After a lot of pondering, I honestly think I may be a kidfur.
And before you're like "what the heck?!", please give me a moment to explain!
I've been showing traits for years and I think I've just been in the kidfur closet the whole time.
While I am not really interested in the wearing diapers or baby things aspects (they are valid to folks who do enjoy those things, however), I do like the idea of regressing to the age of an 8-10 year old, since those were my happiest years as a kid and most memorable. It was right when Pokémon came out and I spent lots of time playing it and hanging out with the neighborhood kids in my dad's neighborhood. I was also collecting virtual pets like crazy.
Nostalgia is a huge coping mechanism for me and I find that watching old movies I grew up with, playing games I grew up with, wearing onesies, having plushies around, having a night light, etc., helps me regress and destress from my anxiety. Being an adult is stressful. I'm currently near my mid 30s, but I've always had a big inner child. And I've never really completely grown out of the 1990s and early 2000s lol.
And while the sexual aspect of age regression is completely valid and okay (we're in a furry fandom where kinks are normalized and accepted), it won't be a sexual thing for me. Just more of a comfort thing. I don't see myself "roleplaying" as a child, other than drawing/commissioning artwork of the content, but I do engage in childlike things from time to time because it brings me comfort! But that's okay. Everyone does things differently!
Idk. This is embarrassing. And new. I hope this doesn't affect people who know me. I'm still the same old me. But this may not be surprising to them at all. My friends learned recently and they kind of saw this coming haha.
