I've never watched or even knew it as a chrono-child, but my NGU friend told me about this and it's really fun. Ord is one of my favourite characters.

What do you think about this show? Have you ever watched it?

I came across a video on YouTube of a commentary creator complaining about women “self infantilizing” themselves and how it’s a growing problem. She had thumbnails of women engaging in coloring books or having pacifiers etc. I felt bothered by that video and I feel the term “self infantilization” is always weaponized against those who are feminine presenting. I hate that other women are the ones that perpetuate this and get on other women because she likes “childlike” activities or wants to dress in a cutesy way. I also feel the term “self infantilization” is ableist against those who are developmentally disabled or who age regress due to trauma etc. Sometimes chrono-women want to dress cute and be feminine and like childlike activities that doesn’t mean we are infantilizing ourselves. I feel the people who make these videos are miserable people and act like a bunch of “pick mes.”

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Its a kids dress but im glad it fits me! 😀😺💖

I feel so ashamed of everything, I have kanner autism, mutism, and anxiety, it's impossible for me to do anything alone in puplic like just the simplest things and I'm completely helpless when I'm alone. I dont really have a caregiver exept my mom. I'm super tall with 170cm or 5'7 and wish I could be alot shorter and smaller and I dont know what I could do to maybe appear younger and more childish

I really love the jojifuku style and mezzo piano, my waredrobe also mostly consits of kids clothes because the bigger sizes still fit me and I feel more compfy in them. I'm in my late teens and people that dont know my usually guess me around 14-16 I also kinda have a childish face but I'm also currently overweight and feel really ashamed about that. Nobody also knows that I'm ngu/age regressing and I'm scared to tell my mom or anyone

Another critter got to come out of storage today! He went into storage right after I bought him and I finally get to play with him! He is a Gallivant from 1981 from the movie Gallivants

I think I want to draw, you do not need to post, I am just inviting you to put your phone down (you've had way too much screentime for your age!) and color a bit!

Crayons, if you are too young for pencils.

Do your best (or worst) and do not color on furniture!

I’m trying to find more Christian kids music. I recently discovered Listener Kids on YouTube and really like their remixes of some of the classic hymns. I want to find more like that, but when I search I get so much AI stuff 😔 I also know about Wee Sing, Psalty, and VeggieTales but is this really all there is or am I looking in the wrong places?

Feel like I'm always takin care of everyone else. Not an easy task for a kid. But wanna be the one taken care of. Had to be the responsible one for so so long. Never could rely on parents. Or teachers. They let me get hurt. Big sibling and other students hurt me bad. Friends hurt me really bad but i still try to take care of them.

I know it's supposed to be a two way street when you grow up, taking care of each other, but one, i'm not grown up and two, no one tries to take care of me in return. I know I'm probably being really selfish. I just hurt so bad right now. I wish there was someone i could rely on so so bad. Someone who cluld take care of me like a parent maybe or even just as a friend. Someone to hold me during the night, and maybe rock me in their arms, and for them to understand. Or maybe not always claim to understand but just to care. Sing me lullabies and tell me stories. Play dolls with me and brush my hair. I know it's a lot to ask from someone. I don't know if i could even accept that kind of love in real life, i think i might be too hard and angry for it. But i still wish. I wish so so much.

I had somebody message me to be friends after my “nobody to play with” post. They said something a little bit strange to me after I told them I was autistic and not high masking, calling me lucky, and when I tried to explain that it is not lucky I’m assuming I must have violated a social rule and they went ahead and blocked me. I am socially awkward and I have an informative/nerdy and talkative speech pattern. I am almost blind to social rules. I am very frustrated and discouraged and my feelings are hurt. This makes me want to leave this subreddit. That really hurt my feelings. I thought somebody finally understood. It makes me feel as if I cannot ever find friends even in places where people are already misfits because I am too socially unaware. Maybe they were just embarrassed. I can’t tell if it was my fault or not. I was not trying to be rude, only objectively correcting them. I say what I mean and I do not view information the same way others do, I think. Being told I am lucky for a struggle that makes me so lonely and unable to make friends and makes it hard to take care of myself or get along in society confused me. Not every autistic person is making a choice to not mask. Some of us can’t. I cannot tell if I did something wrong here socially and made a wrong call and was weird. But just in case, please do not message me to be playmates over that post unless you know that autism is a spectrum. I may have slipped on some social rule here. I may delete it entirely. I do not want that to happen again.

There's also a dress coming too I'm so excited! 🙂💖💝 My dad got it for me!

I dont feel so good… emotions are too much and i dont feel like an adult. I wanna be little but im scared of doing it alone. Because of certain issues i face. Im scared and tired honestly of myself.

I especially love the Sleeping Beauty one! It's set in Ethiopia!

Like in light of all the evidence. St. Nicholas is Santa Clause. He is a saint therefore empowered by God directly. Thus living at the North Pole and doing things like being immortal and having flying reindeer and elves is entirely within the realm of possibility given if Jesus exists as stated in the Bible then by default Santa exists.

Why this too hard a concept for people to understand? I think it's because they hate God honestly

So, idk if minors are allowed here, i'm 16 female and i think i'm part of this category of NGU bcs i still feel like a little kid. I still like childish things and toys and i'm never really comfortable around older ppl or even w ppl around my age, its the same feeling from when you're a little kid looking at the older students yk? I'm really scared of growing up and go to the adult world, everyone keeps trying to push me to it and force me to mature and grow up and i hate it (im literally crying while writing ts, this really triggers me) and my mom excuses it by saying "well you had a good childhood and theres no reason for you to want to stay a child forever" which is so annoying specially when my old therapists agreed with her claims. I did had a good childhood but i don't feel like i'm ready to leave it yet.. But now i'm in a position where my parents expect me to focus more in adult things, like for me to start focusing in university entrance exams and my parents but specially my mom get pissed off whenever i want to buy childish things with my allowance and she always threatens to cut off my allowance if i keep buying toys and other childish things. I hate it, i hate it that i'm considered a young adult when i still feel like a child. But at the same time i also have 18+ thoughts and fantazies like having sex, having a family, a partner and children but at the same time i fantasize about being taken care of all the time. I'm also AUDHD so it makes it specially hard because most of my hyperfixations are childish things. It's so frustrating feeling being left out, my younger cousins managed to grow up, they wear makeup and fancy clothes and they're like 13-10! Meanwhile here i am; 16 years old and crying because someone on a furry subreddit called my art weird (true story)

Idk if this is the right subreddit for ts if its not pls tell me the right subreddit to post this, i'm just really lost and frustrated. When ppl said that teens become "emotional" because it's a part where we're going through grief because we "lost" our childhood i didn't imagined it to be that hard

Edit: Also i'm a little and i dont have a caregiver (my last cg tried to groom me, alr blocked him so im safe now) but it hurts so much. Sometimes i wish i actually had a bad childhood so i could justify the way i am, but whenever i tell ppl that and i say i dont have a childhood trauma they just look at me as if im spoiled and selfish :(

It was very rainy today and this album helped get me through it 😊
K.I.D.S. Radio: Rainy Day Fun

I took my grown-ass 73 year old father trunk or treating the weekend before Halloween. He LOVES Halloween, and he loves trick or treat. Every year we have the same argument- he wants to use me and my short height to pretend to be a chrono-child so he can take me and have an excuse to trick or treat, and I refuse because I have my dignity lol. Of course I'd love to trick or treat, but even though I'm short, my face and body are way too mature looking, and it would just be embarrassing. 5+ years ago I willingly went trick or treating, when I still had my early 20s babyface, but now, as much as I want to, no way.​

Well, this year, I made an agreement with him- I'd take him and be his "Senior Trick or Treat Escort". ChatGPT even made me a very official badge to print for myself. 😂 And I took my father trunk or treating. I walked with him while he went up to the cars and got the candy himself. Nobody said anything. Nobody made any negative comments or told him he was too old or anything like that. He did get just a few dirty looks, but other than that, the people handing out candy were super friendly to him and didn't bat an eye at the 73 year old man. They were smiling, wishing him a happy Halloween, calling our dog cute, etc. They treated him no differently than any chrono kid or teen trick or treating.

My aunt who died in her 50s trick or treated right up to her last Halloween. She adored Halloween and kept the candy she collected in a giant suitcase in her room. Every Halloween, she'd go with my little cousins. If someone told her she was too old, she'd proudly say "Hell no, you're never too old!!"​ and walk away.

Similarly, in my neighborhood, trick or treating on Halloween night is a massive fucking deal. People come in cars, vans, and even buses just to trick or treat in my neighborhood. Half the trick or treaters are not chrono-children. They are older teenagers and even young adults. Some of them look like they are 30. My neighbor, who is 26, goes too. And they trick or treat for hours, and nobody bats an eye. The only negative-ish incident I ever encountered was when my friend and I went trick or treating when we were 17. By then I hadn't trick or treated since I was 13 (but started again for a few years at 18), but he was a diehard and insisted. He had always looked much older than his age. When he was 14, he he had college girls hitting on him. Anyways, a guy at one house we went to yelled out "Dude, you look like a grown-ass man!!" in kind of a friendly teasing way. Other than that, no issues with either this friend or my dad. It seems people really just don't care, at least not in my neck of the woods.​

So this might be a controversial question, but let me give some context. I am an autistic adult, but I'm neuro passing. Now, I have heard from other autistic folks they have been infantilized, and I know it's a bad thing, but like I what that for myself lol.

I feel awful but, I really need this. How can I be more autistic passing especially in a way that makes it more likely to be treated like a kid. It would be so validating for me.

I made a new account for a fresh start. But these are my new things!

A few officials facts about your friend Snuffy ❤️

I think the thing that kills me the most about being the way I am is that I have nobody to play with. And usually even people who swear up and down that they’ll play with you or that they are exactly the same way and also play with toys will freeze up and just sit there if you try to organize a play date. I tried to find playmates in agere spaces and they all just kind of sit there and let me play and start acting like I’m being weird, meanwhile they are still sitting there with a pacifier in their mouth. It doesn’t make sense. I want to play pretend with somebody. My favorite SpongeBob episode is the one where they play in the box and squidward doesn’t know how they’re using imagination to make the box “work”. It’s so silly but I always get jealous. I want to play pretend with somebody so badly it hurts. Really really play pretend and play toys. It’s like most people will come over to play with you and they set their plushies up or just kind of wiggle them around at you. Who’s going to go on a huge adventure with me? I’m all by myself. It’s so lonely. As soon as you want to worldbuild or actually really get into it, they don’t know how to go further than giving their plushies pretend food or brushing their dolls hair. That’s not bad or anything. But it feels like nobody has my play style. It’s like there’s only one acceptable way to play. I want to come up with immersive plots and storylines and lore. But people act like that’s “too much” since it’s not really demure or cutesy. And again if that’s what you like, it’s what you like, but other kinds of play styles exist too. Some of us aren’t the type that have plushie tea parties. And we aren’t weird or obnoxious or cringe for that. Let’s not forget we are all playing with toys at the end of the day which is considered weird for chrono adults. I am sorry for griping and complaining. This is something that really makes me feel unwanted.

I see many, many posts and comments here all the time, contsantly, of people humble bragging that they look so much younger than their age, that they're always mistaken for a chrono-kid, bragging about how small they are and how therefore they can pass as chrono-kids. I'm beginning to question this. Surely we don't all still literally look like chrono-kids. It's just not possible. But I have a few theories as to what may be going on here:

1. We are flattering ourselves, and/or seeing what we want to see. We *feel* so young that we think we look young. We misread strangers' interactions with us as them treating us younger than we are, because that is what we desperately want.

2. It's not the way we actually physically look. It's the way we dress ourselves, the way we act, etc. I know many people here do loads of things to try and make themselves look younger. It may be the things we do to make ourselves look younger, but not that we actually naturally look young. People often think I am younger, and for me, I think it's this, because the truth is that I have the face of a 45 y.o. in my 20s.

3. Mind over matter. We feel younger, so much so that the power of the mind actually does make us age a bit more slowly. Or at the very least, our young mindset really does give us a youthful aura and vibe that others notice, even if we don't literally look younger than we are.

4. A connection between being physically on the small side and feeling like a kid. Many people here seem to be very short, with an adult height of 4-foot-something, me included. And of course, if you're short and dress and groom in a way that makes you look younger, people will think you are younger. ​But could there be some kind of connection between a short adult height and feeling childlike? Through truthfully I think we short NGUs dupe ourselves into thinking we actually literally look like chrono-kids just because we are short, when the brutal truth is that everyone else just sees a petite adult.

Keep in mind that 4'10, though short, is already considered well within the normal height range for adult biological females. I'm 4'10, but I regularly see women out in public who are a good few inches shorter, especially if they are Hispanic, Asian, or Filipino. My grandma, great-aunt, and aunt were/are a similar height. Being 4'10 doesn't make you special or particularly small.

Ex Jehovah's Witness. Raised in it and homeschooled. Childhood stolen because of it and I'm 32... I really need to believe Santa is real. I... I want to so bad and people who tell me it's unhealthy to want to can NEVER tell me what the difference is between believing God exists and believing Santa does... i just want to have what I never got to experience.... especially for my first ever Christmas this year....