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It honestly reminds me of a young lady I actually met in college, ~20 years ago in the real world. I remember her name was Audrey, and she was a fellow history major at a large public university. She was a nice girl, and in talking to her between classes I learned: 1. She lives at home with her parents. Her parents don't let her drive, strictly control her time, they drop her off at campus at the start of the school day and pick her up after her last class. 2. She's never seen any movies that weren't "G" rated or TV other than broadcast TV. Her media consumption was carefully censored and monitored. 3. She dressed very demurely, her mother shops for and buys all her clothes and dresses her in a very old-fashioned, conservative way. 4. She's strictly prohibited from dating boys, in fact she didn't even want me remotely near her when she was going to her pickup point after her last class to be picked up. 5. She's not allowed to go to any extra-curricular events, ever. She wanted to join our RPG and anime clubs, but her parents strictly forbade it. Even though she was legally an adult, she had no real room to resist since she was as dependent on her parents as any child. 5. One of my friends went to High School with her, and she was much the same in High School, and never went to any extracurricular events, participated in any clubs, or had any friends outside of school. . .she was nice and friendly, and always wore those old-fashioned conservative dresses. In the real world, her parents were probably religious fanatics or something similar. . .but it's easy to see how someone like that in this world could easily be partially regressed and hiding pampers (or at least pullups) under those dresses. In college and passing all her classes, but failing potty training on a daily basis.
Jo
2023-11-25 02:48:16 +0000 UTCthe school records post shows one possible kind of schooling…. that kind is much more focused on an elementary school style curriculum and includes recess etc. in that context many of their new peers from across the city will be in similar situations, though i imagine the teasing and bullying between the girls in pampers vs the girls in pull-ups vs the girls holding on to cotton panties is probably very catty. demotion through the ranks is probably very socially alienating. however every situation is unique. i can certainly imagine a girl “choosing” to decline scholarships to universities out of state and attending a local community college instead. in some ways that could worse...
Anna
2023-11-11 22:19:03 +0000 UTC" . . . and living functionally pseudo-tween existence… while her peers go explore the world . . ." This could easily be even more humiliating than the more overt/complete regression you often depict. You still have to go to college, but it's the local school rather than the one hundreds/thousands of miles away from your overbearing mom. You attend classes dressed just demurely enough that other students wonder whether you're one of 'those' girls, and you fear that every crinkle will expose you. You have no car, can't date or party, and your internet usage is carefully and completely monitored. Pure downside.
Alex Hauser
2023-11-11 22:07:47 +0000 UTCi think you’re right there’s definite levels to regression. but im sure it’s not too much consolation to the ‘mostly unchanged’ girl missing all her milestones and living functionally pseudo-tween existence… while her peers go explore the world… 🤣🥲
Anna
2023-11-06 02:14:16 +0000 UTCor liberal democracy prevailed, the end of history happened and the ccp melted into a remote guerilla insurgency. i guess we simply don't know enough atm...
Anna
2023-11-05 19:09:19 +0000 UTCThat’s really cool I’d love to read your stories if you posted them somewhere? ❤️
Victoria the stinky princess
2023-11-05 17:07:02 +0000 UTCLate 1980's? Interesting. A few world-building tidbits made me think the point of divergence was further back, like "Kuomintang Moves into Shaanxi Highlands, Reds Flee" made me wonder if the Republic of China government never lost control of all the Chinese mainland, and the Chinese Civil War kept dragging on. If the point of divergence is only about 35 years in the past, that headline would mean that the ROC has successfully staged a land assault on the Chinese mainland and the PRC has been unable to repel them, to the point the ROC can put troops even in fairly remote parts of the Chinese mainland. I'm a history geek who got a M.A. with a focus in military history, and my undergrad senior thesis was on the Chinese civil war, so this is rather my field to dig in to.
Jo
2023-11-05 15:14:42 +0000 UTCThis makes me think about the idea that different mothers take rather different takes on how far to regress their daughters, even different daughters in the same family. Some may be sent back to elementary school or preschool, some may be practically regressed to infancy in every way. . .but for other mothers they may be satisfied with more modest regression like just swapping out their daughter's wardrobe with outfits more suitable for younger girls (said velvet dresses with white tights) and putting them back in diapers (even choosing full diapers or pullups based on the girl). . .and maybe some other products to help that little girl use her diapers for their intended purpose. After all, if the point is to keep girls from going out drinking, having sex, and getting in trouble, that could be accomplished by making them diaper dependent, revoking their driver's license, and putting them in clothes that signal to the world they need to be treated as a young girl. . .with no further regression required. Some will wind up in oversized cribs and spending all day in preschool for most of their 20's (especially with mothers nostalgic for caring for a child that young). . .others may wind up more-or-less with their life unchanged except winding up diaper dependent, wearing clothing more suitable for a girl half their age or less, and of course not dating, drinking, driving or doing so many other adult things (not the least of which is being legally declared a minor again, and authorities that would be quick to prosecute boyfriends of twentysomething toddlers for child ).
Jo
2023-11-05 15:07:05 +0000 UTCWill do. I certainly won't be disappointed or offended if you don't.
Alex Hauser
2023-11-04 23:47:31 +0000 UTCmessage me about them! i don't like to say i'm guaranteed to use them but i believe it all adds to the ~milieu~
Anna
2023-11-04 23:36:26 +0000 UTCI admire the pains you've taken to craft a world that feels so real without being compulsively elaborated (which can easily ruin immersion). It feels almost Borgesian in a way that I can't quite identify. I've worked out a few ideas in worlds inspired by yours. I've tried to keep them tonally and thematically consistent with yours. I don't know whether any of them would appeal to you, but they're yours for the taking if they do.
Alex Hauser
2023-11-04 23:29:50 +0000 UTCsame time as ours, but things diverged at some point in the past. based on available data it appears to be sometime in the late 1980s, but it's difficult to tell. there's definitely appears to be healthy competition - we all know that anti-competitive practices never develop in a true market economy.
Anna
2023-11-04 23:16:09 +0000 UTCThe tights are a nice touch. How intense is the competition between diaper manufacturers in your universe? Is the action set in our future, or in a different timeline altogether? These are the questions that keep me up at night.
Alex Hauser
2023-11-04 23:05:40 +0000 UTC
