I wanna ask cus I'm a permaregressor I think (as in I feel like I'm four-ish and just going thru life in a grown up body)
What does regressing fully feel like? Sometimes I feel tinier and more childish, but I don't seem to lose my memories like other posts seem to imply happens when people regress
Like is it normal to just... remember being "big" while regressed? Or is it something else entirely
Tho granted me being "big" is smol too
thank u for messaging me!! OwO Dis is a rlly good question, & while im not an expert, ill answer as honest as i can :3c
i only rlly discovered i was a permaregressor dis year. I alwaiz felt rlly RLLY behind ppl inside, & kept hoping if i "faked it till i maked it," id eventually grow up. U_u
im autistic, have severe childhood trauma, am acespec, & mentally ill in some ways ;_; i kno autistic & trauma survivors experience regression & identity different sometimes, but literally ANYBUDDY can regress, even without anything like dat xD
For yearz now, id been lookin in n out of agere n petre-type communities, & saw the nsft ones 1st. I wuz liek "oh, i like dis, but i don't liek any of dat naughty stuffz..." So i didn't feel liek i belonged there u_u [nothing against ppl who do nsft stuff at all btw, dis iz just my personal x-perience >w>;]
Learning bout agere dis year, accepting my childish side instead of hiding it, haz made me feel SO free!! But it also made me realize.... I regress liek, all the time o.0
I think since i regress older den u do [liek, 9-13] it might feel a lil different cuz older kidz might handle stuff different, but it also might not!! :3
I feel liek my "big self" iz a LARP i kinda dissociate wif when i rlly need to be big, like im a kid piloting a grownups body. But i don't alwayz 4get what i do in dat sense, so much as just feel super super separate from it.
So, tl;dr [xD]: i personally think itz possible to regress & remember stuff u do as a "big" person sometimes!!
Again liek, im no expert, & many ppl rlly do forget that side when regressed. But i think maybe permaregressors are a lil different that way anywaiz ^w^ u could also look into "age dreaming/agedre" if dat helpz, itz like agere, but without a full mental shift in regression! [Im not an expert there either, but they're also super awesome ppl & it can be rlly therapeutic :D]
Sowwy 4 da long answer, but i hope dis helpz u guize!! X3 feel free 2 talk bout ur own experiences on dis post too, frens 0w0
Lotsa love, from me 2 u kiddo!! <333
