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.'

I'm sure I saw a case of a 50-year-old man identify as an 18-year-old girl who was swimming (and changing) with that age category, over in Canada. Fuck knows why the parents or the swimming club allowed it.

Transage is an absolute gift for pedophiles.

Yes
and, personally, I guess a key difference with DID presentation is

• that ‘part’ did actually exist,
• the treatment plan is usually to strengthen the functional adult part whilst also allowing any other ‘parts’ to be heard. Ultimately the adult part will liaise with any other parts in a safe and contained way, but the adult can override eg in public.

so allowing and encouraging an older male to be a six year old girl goes against all of the treatment plans and, as someone said, he hasn’t ever been a girl!! @Karensalright i really hope you were joking when you said splitting off is psychobabble, if you work with abuse survivors. i manage a team in a sexual violence therapy service. It’s not common to see DID but we always have at least one case. if anyone is interested, Carolyn Spring is a DID survivor and has a great website. re the actual age trans thing though - no. Enough already.

What?! No it doesn't, at all!

One is a healthy approach to healing trauma with a licensed professional with an aim to becoming a healthier functioning adult.

The other is at best trauma actively manifesting as severe disassociation and regression, and at worst adults getting a kinky thrilled or worse out of pretending to be children or opting out of their responsibilities.

And the worst examples are always the men because of course they are.

"I'm not a fucking creepy mediocre man who has just walked away from my wife and children and responsibility to provide for even myself let alone parent the children I made and be a functional member of society; I'm a special little 6 year old girl. I just want to play with my toys all day while I get to keep the bits of being an adult that I enjoy, like drinking coffee, driving my car and fucking my pretend adoptive parents.

Fuck. That. Shit.

This is an adult man, who enjoys the persona of a very young little girl, who then has anal sex with 'daddy'.

The place for this is private role play in the bedroom. Outside of that it is inappropriate in the extreme, and about exhibitionism and involving non consenting others in the fetish, while seeing what good natured, well intended people can be manipulated into believing and indulging. It is about breaking other people's boundaries. And the next obvious step to 'out and proud' is 'coming to nursery with your toddler'. It's not like the path has not been laid by men identifying as women and then expecting their LARP to have no boundaries.

Having read the first few posts out seems very sad.
Mostly early 20 y/o who are scared of life and scared to get out into the big wife world.

They may feel vulnerable and scared, I get it, but they're clutching at the wrong straws in wanting to cling to a childlike state.

Thanks for the heads up