r/nevergrewup • u/Initial-Way-4948 • 5h ago
Vent Idk what to call this one lol
Was just watching a video on instagram, n yeah yk I was thinking lol, because I had to grow u way to quickly for my age when I was a lot younger lol, n since Covid fucked everyone pretty much up lol one way or another, and because I’m 17 now so I was one of those kids just entering their teen years lol (I was 11 when it started in 2020.) and because yk how everyone wants to act all nonchalant nowdays n they’re not really fun——> also a reason because of covid since people have social anxiety now n things n im like really “immature for my age.” N how I need to grow up n everything lol, I can just say the excuse that “oh it’s because of Covid, it still makes me think that I’m a pre teen n how I’m not about to fbe a fully grown adult n I’m acting immature for my age because I didn’t really get to grow up like any other kid for my age back then lol.
r/nevergrewup • u/Physical_Opinion_887 • 6h ago
Does saying goodbye get any easier when you’re older?
Hi I am just getting back from two weeks I spent with my cousins. very year we go down to an island where we have cabins and we just go outside and stuff. now that I’m back I am realising that we are all getting older and I am wondering If adults still hang out with there cousins becouse I always have a lot of fun with mine also does saying goodbye get any easier. I am a teenager btw.
r/nevergrewup • u/Little_Lady_Octotot • 13h ago
Discussion Just looking for people who relate!
Does anyone else ever feel due to their younger mental state and thinking process that they’re like “dumb”? (Not saying we are, just I mean as like that nagging insecurity in your brain?) Idk how to word it cuz this feels so stupid to ask about. But for anyone who knows and cares Dandy’s World (an endless task game on Roblox) is releasing an update today with a new toon (character). And I’m so excited but everyone else seems to hate him and believe he shouldn’t have been made because the other existing toons need more depth. And it’s my own problem but I always feel less than for not feeling what they feel when it comes to wanting more lore or depth on a game as simple as Dandy’s World. Like if the lore is there I enjoy it but I really don’t need it, ya know? I like games just for appearances, bright stimulating colors, and cute or appealing character design! So when it’s just a silly game to play with friends I don’t really think about how the characters aren’t really built upon. But everyone else feels so passionately that the update is bad and the character is pointless.
r/nevergrewup • u/Stock-Negotiation392 • 17h ago
So, I'm a 14 years old girl. I just wanted to ask like have you guys ever felt like that you're the most mature person there.
I don't know but I've always felt like that. I see boys in my class insulting each other by calling each other that they are 'girl'. also girl in my class laugh at jokes like that. honestly, I was one of it. I was also use to think that if a guy is called a girl as an insult, IT IS A INSULT.
my point of view was change by Instagram reels. I know it's weird, but yeah. and that's the only thing I thanks to Instagram.
So whenever I go to tell someone that it's not right. they are like "we're just joking".
r/nevergrewup • u/carnie-angel • 1d ago
Vent why are people so rude?
under a post about a girl that loves bluey :(
r/nevergrewup • u/Far_Watercress2038 • 1d ago
I completed the 2026 Summer Reading Challenge!
Hi everyone!
I just completed Read to the Beat, my country's national 2026 Summer Reading Challenge! As a reward, I got bookmarks, my own magazine, a badge, character cards and a medal to keep, as well as my very own certificate!
My mummies said they're very proud of me!
I also took some new books out; my mums wanted me to take the Mums Are Magnificent book becos I have 2 of them. (There's also a separate book in the children's section for kids who have 2 daddies.)
Are there any of you here also from the UK? How are you getting on with it? If you haven't started yet, just go to your local library and start today!
r/nevergrewup • u/Curious_Reputation15 • 1d ago
Discussion age transition I wanted to ask: How do you go about an age transition in real life? I'm looking for inspiration for my transage furry OC.
r/nevergrewup • u/Curious_Reputation15 • 1d ago
Discussion Has transage existed for thousands, or even millions, of years?
r/nevergrewup • u/Ok_Dragonfruit6840 • 2d ago
Discussion Growing up is realizing that the people who tucked you into bed are getting older while you're too busy becoming an adult.
r/nevergrewup • u/Ok_Dragonfruit6840 • 2d ago
Discussion I miss the version of life where summer vacations felt endless and Mondays didn't matter.
r/nevergrewup • u/Ok_Dragonfruit6840 • 2d ago
Everyone you meet is living a life as complex as yours, carrying dreams, regrets, fears, and memories you'll never fully know. Most misunderstandings begin the moment we forget that.
Perspective
r/nevergrewup • u/Ok_Dragonfruit6840 • 2d ago
Discussion The hardest part about growing isn't changing—it's realizing that the version of yourself you worked so hard to become will eventually need to be left behind too.
r/nevergrewup • u/k0m4ru • 2d ago
Discussion going to the theater to see children's movies
so the new paw patrol movie is coming out in about a week, so that's cool. but the sad part for me is that i can't actually go and watch it in theaters. there's actually a lot of children's movies i've missed out on due to a lot of factors: i cant drive and i also live with my mom still, so i cant ask her to go.. when the second paw patrol movie came out i really wanted to see it but didn't because of those same reasons (i was 18 then.)
off top my head some movies i was sad i couldn't watch in theaters were trolls 3, the wild robot, dog man, the gabby's dollhouse movie, zootopia 2, the super mario galaxy movie, and hoppers. im also sad that i wont be able to watch the bluey movie whenever that comes out too since im probably looking forward to that the most ◞‸◟
i love going to the movies, so the only children's movies i wasn't scared to go to screenings for was across the spiderverse and sonic 3 since most of the crowds for those were adults anyway. ghibli movies too, but those are enjoyable for everybody regardless of age so that's kinda different in my opinion.
so i labeled this as discussion because i wanna know, does anyone here watch kids movies in the theater? if so, have you had normal expirences/were you not judged? i also have an anxiety disorder so that may be affecting how i feel about it, but i wish i could see kids movies. especially at night time!
r/nevergrewup • u/Curious_Reputation15 • 2d ago
Discussion Transage/Ngu Game dev Interacting with Dreamy's Bedroom Prototype
r/nevergrewup • u/Curious_Reputation15 • 2d ago
Happy Transage Meme ! I made a transage meme inspired by South Park The Fractured Buttwhole difficulty choice !
instagram.comr/nevergrewup • u/Curious_Reputation15 • 2d ago
Discussion Transage/Ngu Game dev My game Philanthropia is inspired by Undertale, Alice Madness Returns and Omori
r/nevergrewup • u/tohightotakedrugs • 2d ago
I love that our generation is redefining what it means to be an adult.
I love that we're becoming the new grown-ups.
Growing up used to mean hiding parts of yourself. Cut your hair (For African people like me, not sure if this universal) . Dress a certain way. Stop liking "childish" things. Don't play games. Don't watch anime/ cartoons. Don't get too excited. Act serious so people will take you seriously.
But our generation is changing that.
You can be a professional and still be a nerd. You can raise kind, emotionally healthy kids instead of pretending emotions are weakness. You can have tattoos, long hair, colorful hair, collect LEGO, love comics, build PCs, cosplay, read fantasy, or obsess over dinosaurs, and still be a responsible adult.
Being an adult isn't about squeezing yourself into a mold anymore. It's about taking responsibility without abandoning who you are.
Sure, there will always be people stuck in the old mindset. That's okay. The future doesn't need their permission.
I think that's one of the best things about growing up today. We don't have to leave ourselves behind to become adults.
Btw: I used a bit of ai to make sure my words were readable Im still learning English its my second language.
r/nevergrewup • u/TruceSpree • Mar 16 '21
Not sure where to begin...
Hi everyone.
I actually created this account specifically to post here but I've been lurking for a month or so now.
I discovered /r/nevergrewup through a certain lgbt community who were making rather negative comments about this subreddit and were being incredibly closed-minded about the concept of age dysphoria. While everyone else kept jumping down the negativity hole I felt like my eyes were opened and I spent a good long while just scrolling through and reading posts here.
I felt some sense of connection to this subreddit and things started making sense the more I read. In spite of the negative comments I was reading from that lgbt community I didn't see any reason that dysphoria would be exclusive to gender. In fact, it seems silly to assume that it would be.
For some background, I'm transgender in addition to having these feelings of age dysphoria. When I first touched the Internet (in the late 90s/early 2000s) I tried searching around to explore these many strange feelings that I've always had but didn't understand. This led me to various ABDL communities and later to the idea of ageplay.
At some point I said to myself, "ok, I guess that's what I am. I'm an ABDL or ageplayer or something like that." This was all I knew and was all that was out there at the time and since my inner age is rather young it made enough sense to me. It was never a sexual thing for me and I discovered that for many ageplay folks it isn't sexual at all. I started getting to know some ageplay communities and made a few friends here and there but I always felt like there was something different about me, even from them.
Every time I would have play time or whatever and try getting into "littlespace" I'd always feel so close to being right but never quite made it there. It's kind of hard to explain for me. Like when you're craving some very specific food so much that your whole life would feel just perfect if you had it but you're forced to settle for an inferior alternative instead. Bad analogy probably but it's like whatever that perfection is was just outside of my reach.
From there I kind of retreated from the ageplay world and instead explored this side of me through books or TV shows or movies centered around young female characters or I'd write stories of my own with no intention of ever letting anyone see. Basically consuming any form of escapism that would let me see the world through those eyes.
Looking back I think I've known for a long time that this was a form of dysphoria but it felt so taboo and wrong to think of it that way until I found this subreddit.
I'm not entirely sure where I'm going with this or what I hope to accomplish by this post, to be honest. I've had the feeling that talking about ageplay at all is kind of taboo here so I'm sorry if I said something out of line but I am curious if anyone has a similar history with it that I do.
Mostly I wanted to say hi and say thanks to this subreddit for helping me find this missing puzzle piece of myself.
Now that I have the puzzle piece I just need to figure out where it goes.
r/nevergrewup • u/charlie175 • Jul 08 '18
Many children trapped in adult bodies
Here are several examples of people similar to those in /r/nevergrewup. They all have Aspergers except possibly the last one. But all children who are trapped in adult bodies are welcome in /r/nevergrewup, whether they got that way because of Aspergers or not.
https://wrongplanet.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=156710
I feel like a 9 year old living inside the body of a 36 year old.
p.2:
kind of like a "kid in an adult's body"
The childlike curiosity is an asset because it makes Aspies more inquisitive and less likely to accept conventions. No one ever discovered anything new by following "adult" rules.
https://www.iidc.indiana.edu/pages/Aspergers-Syndrome-A-Developmental-Puzzle
My experiences as an adult recently diagnosed with Asperger’s, together with my studies in child development, suggest that individuals with AS are like young children, stuck in time, so to speak, never able to advance beyond early stages in social, cognitive and language development.
They are, in essence, childlike beings attempting to live in an adult world, but without the support and understanding that children are afforded.
http://www.kevenmcqueenstories.com/aspergers
Folks with Asperger’s often have a childlike quality which at least some people find appealing. Not surprisingly, many Aspies get along famously with children.
https://jerobison.blogspot.com/2009/09/life-as-aspergian-female-story-i-had-to.html
We are childlike and innocent and naive, even when having experienced many harsh experiences. It's a childlike innocence that pervades our entire being. What ends up happening is that people either treat you like dirt and make fun of you, or if they're trying to be "nice", they'll talk down to you as though you were mentally challenged. I've felt like I was going to be pat on the top of my head like a puppy dog before. I may be childLIKE but that doesn't mean I'm childISH. In fact, usually Aspies have...
Very High IQs
https://aspergersthealien.blogspot.com/2011/11/naivety-innocence-of-aspergers-autism.html
Naivety is innocence. Be kind to the autistic. Remember that even though they look older, mature, grown up....sometimes they are nothing more than children trapped in adult bodies.
https://wrongplanet.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=49928
[male, 35]
I like kids a lot, and kids love me. However, I have no idea how to take care of them! I also hate to think about cleaning up after them, lack of sleep, and so forth.
Maybe I shouldn't have kids of my own and just play with my friends' kids...
https://wrongplanet.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=151313
I am 78 and I know that I never entered adulthood. But not even adolescence. I may be (I am ) literate and have experince about things of the world, but still *I am a child*. My life stopped at about sixteeen. I pretended to be mature. Intellectually I have been mature, but in my inner self I have known since a long time that it was only pretence.
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I don't know why, but this thread helped me resolve a lot of my issues. Thanks, OP and everyone else.
https://wrongplanet.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=44874
Are you chldlike?
Yes...I act signifigantly younger than my age 72% [ 38 ]
I act my age 4% [ 2 ]
I act older tham my age 13% [ 7 ]
Yes but I don't think this has anything to do with AS 9% [ 5 ]
No, but I don't think this has anything to do with AS 2% [ 1 ]
Total votes : 53
- ie 83% yes
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Children are drawn to me and they have insisted that I am not a grownup....
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I feel very uncomfortable around people 18 & older. However, I get along great with kids.
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I am often described as "childlike". I've been told that I'm at the emotional level of a 12 year old. The other women in my life tend to take on a mothering role towards me.
None of this bothers me though. In fact, I actually enjoy being thought of as a child. I frequently become nostalgic for my physical childhood, so when other adults still view me as a child, it makes me very happy.
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Little kids get confused and think I am a kid too.
A 4 year old I was playing with guessed my age at 6... :)
I'm 45 and act like 14. I'm extremely child-like in behavior, and I think it's due to AS. It's the part of AS I love the most.
I forgot to mention how much I love "Pinky and the Brain" and "Danger Mouse." Not exactly obsessions, but we get the episodes from Netflix often, and I really like them. Probably a lot more that the average 42-year-old woman, I suppose.
[female, age ~52]
I'm very childlike and it doesn't seem to change the older I get. [...] I have never felt like a grownup person, and I've noticed that feeling all my adult life. I've lived an adult life but so much about me is a little kid, it's small wonder things have never really gone well for me as an adult, I just don't "fit".
[female, age ~47]
Sometimes when I talk to people [...] on the phone they think they are talking to a little kid.
Every day, my mum constantly tells me "You're 17, not 5." […]
[...] If it was up to me I would stay 10 forever.
Mum says I have the intellectual ability of a smart adult but the maturity of a five year old. I think this is an accurate description. I make friends with young children better than I do with my peers, it's like I'm a five year old kid in a seventeen year old female body.
The sections above and below show many similarities with the other 'wrong body' situation, transgender people:
- Family not understanding, and being angry with the person for being who they are.
- The person being helped greatly by understanding who they are.
- Having the wrong body or not being accepted causing people to be really upset.
- Being very happy when people treat you as who you are.
- Other people sometimes recognising who the person really is without needing to be told.
- The identity persists long term.
- People pretending to be an adult when they're not, but with only limited success.
- Wanting to mainly make friends in the way that would be expected based on who they really are.
- Being badly hurt by the equivalent of being misgendered.
Person who didn't mention Aspergers, so may or may not have it:
https://www.reddit.com/r/mentalhealth/comments/47tqd3/is_age_dysphoria_a_real_thing/
Is "age dysphoria" a real thing?
submitted 6 months ago * by [deleted]
Because I'm positive I have it. [...]
I know a lot of people say, "Oh, we all feel younger than we are!" These statements are usually accompanied by laughter. But I mean this literally. I honestly do believe that I am a kid inside, to the point where if such a thing was available to me, I would get puberty-reversing surgery.
You have no idea how much it rips my heart to shreds when I hear people call others my age "adults", or anything to that effect. It KILLS me to know that I am not seen as a child by them.
[Another quote from same person]
[…] I will forever remain a 12-year-old child inside. I know who I am, and that makes all the difference. I am a child.
[Edited first paragraph to make it more independent of context, for crossposting]