take care. you are loved, you deserve to be loved, and I want all of you to know that.
For me, age regression doesn't let me relive any past times, any what ifs. I'm under no illusion over what happened, the years lost. l can find no comfort in wishing things were different. For me, its a way of watering the child that couldn't get to thrive in full. The pieces that still truly stay, truly love these things and find safety there. It gives something incomplete a way to stay with me now. Its my way of taking with me the dreams I had before, the experiences I couldn't freely live. The softness, the safety, the ability to have fun and comforts without shame or pain. Being denied that safety and freedom of expression very young takes its toll, and the body always keeps score. Its very important to make sure you get to recognize and understand the things that made you truly happy over your life, and nurse the denied chances like a open wound. Its a way to hold a safe present, take what was denied more than it could ever relive a past or truly regress. [Note: This is just my take on similar experiences. Its wonderful to have your own feelings and different ways of coping that do help and work for you 💐]
i started to cry watching this. age regression is something that ive come to use as a normal coping mechanism with my anxiety disorder and frequent panic attacks. but once i do regress involuntarily because of certain things, like shouting, it can be very scary. thank you for summarizing what all of us age regressors are going through in just a short film! my bf (also my cg) will also be watching this to get a better understanding of what i really go through and how he can grow to be the best cg ever!
I understand this all too well. Ive dealt with urge incontinence issues and low interoception all my life and findin Little communities where thats fine and even embraced rly helped me to feel better about my own needs. And thats before even considerin the mental health side of things which plays an even bigger part honestly. 2020 was actually what finally got me to decide to stop tryin to hide my urge incontinence bcuz with everythin shut down i was legit findin it hard to just walk to and from work without pissing myself a little. It was no problem before covid struck cuz public toilets exist, but when suddenly there was nowhere to wee i needed another solution. I alrdy knew by then that my friends accepted me fully as a little but was worried the diapers wud be a dealbreaker... But in fact, no, not a single person in my life treated me any worse cuz of my opting to finally wear diapers rather than keep dealin with frequent leaks and rushes to the toilet as id done all my life. Nvr full blown wettings so i always justified my refusal to use what wud help me bcuz i didnt "rly need" them, but covid restrictions made it so i was suddenly aware that i did in fact rly need them. I cud nvr have envisioned myself openly choosing to wear diapers all the time, let alone choosing that and finding it didnt make anyone treat me worse like id been raised to believe it wud. In fact, one friend i was fishing with once and i had a very noficeable diaper bulge and felt self conscious about it as much as i try to not be... And this friend made that so much easier after bcuz she knows i wear diapers and still they just completely forgot about them in that moment. My bulge seemed like a giant red arrow pting out my incontinence issues and yet... This friend who knows i wear them, completely forgot and suggested we just go swimming in our undies since the fish werent biting xD She didnt even get my subtle "i dont have a change" response either and i had to outright remind her "im wearin a diaper rn, i cant do that". Turns out that not only does no one care that i wear them, they care so little about it that completely forget about it even when it seems to be on full display to me.
As someone who suffers with involuntary age regression and DID, this meant so much to me. I literally dont control when I regress or when I switch to a little alter.
I’m glad people are more open to there experience and able to cope this is such a beautiful way to cope definitely not trying to say it aesthetic I’m saying it beautiful cause the concept is smart just learned about last year so now I’m doing age reg to mostly cope
It took seconds for this short to make me cry. I'm really unfamiliar with age regression but I think I've been regressing for a while. It always seems to happen when I'm stressed, and frankly there have been parts of my life where I've been stressed for weeks on end. Thank you so much for this amazing film!
As a 16 year old regressor, I’m so glad you are able to feel connected to your youth, it’s easy to take it for granted, thank you so much for your kindness, I hope you have an amazing life my friend:)
This is something I really needed. I age regress involuntarily out of stress of memories from my past. I am not very open about it, because of things that have happened, and also due to the fact that I am 16, I have always behaved older than what my bodies age is, and sometimes I feel ashamed and embarrassed. Even though for me personally its a way to cope, I just feel like I need to hide it, due to the stigma, the sexualisation and how people have reacted to me when I have age regressed in front of them involuntarily. To those who age regress, remember that it is okay, and that you have no need to be embarrassed or ashamed. It is okay. There is a safe community here for you all, and I know the world can be stressful, if you are dealing with any bad memories, I know that can be terrifying, but, we are here for you. It is okay to be scared, stressed or even happy and what others say; childish. That is okay. You all deserve happiness, and thank you to everyone who made this short film, I really appreciate it and I want to thank you for shining light on this subject, so others can maybe feel a bit more valid, maybe a bit less scared and for those who aren't aware but are willing to try to understand and comprehend, so they are able to get a bit of insight on the matter.
such a wonderful short film! i wish the people who misunderstood or criticized age regression could watch this and understand. at the end of the day, we’re all just trying to get through this life as best we can. as long as you’re not hurting anyone, you should be able to do whatever makes this journey easier and happier for you.
I just came across this video. I didn't know I needed to hear this. I will admit it, I am fifteen, but I didn't get to experience most of my childhood. Divorce, the yelling, the fighting.. I hated it. Me and my older sister had to take care of my younger sister. I never knew this was a thing, but now I'm glad it is. I wish every one of these people, and those who are about to begin this journey good luck. I'll be joining soon, once I get out of this place. (Using an alt account to prevent hate to my channel.)
@Icicle That’s actually not true, I’m friends with someone around that age who regresses frequently. Being a minor doesn’t make you unable to age regress. Not trying to be rude or anything in case it came off that way, I’m sorry if it did!
I used to age regress a lot more and then my friend forced me to age regress in front of him even though I had previously expressed that I wasn’t comfortable doing that around people. He ruined my safe space. Age regression was a very helpful tool and I did it to feel comfortable but when I was forced it felt almost wrong and it felt unsafe around him. I hope I can use that coping mechanism again at some point without it feeling unsafe because of him.
I'll admit I've always harbored misunderstandings about age regression. You don't owe anyone an explanation about why you age regress or why it's important, of course, least of all me, but I just wanted to say that this film has encouraged me to be more open. Your art is having a positive impact on the world, at least in this tiny corner of it
Two years late to this video but god did I need to see it. Such beautiful representation of how literally anybody can regress and the ways they regress vary greatly. It's a healthy coping skill backed by psychology, and I'm so grateful you all put this together. Thank you
I'm 14, but I age regress to the mental age of around 3 or 4. My little sister with special needs was born when I was 2. I never really had a childhood after that. My parents don't know. I have one of my old pacis that I use at night, and keep hidden in my bedside drawer. Only 2 of my friends know, but they don't really understand.
I cant emphasize how much this video does for people who are trying to understand age regression, this video helped me understand a very important person in my life to a much deeper degree while also allowing me to learn more about myself, this video is a blessing, absolutely every amount of effort and work put into this has helped anyone whos come across it deeply, my deepest and most genuine thanks to the wonderful people who made this
I’m a regressor. Voluntarily, involuntarily, and therapeutical. I have undiagnosed ptsd from a rough childhood I had with my drug addict parents who were negligent and abusive. I’m only now starting to understand and process and handle what’s happened to me and age regression has helped me so much but I just feel so embarrassed and at first I didn’t even know other people did it too and that it was an actual thing. This brought me to tears and opened my eyes to the true reality of age regression and my trauma. Thank you. And to anyone out there in a similar situation to me that might be reading this, you’re a little superhuman and you should be so proud of yourself. ✌️
you can never be too little to be a little, i started regressing at I think 11 years old, and still, years later im still embarrassed about it, it's nothing to be embarrassed about i just feel so alone in little space while also feeling so free
I hate to admit this, but this community was something I unjustly made fun of and was really against about five years ago. Four years ago, I got a change of heart by seeing what those in the community have gone through and realizing it’s not what those who are ignorant think it’s like. I have since become a strong ally and supporter of this beautiful community!! I have also gained friends who are both little and caretakers who are some of the kindest people!! To those in ABDL and age regression, I love you all!!
This is beautiful! Being an age regressor can be so lonely and isolating ppl would rather cast us aside and deem us a weird than take the time to educate themselves on what causes a person to feel the way we do. It’s comforting to know that I’m not all alone in this world.
Let me start off by saying I am not a regressor, but this certainly has warmed my heart. Not everyone has a childhood that's as pretty as sunshine and rainbows. Mine was as dark as a shadow, thanks to the father who has tormented me for years. Now, he's out of my life and gone for good. While, I don't think I would regress, there are parts of my childhood I wish I could relive, such as popping LittleBigPlanet 2 into my PlayStation and playing it for hours, or constructing LEGO sets in my room, even if my hand muscles aren't that strong (since I was born with weak hands and an autistic mind). At least the whole experience helped shape who I am and told me not to be. This film brought to light my mindset and it's also why I've taken an interest in the concept in the multiverse, because it makes me believe there are different worlds that we could escape to someday. Thanks for sharing and creating, I bet this film touched a lot of regressor's hearts, maybe even more than it did mine. :)
I dont regress due to trauma (i regress because of severe anxiety) and this made me cry because it still puts the reasons for my regression into words. I wish all those who have been through any trauma, regressor or not, can recover safely and healthily.
I sometimes age-regress involuntarily when I get triggered. For example, I once saw that there was a tornado warning in my area, and I had an emotional flashback to when I was 9 years old and had to stay after school during a tornado and really wanted to be safe at home with my family, and then, I was 9 again, and I kept begging to go home even though I was already at home. Additionally, I strongly favor children’s media even when not age-regressed (and anything with a rating higher than PG/E10+ has a good chance of triggering me), and I’m a plushie-hoarder, and I suppose the fact that I have a waifu who I treat as my actual girlfriend could fall into pretend play. I also happen to be part of a system. There used to be a little who was more of the get-back-what-you-lost version of age-regression. I suspect that her purpose was inner child therapy. Interestingly, I’m pretty sure that my own age-regression didn’t surface until she integrated with me. (However, my childish interests were always present; I just never moved onto adult interests to begin with.) Ageplay makes me feel sick. I get the feeling that a lot of the doms are pedophiles taking advantage of actual age-regressors so they can fulfill their disgusting fantasies without breaking the law. I hope that, at some point, age-regression as a trauma response with no sexual intent becomes the new normal.
Not me watching this crying under my blanket while I'm feeling little. Why is it just hurts me so much? I just wanna feel little and all but all I can think about is I'm never good enough
I was a trans child at one time and dealt with neglect. Lack of acceptance, religious abuse, dysphoria and parents controlling every aspect of my identity and expression. I tried to hide the feelings in my teen years only for them to resurfacs stronger when i started going through puberty the right way in my 20s and moved away from my home town. I didnt know what I was feeling but it was like an involuntary overwhelming state which can be described as either feeling like a lost child. Or a playful one where I giggle, baby talk and things I wouldn't normally do nor imagined myself doing years ago but in the moment it's like I'm in a different headspace where it just feels natural. I have more control of it to where even though I involuntarily regress I try to keep it on the inside as much as i can and take care of things until I get home. If I'm at home plus my obligations are taken care of and I'm feeling little around my bf I will quickly go from reserved to feeling really warm, happy, making noises of contentment. He gives me safe activities because my regressed age is about 3-4. The same feelings existed years before but I repressed them which caused them to come back stronger
I love this short film. Also thanks for including the little blooper at the end. Offset an unease I didn’t realise I was holding at seeing a seemingly frightened child.
When I watched this, I couldn’t stop crying. I’m an age regressor, when I am regressed/the little fronts, I go by bug. Bug is a 4 year old little who always feels too big in her own skin. I really appreciate this video. It makes me really happy…
Im Pup/Puppy Im an age regressor. Being a little is really feels safe to me. Its like being back in time but without traumas and problems. My cousin is my caregiver and im glad someone understands
I'm 12, and when i was younger i had to grow up WAY faster than my older brother, making nobody my age want to be friends besides my friends that i have right now, it makes me sad how it's so hard to regress when my parents won't support me, or do anything for me, and im uncomfortable around them, making it even harder to regress, and i also am annoyed everyday by my brother, nonstop, even when i ask him to stop, i wish i could run away but sadly i cant, so i cant wait until im older and i can live by myself! 😭
I was lucky to have a safe home growing up, but aghe regression just helps me so much to deal with the affects of growing up with late diagnosed autism. Its incredible how versatile of a coping mechanism it is ^^
I’ve been age regressing for as long as I can remember. I’d act like a baby when I was 6, even. It didn’t start as a coping mechanism. Just a from of play. But now life has hit me, and doing something that has come naturally to me as a way to cope is wonderful. Feeling small is great. Bubbly and animalistic. I regress mostly involuntarily, but that doesn’t mean I get any less joy out of it. Sadly, most of the involuntary times are when I’m stressed - my few words to describe my feelings during those times are “I am very very small and very very scared and the world is very very big.” And that’s okay. Impure regression is okay. It happens. And I’m tired of having to hide it, or be ashamed of it. I’ve always regressed, before I ever had a word for it. And that’s okay.
i just found this video and i cannot believe how well put into words it is! the things i wanna say to my parents about my age regression becomes too much and i overthink waaa. but now i’m going to embrace my age regression and stop feeling ashamed about it, i’ve been doing it for years without even knowing until 2 years ago
thank you so much for this, I've been having a really rough time accepting myself and my regression. The sentence on the bottom of the screen at 3:09 nearly had me in tears because my mom called me really gross names because of my regression. I'm still having a rough time accepting it but this helped a lot. Thank you
I want to thank you for helping me understand what my friend may be going through. I've never known much about him as a youth and he doesn't open up much. However between the binky, stuffys, and a few other things I figured it was something like this. I finally may know how to support him as he's going through some stuff rn. I hope he's OK with me knowing about it but he hasn't hidden it much so I believe he trusted me. I'm going to tell him that I don't judge him, his coping habits are valid, and there's no reason at all to need to be sorry about any of it. I feel like a bad friend because I got scared and accused him of leaving me behind for new friends to replace me. Now I realize he needed to be around people like him so he could feel safe. I feel terrible and I hope he will forgive me.
Ive been through a lot of mental abuse over the years, and ive found that age regression is the safest form of coping for me… its good to be able to be small and feel taken care of by someone actually putting in the effort to not hurt you, because I didn’t grow up with that, my parents “trying” was always constant criticism, harmful words, belittling my resulting feelings, nitpicking at every little thing, and honestly a ton of verbal bullying that is even worse then what I’d get at school. I’ve lived so long having to repress my emotions, it’s nice having people that won’t get angry at me for expressing them anymore…
this made me break down into complete tears all the quotes made me feel so seen - thank you for helping me remember its okay to be "too little" sometimes
I age regress and this short film helps me feel better I've regressed since I was like 9 I'm 14 now it's been hard for me to explain myself so I've stopped explaining it to people
i'm fairly new to my regression (at least knowing what it is/calling it that), and while i've found a sense of community online, i'm afraid to let myself embrace it. i don't know how to find caregivers or how to hide my regression from my parents, but i'm hoping one day ill be able to let myself comfortably regress :)
As a minor who grew up and matured too quickly, I never got to have that innocent childhood. As the line, "We were too little, but now its too late." I was too little to understand it all to the point I began to learn and accept it, and now it's too late to go back to being a kid. As an age reggressing minor, I age regress from 4-6 years old. So, about the ages before I started to lose the innocence I couldn't keep. My only thing is that, when I regress, it's like I'm a different person. It comforts me to act like a kid again, but I feel weird referring to that person as me. So when I regress, I'm a little girl name Bon, not Jovi (ik it's a reference t the band, but I wanted them to connect in some way). If people mistake that for DID, either me or Bon will have to explain it, and Bon doesn't really know how. So I avoid that situation at all costs. Anyways, thanks for listening to my Ted talk, but I just had to share that however you regress, it doesn't matter. You fit in in this community. Edit: I have figured out that bon has manifested into an alter. I now regress to Lili, 4-5.
i love this video so much. i love all the actors that are pictured and how they look so happy, i love the gentle music ans rhe soothing voice. i personally have age regressed a few times and some of my headmates are younger, so I'm grateful that there are people that see and care enough to address that this exists. thank you so much for making this.
Thank you for making this video. I feel it was made with love and care. I hope it will help some people accept this beautiful part of theirs. You are awesome. Take care
As someone studying psychology, people regress in different forms constantly, especially today with video games, and movies. So now more then ever even those who word against it, they feel they want to be back in a specific time again is a form of regression, wanting a simpler way to think, as if you were a child again (older ppl). Etc, I have a lot of friends who are Regressors and honestly I hope that in doing so they can feel as if that trauma they have disappears, so they can feel more free in their day to day, but as anything else regression is a coping mechanism. even then I hope you all find some peace in all that has happened. 😊
Thankyou for making this it made me cry not gonna lie. I don't feel like my childhood was that bad but when everyone else talks about their childhood I feel like they had it better because of the way they were treated. I do tend to water down what I go though tho but being little has helped me just not while involuntarily.
i regress because I didn't get the importance of play as a child. I had toys but never played with them. I cant remember the real reason why, but it might have been because mom or dad never played with me and because my mom was over protective, i never had friends my age so the friends I did have were my dads friends kids who were older and thought it was too childish to have toys. video games were the cool thing. Now, im 22, I collect action figures and care bears and beanie babies. I dont play with them, but they give me comfort. I like having that small sense of childhood. The care bears helped me out of a very dark time in my life, even helped me feel comfort when I made the big decision of trying to overcome my fear of dentists. I don't regress as far back as others do, but I get its importance, its sense of security and safety.
Thank you for bringing meaning to something so misunderstood . I nearly cried as I watched this , but fear and self doubt have robbed me of emotions . My life is robotic ,at times I am almost machine like . But then there are those times when I can be human , if only for a short while . Dreamer
One may naturally experience this blissful age regression once you become a parent...and again as a grandparent..and if you're lucky - again as great-grandparent. This I know is true x
I have very severe trauma from my caregivers leaving me, and I've been battling this war in my head with my littlespace. I run and hide and curl up and cry instead of letting myself be happy. I sent this to my boyfriend of now almost a year ( I recently opened up about being little ) and he said that he cried while watching this because he imagined my joy in this video. He imagined me doing the things that the actors were doing here, and said that joy was the most beautiful thing he's ever seen.
something about this video is making me uncontrollably sob like i love my regression cus it gives me the childhood i never had but it also brings me so much grief bc i’ll never truly get to be a kid again. :(
I actually started tearing up while watching this I'm a little in the system Sometimes the world is scary I help my system feel what joy we missed out on from childhood, and even re-experience the small happy times
I love this short film and I'm glad they explained everything about age regression... bc I use age regression as a way to cope bc of my traumatic experience I had this year. It was very awful and thanks to age regression I found a safe space for me. I use stuffies rattles pacis blankies toys stuff to eat and little gear that helps me too. Watching movies and cartoons help me too. So seeing this really helps me out. Thank u
I think I’m gonna cry just watching this. I didn’t grow up in a horrible household, but I’m coming to realize how it affected me as I grow up. And as I go about my life as who I am now, I’ve come to realize some things about myself. I could spend hours in a coloring book, or popping bubbles, or just looking at the woods. I love playing with kids, because it reawakens that in me, being able to just let go. But I think I might be something different. I think maybe I’m meant to be a caretaker. Because, more than loving my orange juice with apple slices to dip in peanut butter, I love cutting the apple, putting it into a cute bowl I searched through a Once Upon A Child for, and setting it in front of the face of a smiling kid. Maybe that’s just parenthood, but I think part of me can connect with my inner child most when I’m playing with another kid. And it’s not right for me to process my issues through someone else, of course, but I can understand why people would age regress. When I was in school, I would see kids who helped out with the special needs kids, and I couldn’t help but glare at them. The kids who would go and offer fake help to them, smile at them and say they were best friends and then go and make fun of them behind their backs. I remember walking through the halls, hearing them call the same kids they were supposed to be best friends with slurs, pointing and laughing at their drawings like art isn’t an expression of emotion. I don’t ever want to be like that. If I ever get into that kind of occupation, or even just volunteer, I want to make sure I love and accept every part of every person I help. I want to try and pour out enough love to triple the amount of hate I heard reverberating off those walls. And if the way to do that is blowing bubbles, then that’s even better.
I don’t try to justify or explain my regression. I don’t need to explain myself to anyone. And the people least qualified to vilify me for it are the ones who facilitated the need for it in the first place.
Wow, I am sincerely impressed by your insight.
Exactly 💯 thank you for saying that, I'm a victim of some fucked up stuff and if I have to explain to every single person, why I do it, I think I would run out of words, like I can't control it
Exactly this. Thank you.
If you’re happy with it that’s all that matters.
Age regression is a mental illness, you using a fucking crib at 30 years old is crazy
I didnt get a safe childhood, now I get to give myself one
me too
Same :D
Me too :)
Same 💛
Exactly! ( I don’t agere but I do get it :) )
This perfectly put into words what I've been trying to explain to my mom, I told her about my regression so I could buy an adult paci but shes still very iffy
My channel do live ddlg and abdl lifestyle
it's been 4 months, did you manage to convince her? if not I hope you can in the future
Same with my mum. She's still trying to adjust
@@littlepumpkinbearxxx miss my mum lost my mum two weeks ago from cancer she watch my channel ddlg abdl age regression little space mental health talk my channel
@@babyprincessplayground4250 I'm so sorry. Age regression is a great coping mechanism. I use it to help me deal with trauma and stuff
I literally broke down at 'too late' ill never get back what they took from me even if i mimick it through regression, and that will always hurt more than i can ever put into words
I am so terribly sorry I wish I could hug you right now if that's alright. Not everyone in this world is horribly fucked up as them. I promise you. 😢 -sincerely a DID system
I did too. I'm so glad someone put this into words.
To mimic something is a powerful thing in its own right: Sousa's infamous piccolo counterpoint from Stars and Stripes was a mimic of a drum line.
I literally cried watching this. Thank you so much for putting into words what's so hard to explain to most. Knowing I'm truly not alone in this helps so much.
I watched this and i cried too. My Father is accepting me as a little Boy . I'm so happy about it.
Cried 💀
If only my parents would understand
@@RoughRiderRequiemYou prob need attention
@@RoughRiderRequiem Yes, oh no spooky, emotions
As someone who started age regressing at the age of 13 this absolutely amazing to see and is truly a masterpiece
Thank you for making this
I started doing it a month ago (just made an oc since I’m too embarrassed to dress)
I am not a regressor, but I have been doing my best to support those who are. I don’t fully understand age regression and this video is doing an amazing job at explaining it to me and others who are trying to understand. Thank you for your help.
The main reason people don’t like it is because they get agere mixed up with ddlg
@@Frogs12..I’m not gonna look up what DDLG is, sorry but no, I can infer from the stereotypes surrounding age regression that it’s something inappropriate. And hey, I’m sorry if you’re struggling with someone who doesn’t understand you. Or you’re like me and don’t understand it yourself! 😅
@@stellaredacted3727age regression is when someone, here it can be an adult or a minor,goes to a child mental state. It's a coping mechanism often used in therapy, many age regressors use it to cope with childhood trauma,stress, r4pe ect. DDLG, DDLB,MDLG and MDLB in an other hand is sexual a kink, often associated with ABDL and BDSM, it's a part of ageplay which is when an adult pretends to be either older for the Dom or younger for the sub it's can be the other way around but in general it like that this one even if it can be sfw it's always sexual. Unfortunately Age Regression is always misunderstood as ageplay and people are grossed out by a coping mechanism which is really sad. Hope I helped a bit 😅👍
Same! I have a friend who’s a little and it’s interesting to do research on
@@Frogs12.. THIS. THIS. THISSSSS I can't tell you how many people I argued with, like tell me you don't know the difference without telling me. Ones a k+nk which is.... Yeah.. and another one is a coping mechanism and a good tool for a lot of people
This touched me. As a 16 year old, I still have an inner child more than anything, when the world just expects me to grow up. Like, I like to play pretend with my characters. It makes me happy, and always has. But meowing and barking like that is considered "furry cringe" nowadays and it kinda sucks. That's just one teeny example. While other girls are moving on in life, I don't want to leave home. I don't want to grow up. I do but I don't. I wouldn't say I miss my childhood, I just wish I could express myself in the childlike way I am. I'm tired of fitting agelike social expressions.I'm relciaming a childhood I never had... and those times I did have I want it back. (For background context I am neurodiverse and have been stuck in my own worlds for years)
respect. i also have been stuck in my own worlds, and i just got out of one, only sightly though.
From a fellow teen, who just turned 16, I feel you. I’m still into Minecraft, and for my birthday I picked out a MC fox plushie (his name is mosey) I have far too many stuffed animals and I’ve named them all (even if I can’t Rember all their names) and they bring me so much joy. Growing up doesn’t mean that you can’t still be a kid, just keep having fun!
I feel this, at 17, I still love to run around on all fours, collect tons and tons of soft plushies, read children books, craft weird sounds with my vocal cords, play with toys, and watch "kids" shows! Your comment is very relatable to me (also a neurodivergent ;)! Have a great day ❤️
@lpsjinxrose2516 you have a good day too! 😊
First time I can relate to an entire comment thread.
*But then again, I'm a 37-year-old physically disabled dependent Disney kid whose been a furry since grade-school, still lives with his parents, grew up watching kids shows, and still sleeps with the teddy bear I've had since the end of 2nd-grade.*
I’m not an age régresser but I have massive loads of respect for yall. The internet sees anything that’s “different” as gross and they don’t even take the chance to know what it is . I constantly feel like i can’t appreciate the year I’m in now , I’m looking to the future in every second of my day. I know for a fact one day I’m gonna regret not appreciating it . I already dread it. Years of playing outside with chalk is replaced by schoolwork and worrying about how to buy a house . I’ve never actually shifted (or regressed? I do not know correct term sorry) back to my childhood but I seriously wish I could go back to the warm comforts of ball pits and pillow pets .
U CAN U KNW i dont fully age regress either but i love the space and the vibes and it makes me feel. ....cozy and soft. Im still an adult. Even if i get a bit more whiny and childlike im still 26 and can understand adulty themes or enjoy them but the seperate or added space and cozyness of soft blankets and a caregiver or etc makes it so much better?? Like ..
Ooo its hard to explain but its just.....nice. and my brother is very helpful in letting me have it
If ur above 18-20 (just cuz id feel more comfortable if the other person is also an adult. And also because tht opens up more avenues to do stuff on your own i am 26 for example.) then i could totally chat more for ideas and share stuff I do at home! :D
@@aidenflame1576 in my opinion i do like the idea of going to your inner child
But like the gross and sexual ones are why the Internet is turned off
One day im gonna learn how to play and be comfortable with baby toys because this video made me feel less ashamed of my involuntary regression and my safe space :)
You shouldn't be ashamed. You truly didn't chose to be that way. You shouldn't be any more ashamed of regression than one should be ashamed about having cancer.
You need relief, this is the way your brain evolved to cope. Your brain has the right to relax.
dude don't be ashamed! do what u love
cringe culture is dead
@@xx_d0ra3m0n_xxYESSS XD
I legit remember when I was 5 or 6 years old and I wanted to look at the spot the dog baby book and my baby sitter told me I was too old for that book but in my mind I was 2-3 years old still. And now I realize that was my core alter with nonspeaking autism Xjenai who was the original personality who never grew up past 3 and how I'm the new host (also nonspeaking autistic) but a middle-little alter
You should never be ashamed of regression. Its healthy coping and doesnt harm anyone.
Came back and watched this again because I love this short film. Age regression has been apart of my life for a while and for a long time I didn't know there was a term for it, I was embarrassed that I would act younger than I "should" sometimes without knowing why or having any control over it. I deal with positive agere and negative agere and have been diagnosed with PTSD, I have a little tent in my room and I use items like plushies, rattles, kids toys, shows and pacifiers to keep me as comfortable and feeling safe as possible during my regression, encouraged by my trauma therapist who luckily knows about age regression and age dreaming. I use age dreaming to cope with my mental issues and my therapist has fully encouraged me to use age dreaming as a cope. Films like this are so important bc there's so many p3rvs and creeps and ped0s (like that one anti mental health autoped0 in the comments) and it's important to drown them out with what age regression really is because the s3xu4lizing of it and the erasure of others experiences is so harmful but luckily again, getting drowned out. Hope to see more from y'all in the future
I'm so glad you like the film! Thank you so much for sharing your story. I wish I portrayed slightly young age regression in the film as well, I didn't really have access to any relevant items :( And yes I get what you mean, even just researching for this film to make sure I didn't misrepresent anything led me to kink websites which is really disappointing and potentially triggering for people who regress for s*xual trauma reasons.
As someone who is deadass sick and disgusted of how hypocritical some adults can be (especially when they're being tribalistic over religion, politics etc), i regress from time to time as some sort of defense mechanism, usually by watching animal documentaries on
TH-cam (i love watching those on tv as a child), playing the (remakes of) videogames i played a lot as a child, or just crying on my pillows when i'm laying on the bed
I had a wonderful childhood and no trauma, but I miss those wonderful times so much, sometimes all i want is to go back. Age regression helps me do that... It's weird because i do it if im really happy.
I hope im not disregarding anyone with trauma who uses this to cope, its just my experience and i don't even do it consciously, it just happens :(
That’s completely valid! You don’t have to have trauma necessarily, if it feels like a safe space for you then that’s all that matters:) as someone who regresses due to trauma you aren’t disregarding or taking anything away from those with trauma, you are valid my friend:)
This!!!^^^
@whyarenohandlesavailable Same! Except my brain doesn’t regress, so I consider myself an age dreamer. I just miss childhood! 🌸
You do you!! I do the same thing, my childhood was complicated but mostly good 💜
Though age regression is a coping mechanism, you don’t need any specific thing to do it😄
I’m so sick of people using age regression as an aesthetic. For me it is often involuntary and can happen anywhere at any time, it can become painful to hold back and sometimes gives me stomach troubles or headaches.
Other times it can be enjoyable because the safety of being young and inspired by the little things in life allows me to capture that feeling and see the world a little bit more brightly.
To all regressors out there. You are not alone. Age regressions vaild, it is safe, and it is yours. No one can take away your escape. And if you’re like me where it happens not just on command then I hope you can find those in your lives that will support you and make you feel safe and small again.
Blessed be 💙
Thank you so much!!! My childhood was stolen, and I'm reclaiming it. I'm gonna send this to my therapist to introduce my regression. I am so grateful for you guys explaining it so well. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Yes. Never. Had parents or fun. Just. Chaos.now I can. Choose
@@ShnarfKat I know how that feels, being stuck in a loop of never knowing what's gonna happen next. I'm glad you've found what you need to be happy.
I'm still a kid. Always had to comfort my mom, put up front to make sure she didn't explode, control my emotions even when I felt like gouging my eyes out, being told my crying was blackmailing...list goes on and on.
@@Marigold_Diaries same here. I'm at the official teenager mark now, and I experienced the weight of emotionally caring for my mother too. I was told that it was fake when I cried too. I hope you know that whoever told you that is wrong, and that you deserve a happy life.
Regressing is so safe for me I deserve to re live a childhood I can love instead of hate
I'm a 16 year old regressor, and this means everything to me. I wanna also say a part of me not being so ashamed of it anymore is my caregiver, i love them. My ages can be really small, and they've helped me a lot. They're a regressor too, so they understand how it can be. We've taken the job of being each others caregivers, and if we're both little at the same time its like I'm hanging out with someone in elementary or pre-k. It can be hard because a lot of people don't understand it or say its invalid, but really agere is a safe coping mechanism. Regressors, you dont have to explain yourself to anyone. You're valid and loved
I’ve never seen a video that made me crying that much. I struggle with some really bad thoughts and my little space helps me to forget all that stuff. That one sentence “...to return to a time before they happened at all.” I can relate that so much...
I’m very shy so I don’t talk to anyone because of the thoughts and my age regression because I don’t want to be alone but I know that I’m not the only one...
Thank u so much for the video 🥺💕
Mee too
I didn't know there was a name for this. I'm 41, and I've always been young at heart. It's not unlike me to carry a container of play-doh in my purse, give myself crazy hair-do's, watch old cartoons and movies I loved as a child, or look for shapes in clouds. Yes I do have trauma. But I never connected it to my past...to me, it's almost been a way of rebelling against the way society beats the magic & wonder & play out of you as you get older. I spent most of my childhood/teenage years being shy, trying to "fit in", and caring too much about what others thought of me. Now, I'm embracing my weirdness :)
I think if we lose our curiosity and playfulness, we lose ourselves.
As someone from new gen it makes me so happy to hear this, i hope ur inner child is healing well
“We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.” - George Bernard Shaw
One of my friends age regressed around me a lot, and while it made him feel safe, he kinda pushed me into the role of a caregiver without asking me about it. We’re not too close any more, but I wanna learn more about this all so I can understand why
age regression is usually a really useful coping mechanism but often trauma can cause very unhealthy coping mechanisms as well. before maturing as a person or if someone doesn't seek help it's common for people who didn't grow up feeling safe to get overly attached to a safe person. it's usually not that they don't care about how their safe person feels, just that their panicked and grasping for any sort of comfort, but that's definitely not your responsibility. even hurt people have to respect boundaries, im so sorry that your friend didnt. i hope maybe this explanation helped a bit, thank you for still being so kind and understanding and taking care of yourself so well
I don't know how this guy recommended to be, but I'm a mommy with two littles- and every time I think about the hate directed at them it makes me want to go crazy
I love being able to reparent them, give them that childhood they never had
This video really captures what I love about it for them, and how genuinely beautiful it is
thats cute i hope the best for you three ❤
I’m a Mommy as well. Whenever I see any of my Little’s being attacked by people. Mama Bear comes out. 🐻
For me, I started regressing involuntarily impurely. Thanks to people like you guys I figured out what I was feeling and how to turn it into a positive experience rather than something that makes me feel terrified and alone. It still feels really weird to talk about it and I still feel ashamed when I have to talk to friends about the why of how I did something when regressed. But they accept me and I’m so glad that there are other people too who accept and spread awareness as well.
To me, at least when I do it voluntarily (that’s how I turned it from negative to positive experience, through doing it voluntarily) it feels as if I’m making my self a new childhood, brand new one safe from harm and fear. It almost feels empowering.
i don't have any experience with age regression myself, but for all of y'all here who age regress i just wanna say that you're so very valid and have nothing to be ashamed of :) !!
Thank you. I appreciate people like you who don't shame us for age regression. ❤
as someone who age regresses but has to mask all the time, ((as I am in an abusive household that had forced me to grow up fast and constantly forces me to act like an adult)), thank you for this. Regressing has always made me feel so safe, and i wouldn't trade it for anything else. My community has always made me feel so belong, and I love that. being a feminine trans boy little is something I am, and always will be, proud of being.
To all the people like me out there reading this, I hope you stay safe and take care.
you are loved, you deserve to be loved, and I want all of you to know that.
How are you doing now bud??
For me, age regression doesn't let me relive any past times, any what ifs. I'm under no illusion over what happened, the years lost. l can find no comfort in wishing things were different. For me, its a way of watering the child that couldn't get to thrive in full. The pieces that still truly stay, truly love these things and find safety there. It gives something incomplete a way to stay with me now. Its my way of taking with me the dreams I had before, the experiences I couldn't freely live. The softness, the safety, the ability to have fun and comforts without shame or pain. Being denied that safety and freedom of expression very young takes its toll, and the body always keeps score. Its very important to make sure you get to recognize and understand the things that made you truly happy over your life, and nurse the denied chances like a open wound.
Its a way to hold a safe present, take what was denied more than it could ever relive a past or truly regress.
[Note: This is just my take on similar experiences. Its wonderful to have your own feelings and different ways of coping that do help and work for you 💐]
i started to cry watching this. age regression is something that ive come to use as a normal coping mechanism with my anxiety disorder and frequent panic attacks. but once i do regress involuntarily because of certain things, like shouting, it can be very scary. thank you for summarizing what all of us age regressors are going through in just a short film! my bf (also my cg) will also be watching this to get a better understanding of what i really go through and how he can grow to be the best cg ever!
“We don’t choose our upbringing, we accept it” hits so hard.
This is so beautifully made and explained and the filmography is immaculate. Well done.
Honestly little space helps me cope with daily life my incontinence and just my daily mental health, it brings joy to my life
I understand this all too well. Ive dealt with urge incontinence issues and low interoception all my life and findin Little communities where thats fine and even embraced rly helped me to feel better about my own needs. And thats before even considerin the mental health side of things which plays an even bigger part honestly.
2020 was actually what finally got me to decide to stop tryin to hide my urge incontinence bcuz with everythin shut down i was legit findin it hard to just walk to and from work without pissing myself a little. It was no problem before covid struck cuz public toilets exist, but when suddenly there was nowhere to wee i needed another solution.
I alrdy knew by then that my friends accepted me fully as a little but was worried the diapers wud be a dealbreaker... But in fact, no, not a single person in my life treated me any worse cuz of my opting to finally wear diapers rather than keep dealin with frequent leaks and rushes to the toilet as id done all my life. Nvr full blown wettings so i always justified my refusal to use what wud help me bcuz i didnt "rly need" them, but covid restrictions made it so i was suddenly aware that i did in fact rly need them.
I cud nvr have envisioned myself openly choosing to wear diapers all the time, let alone choosing that and finding it didnt make anyone treat me worse like id been raised to believe it wud.
In fact, one friend i was fishing with once and i had a very noficeable diaper bulge and felt self conscious about it as much as i try to not be... And this friend made that so much easier after bcuz she knows i wear diapers and still they just completely forgot about them in that moment. My bulge seemed like a giant red arrow pting out my incontinence issues and yet... This friend who knows i wear them, completely forgot and suggested we just go swimming in our undies since the fish werent biting xD She didnt even get my subtle "i dont have a change" response either and i had to outright remind her "im wearin a diaper rn, i cant do that".
Turns out that not only does no one care that i wear them, they care so little about it that completely forget about it even when it seems to be on full display to me.
As someone who suffers with involuntary age regression and DID, this meant so much to me. I literally dont control when I regress or when I switch to a little alter.
I’m glad people are more open to there experience and able to cope this is such a beautiful way to cope definitely not trying to say it aesthetic I’m saying it beautiful cause the concept is smart just learned about last year so now I’m doing age reg to mostly cope
I wonder did you have to almost make me cry like that?? This speaks volumes for so many different reasons.
It took seconds for this short to make me cry. I'm really unfamiliar with age regression but I think I've been regressing for a while. It always seems to happen when I'm stressed, and frankly there have been parts of my life where I've been stressed for weeks on end. Thank you so much for this amazing film!
As a 10 year old I will cherish my youth
As a 16 year old regressor, I’m so glad you are able to feel connected to your youth, it’s easy to take it for granted, thank you so much for your kindness, I hope you have an amazing life my friend:)
@Ssomeeoonee
i'm around your age and yet i have already suffered. i'm considering trying out age regressing
Going back to the time before anxiety took hold of me at the ripe old age of six is just... refreshing
This is something I really needed. I age regress involuntarily out of stress of memories from my past. I am not very open about it, because of things that have happened, and also due to the fact that I am 16, I have always behaved older than what my bodies age is, and sometimes I feel ashamed and embarrassed. Even though for me personally its a way to cope, I just feel like I need to hide it, due to the stigma, the sexualisation and how people have reacted to me when I have age regressed in front of them involuntarily.
To those who age regress, remember that it is okay, and that you have no need to be embarrassed or ashamed.
It is okay. There is a safe community here for you all, and I know the world can be stressful, if you are dealing with any bad memories, I know that can be terrifying, but, we are here for you. It is okay to be scared, stressed or even happy and what others say; childish. That is okay.
You all deserve happiness, and thank you to everyone who made this short film, I really appreciate it and I want to thank you for shining light on this subject, so others can maybe feel a bit more valid, maybe a bit less scared and for those who aren't aware but are willing to try to understand and comprehend, so they are able to get a bit of insight on the matter.
such a wonderful short film! i wish the people who misunderstood or criticized age regression could watch this and understand. at the end of the day, we’re all just trying to get through this life as best we can. as long as you’re not hurting anyone, you should be able to do whatever makes this journey easier and happier for you.
This short film is amazing, it puts in to words perfectly how so many littles including myself feel, Thankyou for making it :)
wasn't expecting to cry but here i am
I just came across this video. I didn't know I needed to hear this. I will admit it, I am fifteen, but I didn't get to experience most of my childhood. Divorce, the yelling, the fighting.. I hated it. Me and my older sister had to take care of my younger sister. I never knew this was a thing, but now I'm glad it is. I wish every one of these people, and those who are about to begin this journey good luck. I'll be joining soon, once I get out of this place. (Using an alt account to prevent hate to my channel.)
@Icicle That’s actually not true, I’m friends with someone around that age who regresses frequently. Being a minor doesn’t make you unable to age regress. Not trying to be rude or anything in case it came off that way, I’m sorry if it did!
@newtonpud anyone can regress, regressing just means regressing to a age younger than you are now
@newtonpud uwm. im sowy but anyone can regress : O
@newtonpudanyone can age regress. You don't necessarily have to regress to a baby or toddler. There's little space, middle space and big space.
I used to age regress a lot more and then my friend forced me to age regress in front of him even though I had previously expressed that I wasn’t comfortable doing that around people. He ruined my safe space. Age regression was a very helpful tool and I did it to feel comfortable but when I was forced it felt almost wrong and it felt unsafe around him. I hope I can use that coping mechanism again at some point without it feeling unsafe because of him.
that's horrible.
I'll admit I've always harbored misunderstandings about age regression. You don't owe anyone an explanation about why you age regress or why it's important, of course, least of all me, but I just wanted to say that this film has encouraged me to be more open. Your art is having a positive impact on the world, at least in this tiny corner of it
Two years late to this video but god did I need to see it. Such beautiful representation of how literally anybody can regress and the ways they regress vary greatly. It's a healthy coping skill backed by psychology, and I'm so grateful you all put this together. Thank you
I'm 14, but I age regress to the mental age of around 3 or 4. My little sister with special needs was born when I was 2. I never really had a childhood after that. My parents don't know. I have one of my old pacis that I use at night, and keep hidden in my bedside drawer. Only 2 of my friends know, but they don't really understand.
I cant emphasize how much this video does for people who are trying to understand age regression, this video helped me understand a very important person in my life to a much deeper degree while also allowing me to learn more about myself, this video is a blessing, absolutely every amount of effort and work put into this has helped anyone whos come across it deeply, my deepest and most genuine thanks to the wonderful people who made this
I’m a regressor. Voluntarily, involuntarily, and therapeutical. I have undiagnosed ptsd from a rough childhood I had with my drug addict parents who were negligent and abusive. I’m only now starting to understand and process and handle what’s happened to me and age regression has helped me so much but I just feel so embarrassed and at first I didn’t even know other people did it too and that it was an actual thing. This brought me to tears and opened my eyes to the true reality of age regression and my trauma. Thank you. And to anyone out there in a similar situation to me that might be reading this, you’re a little superhuman and you should be so proud of yourself. ✌️
you can never be too little to be a little, i started regressing at I think 11 years old, and still, years later im still embarrassed about it, it's nothing to be embarrassed about i just feel so alone in little space while also feeling so free
I hate to admit this, but this community was something I unjustly made fun of and was really against about five years ago. Four years ago, I got a change of heart by seeing what those in the community have gone through and realizing it’s not what those who are ignorant think it’s like. I have since become a strong ally and supporter of this beautiful community!! I have also gained friends who are both little and caretakers who are some of the kindest people!! To those in ABDL and age regression, I love you all!!
as an age regressor with a lot of shame, i really needed to see this. thankyou so much.
Thank you for making this. I be honest, this a topic I don't understand but you put it beautifully in words that I can.
I am so happy to finally see a short film made about my community. Thank you so much ❤️
This is beautiful! Being an age regressor can be so lonely and isolating ppl would rather cast us aside and deem us a weird than take the time to educate themselves on what causes a person to feel the way we do. It’s comforting to know that I’m not all alone in this world.
This genuinely made me cry my eyes out
Thank you so much for putting this into words
Let me start off by saying I am not a regressor, but this certainly has warmed my heart. Not everyone has a childhood that's as pretty as sunshine and rainbows. Mine was as dark as a shadow, thanks to the father who has tormented me for years. Now, he's out of my life and gone for good. While, I don't think I would regress, there are parts of my childhood I wish I could relive, such as popping LittleBigPlanet 2 into my PlayStation and playing it for hours, or constructing LEGO sets in my room, even if my hand muscles aren't that strong (since I was born with weak hands and an autistic mind). At least the whole experience helped shape who I am and told me not to be. This film brought to light my mindset and it's also why I've taken an interest in the concept in the multiverse, because it makes me believe there are different worlds that we could escape to someday. Thanks for sharing and creating, I bet this film touched a lot of regressor's hearts, maybe even more than it did mine. :)
I dont regress due to trauma (i regress because of severe anxiety) and this made me cry because it still puts the reasons for my regression into words. I wish all those who have been through any trauma, regressor or not, can recover safely and healthily.
I sometimes age-regress involuntarily when I get triggered. For example, I once saw that there was a tornado warning in my area, and I had an emotional flashback to when I was 9 years old and had to stay after school during a tornado and really wanted to be safe at home with my family, and then, I was 9 again, and I kept begging to go home even though I was already at home. Additionally, I strongly favor children’s media even when not age-regressed (and anything with a rating higher than PG/E10+ has a good chance of triggering me), and I’m a plushie-hoarder, and I suppose the fact that I have a waifu who I treat as my actual girlfriend could fall into pretend play.
I also happen to be part of a system. There used to be a little who was more of the get-back-what-you-lost version of age-regression. I suspect that her purpose was inner child therapy. Interestingly, I’m pretty sure that my own age-regression didn’t surface until she integrated with me. (However, my childish interests were always present; I just never moved onto adult interests to begin with.)
Ageplay makes me feel sick. I get the feeling that a lot of the doms are pedophiles taking advantage of actual age-regressors so they can fulfill their disgusting fantasies without breaking the law. I hope that, at some point, age-regression as a trauma response with no sexual intent becomes the new normal.
Not me watching this crying under my blanket while I'm feeling little. Why is it just hurts me so much? I just wanna feel little and all but all I can think about is I'm never good enough
I was a trans child at one time and dealt with neglect. Lack of acceptance, religious abuse, dysphoria and parents controlling every aspect of my identity and expression. I tried to hide the feelings in my teen years only for them to resurfacs stronger when i started going through puberty the right way in my 20s and moved away from my home town. I didnt know what I was feeling but it was like an involuntary overwhelming state which can be described as either feeling like a lost child. Or a playful one where I giggle, baby talk and things I wouldn't normally do nor imagined myself doing years ago but in the moment it's like I'm in a different headspace where it just feels natural. I have more control of it to where even though I involuntarily regress I try to keep it on the inside as much as i can and take care of things until I get home.
If I'm at home plus my obligations are taken care of and I'm feeling little around my bf I will quickly go from reserved to feeling really warm, happy, making noises of contentment. He gives me safe activities because my regressed age is about 3-4. The same feelings existed years before but I repressed them which caused them to come back stronger
This is making me sob, this is a perfect representation of exactly what regression means
As a regressor in a system with quite a few littles, this explains it perfectly. Thank you. I can really tell that real feelings were put into this
My partner goes into little space and I am watching these videos to understand more about age regression
I’m 14 and my life has been really bad and my only escape is age regression it really helps
You’re still a child, I’m so sorry 💔🫂
@@MsTinkerbelle87 it’s ok my life just gets worse the older I get so when I’m little I feel better
this video makes me want to cry for some reason. it makes me feel like ive missed out on a lot.
this made me cry, knowing that I'm not alone being a flip. people needt to know about sfw ageer. thanks you for making this
I love this short film.
Also thanks for including the little blooper at the end. Offset an unease I didn’t realise I was holding at seeing a seemingly frightened child.
This music is peaceful. It makes me feel very smol and tired.
When I watched this, I couldn’t stop crying. I’m an age regressor, when I am regressed/the little fronts, I go by bug. Bug is a 4 year old little who always feels too big in her own skin. I really appreciate this video. It makes me really happy…
Im Pup/Puppy Im an age regressor. Being a little is really feels safe to me. Its like being back in time but without traumas and problems. My cousin is my caregiver and im glad someone understands
I'm 12, and when i was younger i had to grow up WAY faster than my older brother, making nobody my age want to be friends besides my friends that i have right now, it makes me sad how it's so hard to regress when my parents won't support me, or do anything for me, and im uncomfortable around them, making it even harder to regress, and i also am annoyed everyday by my brother, nonstop, even when i ask him to stop, i wish i could run away but sadly i cant, so i cant wait until im older and i can live by myself! 😭
Stay strong and safe
fow a 12 yeaw owd your spweech is weawwy incwedibwe :D
1:10 ITS MEE :D love the work you produced!!
AW, YOUR GORGEOUS :)
I was lucky to have a safe home growing up, but aghe regression just helps me so much to deal with the affects of growing up with late diagnosed autism. Its incredible how versatile of a coping mechanism it is ^^
I’ve been age regressing for as long as I can remember. I’d act like a baby when I was 6, even. It didn’t start as a coping mechanism. Just a from of play.
But now life has hit me, and doing something that has come naturally to me as a way to cope is wonderful. Feeling small is great. Bubbly and animalistic.
I regress mostly involuntarily, but that doesn’t mean I get any less joy out of it. Sadly, most of the involuntary times are when I’m stressed - my few words to describe my feelings during those times are “I am very very small and very very scared and the world is very very big.” And that’s okay. Impure regression is okay. It happens. And I’m tired of having to hide it, or be ashamed of it.
I’ve always regressed, before I ever had a word for it. And that’s okay.
I showed this to my boyfriend so he could understand age regression a little bit more. This was really helpful, thank you
i just found this video and i cannot believe how well put into words it is! the things i wanna say to my parents about my age regression becomes too much and i overthink waaa. but now i’m going to embrace my age regression and stop feeling ashamed about it, i’ve been doing it for years without even knowing until 2 years ago
thank you so much for this, I've been having a really rough time accepting myself and my regression. The sentence on the bottom of the screen at 3:09 nearly had me in tears because my mom called me really gross names because of my regression. I'm still having a rough time accepting it but this helped a lot. Thank you
I want to thank you for helping me understand what my friend may be going through. I've never known much about him as a youth and he doesn't open up much. However between the binky, stuffys, and a few other things I figured it was something like this. I finally may know how to support him as he's going through some stuff rn. I hope he's OK with me knowing about it but he hasn't hidden it much so I believe he trusted me. I'm going to tell him that I don't judge him, his coping habits are valid, and there's no reason at all to need to be sorry about any of it. I feel like a bad friend because I got scared and accused him of leaving me behind for new friends to replace me. Now I realize he needed to be around people like him so he could feel safe. I feel terrible and I hope he will forgive me.
Ive been through a lot of mental abuse over the years, and ive found that age regression is the safest form of coping for me… its good to be able to be small and feel taken care of by someone actually putting in the effort to not hurt you, because I didn’t grow up with that, my parents “trying” was always constant criticism, harmful words, belittling my resulting feelings, nitpicking at every little thing, and honestly a ton of verbal bullying that is even worse then what I’d get at school.
I’ve lived so long having to repress my emotions, it’s nice having people that won’t get angry at me for expressing them anymore…
this made me break down into complete tears all the quotes made me feel so seen - thank you for helping me remember its okay to be "too little" sometimes
i dont feel that alone anymore. thank you.
Omg seeing a fellow system here made me feel so welcome, thank you for including us n this safe space
The fact that I'm just seeing this now is gonna make me cry, I love the explanation and exploration.
I age regress and this short film helps me feel better I've regressed since I was like 9 I'm 14 now it's been hard for me to explain myself so I've stopped explaining it to people
i'm fairly new to my regression (at least knowing what it is/calling it that), and while i've found a sense of community online, i'm afraid to let myself embrace it. i don't know how to find caregivers or how to hide my regression from my parents, but i'm hoping one day ill be able to let myself comfortably regress :)
As a minor who grew up and matured too quickly, I never got to have that innocent childhood. As the line, "We were too little, but now its too late." I was too little to understand it all to the point I began to learn and accept it, and now it's too late to go back to being a kid. As an age reggressing minor, I age regress from 4-6 years old. So, about the ages before I started to lose the innocence I couldn't keep. My only thing is that, when I regress, it's like I'm a different person. It comforts me to act like a kid again, but I feel weird referring to that person as me. So when I regress, I'm a little girl name Bon, not Jovi (ik it's a reference t the band, but I wanted them to connect in some way). If people mistake that for DID, either me or Bon will have to explain it, and Bon doesn't really know how. So I avoid that situation at all costs. Anyways, thanks for listening to my Ted talk, but I just had to share that however you regress, it doesn't matter. You fit in in this community.
Edit: I have figured out that bon has manifested into an alter. I now regress to Lili, 4-5.
i love this video so much. i love all the actors that are pictured and how they look so happy, i love the gentle music ans rhe soothing voice. i personally have age regressed a few times and some of my headmates are younger, so I'm grateful that there are people that see and care enough to address that this exists. thank you so much for making this.
Thank you for making this video. I feel it was made with love and care. I hope it will help some people accept this beautiful part of theirs. You are awesome. Take care
As a DID system, thank you so much for including quotes from a system !! That made me feel so happy to see. This is a beautiful film, by the way.
As someone studying psychology, people regress in different forms constantly, especially today with video games, and movies. So now more then ever even those who word against it, they feel they want to be back in a specific time again is a form of regression, wanting a simpler way to think, as if you were a child again (older ppl). Etc, I have a lot of friends who are Regressors and honestly I hope that in doing so they can feel as if that trauma they have disappears, so they can feel more free in their day to day, but as anything else regression is a coping mechanism. even then I hope you all find some peace in all that has happened. 😊
Thankyou for making this it made me cry not gonna lie. I don't feel like my childhood was that bad but when everyone else talks about their childhood I feel like they had it better because of the way they were treated. I do tend to water down what I go though tho but being little has helped me just not while involuntarily.
i regress because I didn't get the importance of play as a child. I had toys but never played with them. I cant remember the real reason why, but it might have been because mom or dad never played with me and because my mom was over protective, i never had friends my age so the friends I did have were my dads friends kids who were older and thought it was too childish to have toys. video games were the cool thing. Now, im 22, I collect action figures and care bears and beanie babies. I dont play with them, but they give me comfort. I like having that small sense of childhood. The care bears helped me out of a very dark time in my life, even helped me feel comfort when I made the big decision of trying to overcome my fear of dentists. I don't regress as far back as others do, but I get its importance, its sense of security and safety.
Thank you for bringing meaning to something so misunderstood . I nearly cried as I watched this , but fear and self doubt have robbed me of emotions . My life is robotic ,at times I am almost machine like . But then there are those times when I can be human , if only for a short while .
Dreamer
i just want the childhood i barley even had to begin with
I am currently studying age regression and this video is perfect!
One may naturally experience this blissful age regression once you become a parent...and again as a grandparent..and if you're lucky - again as great-grandparent. This I know is true x
I have very severe trauma from my caregivers leaving me, and I've been battling this war in my head with my littlespace. I run and hide and curl up and cry instead of letting myself be happy. I sent this to my boyfriend of now almost a year ( I recently opened up about being little ) and he said that he cried while watching this because he imagined my joy in this video. He imagined me doing the things that the actors were doing here, and said that joy was the most beautiful thing he's ever seen.
Thank you for explaining age regression so well, as someone who has only had the vague idea of what it was, this was extremely helpful
something about this video is making me uncontrollably sob like i love my regression cus it gives me the childhood i never had but it also brings me so much grief bc i’ll never truly get to be a kid again. :(
This was beautifully explained
I actually started tearing up while watching this
I'm a little in the system
Sometimes the world is scary
I help my system feel what joy we missed out on from childhood, and even re-experience the small happy times
I love this short film and I'm glad they explained everything about age regression... bc I use age regression as a way to cope bc of my traumatic experience I had this year. It was very awful and thanks to age regression I found a safe space for me. I use stuffies rattles pacis blankies toys stuff to eat and little gear that helps me too. Watching movies and cartoons help me too. So seeing this really helps me out. Thank u
I think I’m gonna cry just watching this. I didn’t grow up in a horrible household, but I’m coming to realize how it affected me as I grow up. And as I go about my life as who I am now, I’ve come to realize some things about myself. I could spend hours in a coloring book, or popping bubbles, or just looking at the woods. I love playing with kids, because it reawakens that in me, being able to just let go. But I think I might be something different. I think maybe I’m meant to be a caretaker. Because, more than loving my orange juice with apple slices to dip in peanut butter, I love cutting the apple, putting it into a cute bowl I searched through a Once Upon A Child for, and setting it in front of the face of a smiling kid. Maybe that’s just parenthood, but I think part of me can connect with my inner child most when I’m playing with another kid. And it’s not right for me to process my issues through someone else, of course, but I can understand why people would age regress. When I was in school, I would see kids who helped out with the special needs kids, and I couldn’t help but glare at them. The kids who would go and offer fake help to them, smile at them and say they were best friends and then go and make fun of them behind their backs. I remember walking through the halls, hearing them call the same kids they were supposed to be best friends with slurs, pointing and laughing at their drawings like art isn’t an expression of emotion. I don’t ever want to be like that. If I ever get into that kind of occupation, or even just volunteer, I want to make sure I love and accept every part of every person I help. I want to try and pour out enough love to triple the amount of hate I heard reverberating off those walls. And if the way to do that is blowing bubbles, then that’s even better.