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[tiredofagerecommunity]

Why you shouldn’t support underage self proclaimed “age regression” on social media.

Minors are no where near adult communities that are strictly centered around bdsm.

Groomers and pedophiles lurking within the cgl and abdl community aren’t able to cause any danger to them and their content won’t overlap with anyone’s kinks or fetishes within the 18+ community. (Minors won’t be sexualized)

A child using age regression as a form of therapy without a licensed professional isn’t in therapy. Age regression under hypnosis isn’t a treatment used anymore. As it’s very dangerous and in this time and age we’ve found better ways to help. Any minor posting pictures of themselves with a pacifier in their mouth and a stuffed animal claiming it’s only for coping purposes is abusing their coping mechanism.

Most minors don’t have a solid sense of who they are yet. Although this could be a phase whether or not you’re a minor or an adult minors are still in school and figuring out what they’re going to do with their life career wise. Minors posting age regression content can interfere with their future life choices regarding this. US copyright laws says “breif excerpts of copyright material may, under circumstances, be quoted verbatim for purposes such as criticism, news reporting, teaching, or research without the need for permission from the copyright holder” This means any content you post on social media people can use without a way for you to get it taken down. As a minor this is really important especially when not everyone sees the difference between age regression vs kink. You never know where your content will be.

Minors are still underneath the authority of their parents. They are not able to consent to this content. The law says that it is illegal to display obscenity in a matter that makes it available to those under 18. Age regression today on social media looks no different from CGL or ABDL on social media. Therefore if you are 18 years old or older and you follow kink accounts, buy from 18+ kink shops, or use kink related hashtags and you allow minors to follow you then you are exposing them to obscene material and you can go to jail for a federal offense. You are not responsible for minors. Directing them on how to be safe around an 18+ community just because they claim to be non kink is wrong.

[tiredofagerecommunity]

Age regression can only be done intentionally if said person is triggering themselves to regress. Otherwise what they’re doing isn’t age regression it’s just roleplay. Roleplay can be therapeutic but it is not therapy.

It can be good for occasional escape but relying on it constantly while never addressing the root of the issue is just as bad as any other avoidance mechanism. It’s just a quick dopamine and adrenaline hit but it will never heal your wounds until you address them by name. Until they do so their problems can even fester and grow.

If a child comes to you and claims they age regress as a coping mechanism it’s something to be concerned about. They may be showing unnatural behaviors. They need to seek professional help instead having a dedicated social media account of it as a cute and showy display especially if they’re truly in a traumatic state. They’re abusing their coping mechanism and defeating the purpose of it if they don’t.

Coping mechanism’s shouldn’t become someone’s entire focus or lifestyle. Otherwise it’s more than just a coping mechanism to them and they’re using that as an excuse.

An example of this is someone who doodles as a coping mechanism. If they’re entire focus was on drawing to the point they had a dedicated social media account about it you’d probably consider them a artist. You aren’t coping 24/7. If you do something in your spare time out of pure enjoyment it’s more than a coping mechanism.

I am not a doctor nor an expert. I know that many therapists support minors (and adults) taking action on doing heathy and positive forms of self care that get them out of bad mental states they’re going through after addressing the root of their problems by name. They want to help people achieve the highest quality of life available to them given their condition but I also know a person that has the expertise wouldn’t disagree with me on this.

Sharing such a vulnerable state like age regression on social media can be very damaging as would sharing any other disorders and conditions. This doesn’t mean that people don’t do this for support and validation, to realize they’re not alone, to make people stronger, to inform others about it so they can have an understanding of it, and to be more comfortable and open with themselves etc. as expressing that can be a very important step to growth and feeling valid and THAT ITSELF is something that’s recommended. No one wants to feel like they have to bottle up their emotions and aspects of their lives all the time. With that said regression won’t be linked with ageplay and all of my previous points still apply.

[tiredofagerecommunity]

Age regression as a defense mechanism is usually done without the person realizing they’re doing it. This doesn’t mean that while regressing that said person can’t realize it later.

Regressive behaviors can also be done without a person experiencing an intense psychological mental shift due to change of mood. When this happens the person displaying regressive behaviors is still consciously aware of their biological age and way of thinking, etc. they’re just resorting to their regressive strategies as a defense mechanism.

Some examples of forms of every day regression we all do under stress or when facing problems are:

Taking a test and feeling nervous or stuck on it to the point you regress to infant behavior by sucking and chewing your pen down to the cartridge.

When you feel a strong emotion such as being neglected or you’re talking to someone close to you and you don’t like what they said or what they’re telling you to do so you throw a tantrum about it and threaten to take something away. That’s regressing.

If you’re a college student and you miss home or you’re sick and you miss your mom or you wish someone could take care of you and the first thing you reach for is your teddy bear and you start cuddling it to take away some of the ease. That’s regressing.

Have you ever vistited a friend you haven’t seen since your childhood so you come to the conclusion to slip instantly back into your old routines with them; playing house or playing with barbies with them like you used to. That act of remembering and reliving that past event with emotional content is regressing.

Feeling nostalgia very heavily from seeing something that used to be a big part of your childhood to the point you feel like you need to do or watch whatever it was in your childhood and then you start instantly feeling like the child you were then and realizing it later is regressing.

These are all everyday relatable forms of age regression. Those examples of age regression I used are very natural, healthy, and safe. Age regression can be a danger to some though and it also can be very unhealthy and uncomfortable.

Everyone regresses though. Some people automatically resort to their use of childish strategies more than others and that’s not always something to look at concerningly.

Regardless of the fact that we all regress and we all can come to terms with liking and accepting that we regress it still is not okay to toss that term around as a hobby. Regression is a psychological term. People who heavily experience regressive behavior have medical or psychiatric problems. No one focuses on this unconscious behavior heavily unless we are coping with it or seeking help for it. What people do heavily focus on is their hobbies. In the “agere” community that would be roleplay or being an adult baby.

*You can not be an age regressor in the same sense you can be a roleplayer or an AB. Age regressing isn’t a real thing unless it is a medical condition, a disorder, or you’re not neurotypical functioning. At the end of the day we all are age regressors in a natural and flexible manner because regressive behaviors lay on a spectrum just as much as dissociation does, but we all don’t severely experience a psychological shift that affects our brain; our entire way of being. We also all don’t consciously voluntarily act like children, engage in children activities, and use items for infants. That isn’t age regression.

If you want to tell people and tag agere on your post because you regressed naturally due to unsettling emotions, that’s your business.. I don’t get why you’d do that but I could care less since you’re actually using the term respectfully in the correct way.

[askavcc]

Do you have a problem with people that are accepting of underage littles?

I do indeed have a problem with people that support children in the kink community. 

Supporting minors in kink is grooming and corruption of a minor. As someone who was abused as a minor, groomed and corrupted as a minor, of course I have a problem with it. (Even if those things hadn’t happened to me, I still wouldn’t support children in the kink community)

Supporting minors in the community means you support all the problems that come with children in the kink community. 

You do not care about their safety, nor do you care that allowing children in the community makes us a prime target for predators.

You do not care that it could ruin the lives of a lot of people in more ways than one. Both adults and children.

You do not care that if this continues the kink community will go back underground because of the association it has with children. Basically ruining this community and the level of acceptance that people have worked so hard on over the years.

You do not care about the adults in the community that will be linked to pedophilia because the community would be known to have children and pedophiles in it. Regardless if they don’t support children in the community. 

You don’t care that to the vanilla world we will ALL be seen as pedophiles because of this. Coming out as kinky could get you killed. You can’t say people aren’t that stupid to assume everyone involved is a pedo. Shall I tell you why? Can I just remind you that there are a lot of people out there who think ALL Muslims are bad, or ALL people of colour are bad, or ALL trans folk are bad. Hate crimes do happen. Do not make us a target because some kids can’t wait a couple of years and you think its harmless. It is not harmless. 

You do not care about all the mental health issues people will have to deal with because they have to hide who they are and what they like and live in fear because it has that association? 

If you support children in the community, you’re saying you don’t care about any of these issues, in fact you support them. You want that all to happen. You are all for the pain and misery and negative effects that involving children in the kink community has. 

So yes. I have a problem with people supporting children in the kink community. 

Rethink your argument because I assure you, there are way more negatives than positives with this issue. 

If you still support children in the kink community after reading all that, unfollow us, don’t talk to us. We want absolutely NOTHING to do with you. 

The kink community is 18+ fucking keep it that way. 

Emily xxx

[nmik-agere]

PSA

Whether or not you are a minor or an adult and you claim what you do is non-kink and nonsexual that doesn’t mean what you’re doing is SFW. SFW stand for safe for work. Things that are safe for work are content and speech that would be safe for the public that would not be offensive to employers or co-workers.

Calling your partner a parental name like mommy or daddy is NOT safe for work.

Using or displaying items such as diapers, pacifiers, and toys etc. is not safe for work, a place where you have to act professional.

Nonsexual and non-kink does not automatically equal SFW, and just because what you’re doing isn’t SFW doesn’t mean you’re now partipating kink.

Please stop calling your self proclaimed “age regression” or your AB hobbies SFW.

They are not safe for the WORKplace

[nmik-agere]

The dangers of age regressing (TW)

Everyone loves to talk about how age regression is a healthy and positive coping mechanism for them because it helps them forget about the adult anxieties and responsibilities in life for a while. Age regression is seen in good light so abundantly that many people on social media often ask others how they can regress, but no one talks about how age regressing can enforce them to carry adult anxieties or how regressing can become harmful to many.

How is that so? Age regression is a defense mechanism that makes you experience a deep psychological shift. Defense mechanisms are forced unconscious processes that is your brains way of helping you cope and escape from present anxieties, depression, feelings of fear, disgust, or guilt etc. but when age regression has the interpolation of a past, time-frozen experience over the present reality it can make the regressed individual re-experience their past trauma by having sudden and unwanted traumatic flashbacks that intrude into or replace what’s happening presently. When this happens the regressed individual can feel unwanted emotions such as fear, disgust, or guilt etc. that their brain is supposed to be safeguarding. This can be very damaging because when a person is regressed they are in a deep psychological shift where their knowledge, motor skills, and behaviors etc. is in the same manner of a biological child. The regressed individual can start to feel trapped feeling sadness, anger, loneliness, etc. and other varieties of mood swings.

Why does this happen sometimes? This happens sometimes because In effect, our present reality is nothing more than a composite of all our past experiences. As imperfect people we do not have the time to access all new situations or objects from the ground up. Instead, our mind sees things that fit into our per-existing “blueprints” and memories and we instantly judge those things within that frame of reference. By the time we are mature enough to take actions to properly take care of ourselves, we have a complex structure of belief systems, and way of thinking, seeing things, and feeling things in which our unconsciousness uses to make quick sense of the information we take in through those senses.

Example: Imagine someone who is overly sensitive to their spouse raising their voice at them. Whenever they raise their voice the people who is overly sensitive freezes and finds themselves becoming tearful and completely unable to communicate effectively, possibly becoming nonverbal. Perhaps when this person first started dating their spouse their relationship with this person was really healthy, but over time (and after a few negative experiences of their spouses yelling) they begun to resort to their regressive behaviors at the mere sight of them approaching. The reaction is out of their control. They are in a deep mental shift compared to their normal behavior and way of thinking as an adult. Only after their spouse has left the room, does the regressed individual come back to their senses. In this case living with regression can be very uncomfortable and even dangerous if said spouse was abusive.

In the above example, it is likely that as a child, the regressed individual was yelled at by a family member repeatedly which may have caused them psychological and/or physical pain, especially if said individual was enduring abuse from that family member in one or more ways.

Another example: Imagine someone starts to regress due to experiencing feelings and thoughts that were too difficult for them to cope with consciously. They are regressing because their mind responded to something threatening that could cause emotional or physical harm. As they are regressing their reasoning for doing so is vanishing. Their regression is positive and healthy in this moment. They are in the mindset of a child and they start to engage in childlike activities. While they are still regressed they come across something that was in their childhood, instead of a positive response towards it they respond negatively. Perhaps it triggered them out of regression due to its memory, or perhaps they are still regressed and they do not know what’s caused them to feel negatively towards that object but it’s making them feel sadness, even suicidal. The world may feel bigger to them and they may feel isolated. They can start to feed into compulsive behavior, hostility, or risk taking, even self-destructive behaviors because of this. The regressed individual can even start to resort to negative regressive behaviors such as screaming and kicking and feed into those risk taking and destructive behaviors towards those that may be trying to help them.

In the above example, it is likely that as a child, the regressed individual suffered through trauma/abuse and their memory and reaction towards it was too impactful because it caused them emotional and physical harm.

In therapy regression can be dangerous because age regression in therapy is a technique in a psycho-therapeutic process that facilitates access to memories, thoughts and feelings. Age regression includes hypnotherapy, which is a process where patients move their present focus to memories of an earlier stage of their life in order to explore these memories and to get in touch with some difficult-to-access aspects of their personality and go back and find the initial sensitizing event to recover, re-frame, resolve, and cope with their trauma or present fear. The individual that gets hypnotized or is regressed is in an extremely weak and vulnerable state in order for this to happen. Some of the dangers of age regression therapy in hypnosis includes the hypnosis causing you to feel and behave in ways that don’t make sense in your current situation. These leftover feelings and behaviors might cause you to have fears and phobias without knowing why, feel guilty for no easily understood reason, have false memories, have difficulty in being intimate, and suffer from mental disorders.

I have never seen, experienced, or done age regression therapy through hypnosis and finding information on it is tremendously difficult. Therapist/Psychologist view it as a very controversial topic and today age regression therapy is not a common practice form of therapy practiced anymore due to the disagreements, dangers, and uncertainty of it, and because licensed professionals have found more effective ways to help people cope with trauma etc.

If you actually mentally regress and you have experienced the negative affects of regression and you would like to share your experiences or information you know please do so by rebloging your input or commenting it on this post!

It is really important to shed light on what age regression actually is and what happens during it since it has been a horrible epidemic of people misconstruing it so many times for these past few years. People who experience and suffer from age regression don’t deserve that. They deserve to have the correct meaning of their term used. They deserve an easy process to get help. They deserve to have a place where they can talk openly about their regression and their trauma, mental illnesses, or disorders without any kink related or aesthetic and hobby related mentions having to be cleared up.

[nmik-agere]

ok i want your hot take on this. what do you think about pet regression?

Pet regression does not exist unless it is a non human alter in DID. Here’s an article about such: http://did-research.org/did/alters/non-human.html

It is impossible to revert back to the state of an animal if you have never been one. Some people who try to defend pet regression by saying that reverting back to a former state doesn’t matter, they believe that as long as they are reverting back to a less developed state that it is pet regression. This is simply not true because animals are developed species unless they are young. If a person claims they are pet regressing because they are going back in age this is still age regression which in turn can be a form of another thing, a non human alter in DID. The brain of systems who have nonhuman alters became what it needed to in order to survive. They are considered nonhuman for a reason. Even if they are not nonverbal they aren’t obligated to identify as human when fronting, even though they technically are since all alters are in a human body and share a human brain. For this reason only is the term pet regression vaild and acceptable. I think the people that use the term pet regression today may be therians or they are getting the surge of their endorphins, adrenaline, and enkephalins confused with regressing, especially since people can create psychologically shifts themselves depending on what activities they’re doing and what they are surrounding themselves with. Usually in kink this is exactly what petspace is (referring to subspace, not the general headspace of an animal.) Pet regression to me is a gateway to kink, as pet play can be non-sexual, but if people who use this term aren’t interested in d/s relationships (having an owner) then they are just people that have connected to an animal through human traits and behaviors who like animal accessories and get in a pet headspace by dressing up and role playing. Pet regression on social media is nonsense lol. Always be kind though.

If you know anyone that claims they are pet regressor or if you are a person that claims so yourself and you’re not into having a power exchange with an owner of any sort and you’re wondering what you should identify yourself as you honestly don’t need a label, if people are curious they will ask and you can explain to them that your account is non-kink and you collect faux fur ears/tails for a pretend play hobby that you just do for fun and as a coping mechanism! As simple as that. Put it in you’re bio, links, of insta stories if you don’t want the hassle of answering so many messages. If you feel like you must have a label you should just call yourself a (pet/*insert animal(s) here* kemonomimi) role player, there really isn’t any reason to create made up tumblr based terms to complicate things.

[nmik-agere]

♡ Littlespace ♡

Sadly, I accidentally deleted an ask regarding littlespace while trying to edit it and add on to it so I decided I needed to make a post regarding it!

What is littlespace?

Littlespace is a term that derived from the 18+ ageplay kink community. It is a term that submissives in the ageplay/cgl community use to describe the voluntary psychological shift they create themselves to motivate themselves to metaphorically feel younger and happy. Littlespace is a term to describe a certain mood; or headspace a person has while consciously being aware of their chronological age and withholding to their cognitive abilities while still being aware of age appropriate behavior that they themselves can control. It is a hobby and a coping mechanism people use to cope and distress and enjoy embracing the innocence of childhood and releasing and expressing their alter ego or the child within. It is also a type of subspace; a distinct, noticeable shift in a persons mental and physical state provoked by BDSM activities, specifically BDSM activities that fall under the subcategory of ageplay, such as ageplay itself or cgl and it’s variants and ab/dl.

Didn’t the term littlespace derive from the DID community?

The term Littlespace did not derive from mental health facilities towards those who have dissociative identity disorders. The term you are getting confused with is the term Little. In dissociative disorders a system; a person with DID or OSDD may have a child alter that they refer to as a Little because that person in their system is a child. Trauma at a young age is the cause of developing a dissociative disorder and experiencing age sliding or having a child alter, which is a form of age regression. The term littlespace has never been used in context to refer to age sliding or a child alter fronting. Littlespace is not a clinical DID or OSDD term, It has never been used by clinicians; psychologist or therapist.

Is littlespace an alternative term for regression?

No! Despite the improper use of the term littlespace on social media, littlespace is not a term to describe the regressive mindset that is due to trauma, psychiatric disorders, neurological/developmental disorders, and intellectual and cognitive disorders. Regression is a defensive coping mechanism. A defense mechanism is an automatic response or reaction of the body that is an unconscious mental process used to avoid conscious anxiety or conflict. Age regression being a defense mechanism means it can not be a deliberate activity, unlike littlespace. Littlespace is about distressing, coping, and recreation, It has nothing to do with safeguarding your mind unconsciously as an instinct learned through trauma against feelings and thoughts that are too difficult for you to cope with consciously in order to escape and protect yourself. It has nothing to do with the loss of intellectual or cognitive abilities or experiencing a dissociative intrusion or an emotional flashback due to being triggered. When a person is in littlespace they are not retreating to an earlier mental or behavioral level that is the reversion to a chronologically earlier or less adapted pattern of behavior and feeling that they have to periodically live with. Littlespace is not a defensive mechanism because it is voluntary. When people put themselves in this certain headspace as a coping mechanism or as a hobby, physically, emotionally, and mentally they do not believe they are chronologically and biologically a child.

The term littlespace has also never been used in the medical field or the medical community by psychologist, therapist, or patients. If it was an alternative term for regression or a term that was cohesive with regression it would be known by those who work with people who regress in the medical field and by the community of those who regress since regression is a psychological term. There would be a history of the term littlespace associated with trauma, psychiatric disorders, and intellectual and cognitive disorders, and it would be a term used sometimes when referring to having a dissociative intrusion or an emotional flashback. The term littlespace hasn’t been associated with regression until 2016 due to online tumblr community discourse. The CGLRE community in particular. People who use the term littlespace to identify regression are using a term that derived from a subcategory of BDSM in replace of a psychological term made to describe their experiences and they are misinterpreting the original definition of littlespace; mixing a defensive mechanism with a voluntary hobby and coping mechanism. In other words they are mixing a conscious process with an unconscious one. This is not okay. Using the term Littlespace to explain regression can also make people misconstrue the definition of regression. This should not be supported.

Is the term littlespace SFW?

No! SFW stands for safe for work. Littlespace is not safe for the work place! Since the term littlespace oriented from the bdsm kink community it makes the term littlespace inherently NOT safe for work. It is clear for people to understand that CGL (DDLG) is not safe for work because it is a subcategory of BDSM; it is inherently a Kink whether or not it’s non-sexual or not. You can not take a term that derived from a subcategory of BDSM and make it completely safe for the public. Something that is safe for work is content, actions, and speech that would hold no issues if your superviser were to find out about it. It would also be content, actions, and speech that would be okay to be shared with your boss and your coworkers. If individuals at work were to see you using an adult pacifier at work or looking at text post or photos regarding people who are not physically babies or toddlers using baby items it would be deemed as inappropriate regardless if it’s not sexual and there is no topic of BDSM mentioned. The content, actions, and speech that comes up on your search results from looking up the word littlespace could be considered obscene material because the supreme court and the states have a direct interest in public morality. Material is also considered obscene if the material appeals to prurient interest or depicts offensive sexual nature. It is clear to see that Littlespace is stigmatized to adult themes, it can be traced back to its roots, the kink community. Your boss could identify your behavior as engaging in inappropriate activity at the workplace. The first definition of littlespace that you see by looking up the term in google is “the mindset or headspace in which an adult baby or little feels most carefree, accepted, and mentally youthful. Some adult babies or littles are only in littlespace during certain times while others may always be in littlespace as part of their natural personality.” It is not okay to behave like a child at work. The bold words are also terms that can be found within the BDSM community. SFW does not mean nonsexual and non-kink, and just because your hobby or lifestyle is nonsexual and is not apart of bdsm because what you’re doing isn’t a playful usage of sexual concepts that are overt, accentuated, and unambiguously expressive of sexuality, sensuality, and intimacy doesn’t mean it will always be seen as something cute, innocent, and harmless towards an outsider. A lot of people do not find “littlespace” as something tasteful or healthy. Some alternative lifestyles are too taboo to be considered appropriate regardless if it’s non-sexual. At the workplace you want to make sure on your break you are viewing and partipating in normal mundane activity that doesn’t hold any risk towards you getting in trouble or being fired from your job. You want your behavior to be considered as something society would see as normative and morally okay to do and view at work that wouldn’t require an inappropriate explanation. Unless you work at a very liberal work environment, little space is not SFW!

Disclaimer: I am not saying that it isn’t okay for people who have natural childlike personalities and characteristics to work. Nor am I saying that anyone who has childish interests or an alternative lifestyle where they like a collective of cute and playful items or they employ tendencies much younger than they chronologically are can not discreetly express or look at different interests, traits, or habits that make him/her/them unique and shows a part of who they are. For example wearing a Disney necklace or watch at work, having a childlike picture frame on your desk, having a plush keychain on your bag or briefcase, or looking up shopping photos of teddy bears or a set of colored pencils, there is nothing wrong with doing so. Littlespace isn’t about being naturally childlike though, it’s more so refers to getting yourself consciously in a chronologically younger headspace, where in that headspace role play is heavily involved and so is heavily presenting behavior people wouldn’t prescribe as age appropriate. Littlespace is a hobby and a coping mechanism, not an identity of self expression. Littlespace can be considered a act of releasing and expressing your alter ego or the child within you that you don’t normally publicly expose. It is not safe for work.

Should you support people not in kink using the term littlespace?

Supporting people who aren’t in kink using the term little space is very ambivalent. Logically people who aren’t involved in kink should not use the term littlespace because it is a term that was created in the bdsm kink community and it was inherently for people who are within the subcategories of bdsm, specifically ageplay and it’s subcategory cgl and it’s variants, and ab/dl. Using the term littlespace when you are not in kink can be considered appropriating from the BDSM ageplay/cgl/abdl kink community. Not believing the term littlespace is a kink term in itself doesn’t mean it isn’t considered one by a majority of people, especially those who are apart of the communities that created the term. Since the term littlespace is associated to an adult community and adult activities it is not safe or appropriate for minors to use this term. It is also not okay for adults who allow minors in their space to use this term. Using the term little space when you are not a submissive in bdsm allows people, including abusers and predators to misinterpret your interest and what you do. Minors should not be associated to an adult community centered around prurient interest and actions they can not consent to. (sex, fetishes, bondage, discipline, sadochism, masochism, dominance, and submission.) Using the term little space as a minor or a person not in kink is sharing a term with an adult community and it makes you associated to kink even when you aren’t a participant of it. No one wants to be responsible for jeopardizing safety if a danger were to occur from promoting this behavior. More than anything safety should be more important than the popularity of a term or liking how a term sounds. It doesn’t make sense to use the term little space in an environment surrounded by kinksters who also use that term. Separating non-kink communities and labels from kink communities and labels is important for safety and educational purposes. When people use the term littlespace when they are not a submissive in kink they are misconstruing the definition of the term. It is also not ethical to tell an entire community that has established something years ago that certain terminology isn’t theirs anymore just because you want what they have. You can not reclaim terminology that wasn’t yours or your community’s to begin with.

On the other hand, the word little is an adjective. According to context the definition of the word little is something small in size; not big; not large; tiny. It is small in number, or small in amount or degree; small in condition, distinction, or scope. It means young. Lastly it can be referred to something or someone that is pleasingly small. The word space is a noun. According to context the definition of space is a continuous area or expanse which is free, available, or unoccupied; it is a place that is available for a particular purpose. It is also the freedom or opportunity to express oneself, resolve a personal difficulty, be alone, etc. by distancing yourself from other people or things in order to remain comfortable. There should be no problem supporting nonsexual roleplayers and people who have childlike personalities that naturally employ childlike tendencies, characteristics, and interest using the term littlespace as long as they are using this term in appropriate places where the meaning of this term will not be misconstrued. Language is fluid and it is everchaging depending on what’s said and what’s understood. A word or acronym being used a certain way does not mean it’s connected to another group that uses that term the same way, regardless if it’s similar. A lot of words share similar or identical spelling but mean completely different things! The definition of the word littlespace has changed drastically over time. It has adapted to the wants of others in a different environment. This is called semantic change. Semantic change is a form of language change regarding the evolution of word usage. The term littlespace has also gone through what is called polysemy. Polysemy is the coexistence of many possible meanings for a word, phrase, or concept. Polysemous words share the same or related origins or roots according to history.

The following sentences contain some examples of polysemy:

He drank a glass of milk.

He forgot to milk the cow.

The enraged actor sued the newspaper.

He read the newspaper.

She ran to get the groceries.

I finally get the joke you told the other day.

He fixed his hair.

They fixed a date for the wedding.

People should be able to call their environments and creations whatever they want to call their environments and creatons. It is inappropriate to label something a child made or is doing as a kink if a child were to tell you they named their environment or creation as something and they explained to you in an appropriate way why they chose that name. As an adult you should keep that to yourself. It is wrong to project your kink on to minors and unconsenting individuals. Interpretatng words involves much more than etymology and definitions. It’s also about context and conventions and how the word is used and what it is intended to convey. Littlespace is a well established term that is understood and is respected as not associated to kink. Despite its origin and many submissives in kink still using the term littlespace how it was originally intended: as a form of subspace or a term to express indulging in the fetish and sexual activity of ageplay, the term littlespace is only refered to describe the voluntary psychological shift a person creates themselves to motivate themselves to metaphorically feel younger. Littlespace is a word to describe a headspace people have as a hobby and a coping mechanism used to cope and distress and embrace the innocence of childhood. It is not a term owned or used only by participants of the kink community anymore. Online today it is used more by those not within the subcategories of BDSM, and a vast majority within these subcategories see littlespace as something non-sexual. As long as people understand the origin of the term littlespace for safety reasons and kink spaces are separated from non-kink spaces anyone should be able to use the term littlespace. No one can claim the name of something that is now considered as an entire concept and use it to exclude others. So many people have sentimental value towards the term littlespace. Littlespace for a lot of individuals is a term that helps them feel calm and grounded and many people have memories attached to the term. It is not fair to take that away from others since the term is polysemous now. If people using the term littlepace aren’t causing harm to anyone and It is not illegal for those not in kink to use this term then people need to ageee to disagree and leave them alone by not interacting with each other.

How can I use the term littlespace safely if I’m not a participant of kink?

Using the term littlespace as a minor or a person not in kink is best off of social media and only around people you trust who feel the same way you do about the term. If you are already using the term littlespace on social media it’s best you do so in an environment where the term will not be mixed in with how those in kink use this term. This means it is best to use this term on social media platforms where you can make your account private, such as Instagram and Twitter. Not using the tag littlespace itself and not allowing those who can’t see the that the term littlespace is polysemous in your interaction criteria (DNI) is also important. If you are a minor, no adults in kink communities should be following you. As always you have to continuously be careful on the internet. Please remember internet safety! Always block those that make you uncomfortable. 💗 Please be careful.

*People will still be uncomfortable regardless of either way you decide to use the term (for kink purposes or for non-kink purposes) Please treat others how they should be treated and respect everyone! If you don’t have anything informative or nice to say don’t say anything at all.

[old-mewmewcore]

y’know i realized that I’m not much of an age regressor, I just like the aesthetic and I almost never regress. I’m always embarrassed by it. I don’ t even like the communities. There are so many pointless communities and dramas. Like calm the fuck down and just be babies jfc. And stop being so whiny and sensitive oml.

[nmik-agere]

I understand your point but age regressors can take photos of things they like while they’re regressed...

Age regression is a chronologically earlier or less adapted pattern of behavior and feeling. When someone is regressed their brain is in a deep psychological shift. They experience this shift; in other words they safeguard their mind unconsciously as an instinct learned through trauma against feelings and thoughts that are too difficult for them to cope with consciously. They do this to escape and protect themselves. Even if an individual were to regress because of a positive trigger they need to be supervised online because they are mentally children, they do not have the same thought process as an adult would. Tumblr and instagram are 13+ platforms that can potentially be dangerous for someone in an unconscious state that happens as a response due to trauma and mental illnesses that the brain uses to escape and protect them. Age regressors and children in general need to be looked after in environments that won’t trigger or affect them negatively. Social media isn’t the right place to insure that won’t happen. It is easy for children to be manipulated and taken advantage of. It is easy for children to become terrified. It is easy for age regressors to be targeted online by those who have bad intentions. I personally never see children under twelve years old on social media platforms worrying about taking aesthetic photos of all of their toys and coloring books they have, it’s also not common for an age regressor to want to be photogenic with novelty items that weren’t present in their youth. Most children under twelve years old that have social media accounts have a guardian running their account for them or helping them do so. (For safety reasons and because children are usually not the best at taking photos or articulating themselves clearly.) It would be the same for age regressors as well. With the kink community being so associated to childhood and online agere in general it is safer for age regressors not to be online, any guardian can agree with that. Of course there are safe ways a caregiver can create and monitor an age regressors account away from the kink community and the online agere community, but taking all of this information into account and going through your options of what to do to insure that the child’s safety is priority is the reason why you commonly don’t see regressed individuals online today. They are being cared for and they are being a child. Depending on the situation, age regressors need to have the childhood that they didn’t have. Social media was not huge part of many people’s childhood, only today in this generation it is.

[someonesteaparty]

do don’t like age regressers

idk it just grosses me out when ever I see something age regression related I get shivers ugh. Even worse I can’t relate to any of the shit these people talk about! Or most people. I feel bad for the ‘caregivers’ tho having someone age regress must be so annoying. Ngl I’d probably leave someone if they age regress. Actually that would be ideal because judging by my track record I wouldn’t like them anyway so having them age regress would be the perfect chance for me to leave without getting in trouble. Holy shit that would actually be perfect!

[tiredofagerecommunity]

The age regression or "agere" community steals assets from communities such as ageplay, abdl, babyfur, etc. The irony of their comments about being "anti kink or nsfw ] and when they say "DNI ageplay, babyfur, abdl ect..." is that they are wearing onesies, diapers, pacifiers, bottles, etc...

THAT WE MADE FOR THE KINK AND FETISH COMMUNITY, this is frustrating because we made these items as these are kink/fetish items made for our kink/fetish, they're not for you, so back off, puritan/puriteen minors and adults, and why don't you grow the fuck up and leave the community alone.

This is why the dualcom community exists, because we are tired of puritan toxic "agere communites" that we have to get out of. You need to outgrow this "puritan sfw agere/littlespace" and other made-up shitty fake tags nonsense and join a community that relies and is based heavily on consent.

END OF RANT!!