What does age regression mean to you?
It’s not a phrase I use simply
because my Middles with a little side flows from my inner child in real
time less than the notion of say taking on a pre-defined role with an
script, running more with actual child within emotional responses and
needs as it happens in real time. It’s more space for my Middle with
little side to express herself with the ‘play’ being the setting where
she comes out.
It also is the case with developmental disabilities
and brain damage, even at school, not least high school, I was
considerably younger than my years which left me out of sync from my mid
teens onward with most of my peers although I could share in say a love
of music and some movies at least but with a lot their more grown up
interests and sexual references going completely over my head, like
they’d be talking about making out and I’d be more interested in having a
teddy bears picnic or a tween sleepover.
For me those situations
either on line or in playmeets with some of my friends over here are
very therapeutic to me because they’re where I can really let that side
of me out without the fear of people poking fun although the community
where I live are very tolerant of my child-like ways and being know to
have “special needs” does run to my advantage in that way, allowing a
greater degree of self expression than I’d of imagined after leaving
high school.
How do you express you inner-kid: online? offline as part of your everyday life?
Online
is fun as I am very childlike, cracking lame jokes, getting super
excited but thankfully most people are at least tolerant of my childlike
ways although I make serious posts on non IK sites but am very open at
sites like DDLG World or Girltalk.to.forums about my little side
sometimes really regressing in say a IK chat room
In what we call
Real Life, as will be apparent later on, my 'big’ and I express
ourselves pretty much the same, which can be fun cos I just can’t help
being myself as I use child-like phrases and words instinctively, often
have plaything with me (my last works colleagues 'got it’ and were super
understanding of me being very much a child to the point of buying
childrens gifts at Christmas), do dress in a more child-like way, often
have cute plushies around, and easily move into little/middle headspace
when I’m out, playing with thing.
My IK really comes out at Adult
Little Girl meets and sleepovers, it’s just like boarding school which I
loved having been to one and I’m always dressed as Middle in either
playwear or English school uniform which fits me perfectly.
How do
you view your innerkid? As an integrated part of you? As being totally
separate? .. or maybe you don’t feel you have an innerkid per say just
feel littler.
The answer to this is simple which is to say I don’t
have much of adult sense of self through the real world impact of
learning, development and intellectual disabilities to the point much of
the adult world is beyond my personal comprehension, having no interest
or need to. Basically I’m a child with a big age number living more
like a child apart from paying taxes and that.
What about discipline? Does it feature in your ageplay needs and to what extent?
I
struggle with things around getting things done on time, do put off
important things for more fun in the moment activities, badly need
structure and am capable of being disrespectful of others because I get
more into what I want then and there without considering them. As well, I
don’t always judge situations well and my abilities especially in
emotionally stressful situations to keep up with and process verbal
reasoning can get so poor that it just ends up jumbled up with me
getting more and more frustrated with that person. Grown up approaches
to disciplining me simply aren’t effective because they just can’t go
in.
What works better with me is having clear cut rules and rigid
boundaries around what I’m expected to do and clear consequences which
is what my mentor/caretaker has been working on with me since just
before Christmas. The main focus is around working on bring more
permanent changes in my behaviour and attitudes rather than just the use
of discipline through talking about situations and one on one guidance.
Discipline
forms an important part within the maintenance of those rules though,
flowing very much as the consequence delivered for breaching them in the
way as a child it would and so my mentor/caretaker does use corporal
punishment with me as so an increasing number of trusted 'grown ups’
when I’m in IK situations involving them with permission and appropriate
discreteness, often when I’m dressed more as a child too.
I find being disciplined less stressful than wordy verbal scolding,
feeling very calm over a knee while it also certainly has helped
together with the guidance and love of others in improving my attitudes
and behaviour no end. My parents have little idea what this is about but
they’re really impressed by how much I’ve improved.
The aftercare is
really good and I find afterward its like I’ve been 'reset’, centred
anew with no past offences hanging over me although it does hurt.