A coping mechanism and/or therapeutic practice wherein one’s mindset and behaviors regress to those of a child’s
Often abbreviated to Agere
Often abbreviated to Agere
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1. A psychological and metaphysical condition observed in individuals who experience cyclical temporal regression, typically triggered by death, and return to a fixed point in their personal timeline. The syndrome describes the progressive erosion of sanity and the conscious adoption of a fractured psyche as a direct result of the accumulated trauma from repeated deaths and lived experiences across multiple timelines.
2. The defining state where the subject ceases to perceive regression as a failure or a punishment, and instead weaponizes the process. By deliberately absorbing the existential dissonance and psychic feedback of their fractured existence, the subject transforms latent insanity into a source of power, strategic insight, or unconventional ability, viewing each life and death as an experimental data point for achieving a superordinate goal.
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1. A psychological and metaphysical condition observed in individuals who experience cyclical temporal regression, typically triggered by death, and return to a fixed point in their personal timeline. The syndrome describes the progressive erosion of sanity and the conscious adoption of a fractured psyche as a direct result of the accumulated trauma from repeated deaths and lived experiences across multiple timelines.
2. The defining state where the subject ceases to perceive regression as a failure or a punishment, and instead weaponizes the process. By deliberately absorbing the existential dissonance and psychic feedback of their fractured existence, the subject transforms latent insanity into a source of power, strategic insight, or unconventional ability, viewing each life and death as an experimental data point for achieving a superordinate goal.
Characters like 'Kim Gong-Ja' from the manhwa "SSS Class Suicide Hunter" and 'Encrid' from the manhwa "Eternally Regressing Knight" use their eternal regression curse as a tool and a method to get stronger, meanwhile also obtaining the insanity of being able to tolerate pain and death tens and even hundreds of times without giving up. This is the definition of the 'Regressive Insanity Syndrome'
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Calling it "age regression" is just a deliberate rebrand so people can say "I'm not an ageplayer" while engaging in the exact same behavior as ageplayers. It's the same practice, same community, same interests; just with a euphemism slapped on top to make it sound involuntary, therapeutic, or "non-sexual" and therefore less stigmatized.
The community that calls it "age regression" (especially the SFW crowd, the "trauma-based" crowd, or the "it's not a kink" crowd) is doing literally the same activities as the people who openly call it ageplay: wearing diapers, using pacifiers, sipping from bottles, coloring, stuffies, caregivers, little space, rules, punishments, cuddles, head-pats; everything is identical.
Calling it "age regression" is just a deliberate rebrand so people can say "I'm not an ageplayer" while engaging in the exact same behavior as ageplayers. It's the same practice, same community, same interests; just with a euphemism slapped on top to make it sound involuntary, therapeutic, or "non-sexual" and therefore less stigmatized.
The community that calls it "age regression" (especially the SFW crowd, the "trauma-based" crowd, or the "it's not a kink" crowd) is doing literally the same activities as the people who openly call it ageplay: wearing diapers, using pacifiers, sipping from bottles, coloring, stuffies, caregivers, little space, rules, punishments, cuddles, head-pats; everything is identical.
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Person 1: The fuck..? It sounds like something a pedo would use to excuse them trying to fuck a minor.
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Person 1: The fuck..? It sounds like something a pedo would use to excuse them trying to fuck a minor.
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I used to believe in this cause, but due to regressive activism, I no longer align with their views.
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