Someone said this a while ago:
[Start] programmed culture is everyone in my life, including all of my friends, coworkers, classmates and even my current boyfriend thinking I look older, vastly older than I am, to the point where they thought I was an adult when I was underage and were surprised to hear i wasnt, to the point where I was getting liquor menus without being carded at 14.. #re-aging trafficking [End]
Thank you for sharing, and that sounds kind of freaky. I'm sorry you have to deal with that
Programmed culture is thinking for a while that your abusers lied to you about your age but not being sure.
And thinking you must be younger than you are cause you didn't get your period till 15 (but to be fair that could be as a result of disordered eating), and you never really fit in with your grade but instead hung out with the grade younger than you in high school, and your sibling who is not even 2 years older than you also acting younger than their official age, and you reaching your full height at 18 or 19 instead of 15 like most girls, and having a younger sibling who seems a lot closer to you in age than the whopping 2.5 year gap you were told, and looking at pictures from when you were a child trying to do the math, and being smarter than you should be so maybe they gave you a higher age to hide the discrepancy?, and having a very conveniently placed birthday that happens to be the same day as that of the cult leader at the time, and having at least three other siblings with birthdays either conveniently planned, or at least revised, to fall on cult significant days.
And then after figuring this out just kind of not thinking about it a lot for a while, but then stumbling on this similar post on the internet, but when you search up this kind of re-aging it's still hard to find information and other personal accounts of it happening. If anybody knows of any that would be helpful.
