Ready for 'age dysphoria'?

[ArabellaScott]

https://www.reddit.com/r/nevergrewup/

'When the body got older but the mind remained a child. A place for people who grew up on the outside but still feel like a child mentally (age dysphoria.) To discuss, understand and help each other.'

Oh yes am 61 am up for that, do you think as a consequence of my dysphoria i can get NHS plastic surgery to correct my physicality so am no longer uncomfortable with myself when i look in the mirror.

oh wait don’t rich people do that already - privileged bastards

This is too hard for me to understand and anyways it's past my bedtime.
Maybe a grown up will come along and explain it.

Transage doesn't have a good reputation.

Some of them wrote with very biiigggg words fir 3 year olds 🙄

@LastTrainEast 😂could you be phobic. Am feeling upset, and literally murdered by you

Is it age disphoria, or more of a DID type experience?

What’s a DID please

Dissociative Identity Disorder
when trauma can cause aspects of self to ‘split off’ and can present almost as separate identities, with their own ages.

So....

I now know the jellyfish is the sign for someone who is into transage! Keep an eye out for those jellyfish badges!!

You lot are brilliant!

Age dysphoria already exists, it usually manifests as a midlife crisis.
Unfortunately, medical treatment is so expensive that only billionaires can afford a regenerative medicine physician.
https://fortune.com/well/2023/01/26/bryan-johnson-extreme-anti-aging/

Thanks for that

worked with childhood sexual abuse victims for many years, “ splitting off is psychobabble.

I'm not sure how to feel about this one given I have Smurfs lurking around the house, have a multitude of colouring books and pencils and am currently drinking chocolate milk designed for toddlers!

However I DO have DID!

Lucky the dominant voice is a pissed off woman in her 50s!

@Boiledbeetle yep

I'm absolutely certain that there are no nerarious end game reasons for people to identify as children at all. Nuh uh. Nope.

@Grimchmas Obviously would be nothing to do with minor interests, as my friend Michael offered testimony about, and how enriched we are about that.

I have never really grown up. But does anyone, ever? Isn't everyone the same, always feeling like a teenager inside?
I do still find myself at the back of my mind wondering what I will do or be when I grow up, when my adult life begins. I'm in my 60s, so I'd better get a move on!

More batshittery.
Just why a jellyfish? I thought that was the sign of a spineless employer witness at a GC tribunal?

Just accept you are a late bloomer!

There's still plenty of decades left in you where it may happen!

Good heavens. If there has to be a Brian Johnson, I’d prefer it to be this one. He seems much more, erm, normal…

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/transgender-father-stefonknee-wolscht-who-left-family-to-be-a-sixyearold-girl-uses-child-s-play-to-escape-adult-life-a6775051.html

She said that even in jail, where she spent nine days in solitary confinement (but does not explain what for), she played.

She made the cell a kingdom and sang songs there and would not be an adult, so she said they could not hurt her, saying, “If I’m six-years-old, I don’t have to think about adult stuff.”

Ms Wolscht still does adult things like drink coffee and drive a car, but does these things as a little kid.

As she was never allowed to be a little girl, she feels she is “filling that tank full of little girl experiences” and loves the fact that she has access to "really pretty clothes" and doesn’t have to act her age.

Mail version of the same interview

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3356084/amp/I-ve-gone-child-Husband-father-seven-52-leaves-wife-kids-live-transgender-SIX-YEAR-OLD-girl-named-Stefonknee.html

In an emotional video with gay news site a^ in collaboration with The Transgender Projectt^, Stefonknee (pronounced ‘Stef-on-knee’) Wolscht, 52, of Toronto, says she realized she was transgender - rather that simply a cross-dresser - at age 46, and split from her wife, Maria, after she told her husband to 'stop being trans or leave'.

Now, Stefonknee lives with friends who she cans her 'adoptive mommy and daddy' as a six-year-old girl, dressing in children's clothing and spending her time playing and coloring with her adoptive parents' grandchildren.

Stefonknee says her 'adoptive' family, which consists of an older couple and their children and young grandchildren, are completely accepting of her identifying as a little girl.

She says she's living as a six-year-old girl because it's something she could never do when was in grade school.

'I can’t deny I was married. I can’t deny I have children,' she says in the video. 'But I’ve moved forward now and I’ve gone back to being a child. I don’t want to be an adult right now.'
Stefonknee further adds: 'I have a mommy and a daddy - an adopted mommy and daddy - who are totally comfortable with me being a little girl. And their children and their grandchildren are totally supportive.'

@Ereshkigalangcleg
It just sounds desperately sad to me. I can’t imagine how that could be mentally healthy any more than if they’d decided they were Napoleon or the late Queen.

No, exactly. I don't think anyone should be telling children he's a little girl though.

I agree. His LARPing as a six yr old girl is an adult activity, and should be explained as play pretend to any children. He shouldn’t be living with children either. I don’t know how social services is allowing it.

It’s the age regression that I object to. I would care if he were a transwoman or nonbinary. But adult LARPing as a six year old when they do not have multiple personality disorder, that’s Munchausen attention seeking, isn’t it? And what happens if he starts on playing at sibling rivalry with the real children? They could get hurt.