Trans age maps

[mrlolicon93]

What are your thoughts on trans age pedophiles?

Basically an adult man who identifies as a little girl or an adult woman who identifies as a young boy basically a child trapped in the body of an adult.

How common is it in the map community?

Do you think it is legit or just a form of emotional immaturity/arrested development?

Also, is it common among maps to be emotionally or mentally immature or have arrested development since a lot of us see minors as our equals and have a hard time connecting with people our own age?

[Grunko]

I think that is very possible. I think there are many MAP’s who have a childlike personality and find them more fun. I also think Trans-Age is very real and Age Dyphoria. A lot of people may feel Trans-Age because they feel they are different from the typical person or feel their age is different from how they feel about themselves as an individual.

I think it is very possible for Adults to naturally have loads in common with children- particularly if you like kids movies, love playgrounds, having a water fight, being silly or dressing up etc. and children may find the adult fun.

[Grunko]

Also, is it common among maps to be emotionally or mentally immature or have arrested development since a lot of us see minors as our equals and have a hard time connecting with people our own age?

I think in regards to treating children as equals, I would say adults and children (particularly teenagers), treat each other like peers without realising especially in general public like public transport, shops, restaurants, parks etc. If an adult is does not hold any position of trust like a teacher, social worker or parent etc. then they may feel they shouldn’t really have any authority over the child. If a 13 year old riding a bike without a helmet, unless the adult is a position of trust or an authoritative figure, the adult may feel they have no power or right to tell the 13year old to wear the helmet- all they could do is advise and may to speak to them as in a similar way how another peer may speak like “if I was you, I would wear a helmet…. are you sure it is a good idea..? but doing it in a way you are not telling them what to do. If a teenager smokes on the train, and an adult who is not an authority figure tells them to not smoke, the teenager is probably not going to listen or be like “who are you to tell me to what to do.” Etc. If you know what I mean.

I think sometimes people can forget their age and you feel more like their peer even though one may be 15 and other may be 30. But I don’t know whether you would say children and adults is a bit like Tom and Jerry.

[WavesInEternity]

It's interesting to note that autopedophilia and erotic-target identity inversion are common phenomena among MAPs: https://www.thecut.com/2016/11/heres-a- ... hiles.html

When I look at lolicon or write erotica, I sometimes do fantasize about being the little girl, although I wouldn't say it's central to my sexuality. I'd say it was slightly more common for me when I was younger... my masculine/dominant/penetrative role seems to have settled in with experience.

From about age 10, I felt like "an adult trapped in the body of a child". It was a mix of high-functioning autism (Asperger's syndrome), being very sexually precocious, philosophical and melancholic inclinations, and extreme family problems that required me to take responsibilities upon myself close to those of a father to my two younger sisters.

Nowadays, I display both very "adult" characteristics (e.g. a serious interest in philosophy and politics, protectiveness and responsibility towards others, and a keen awareness of my mortality) and childlike ones (e.g. I like anime/manga and cute things, have a wild imagination, don't judge others, and can be pretty irresponsible in my personal life).

[Grunko]

I know sometimes some people may lie about their age. But I wonder whether that may be because they feel that age. They feel if they give their actual age, they people have this image of what that person is and assume things about them when in reality none of them may not be true. Whether they lie about their age because that the age they feel inside.

[John_Doe]

I don't really agree with the concept and I think it may introduce some of the same problems that I have with the idea of psychological gender (i.e. it allows for essentialist gender stereotypes; which leads to stereotype threat, and seems to be the justification for normative gender roles; which are inhibiting, prevent people from expressing themselves naturally or being who they want to be and reaching their potential, discourage men specifically from being moral people, involve shaming people for not living up to pointless if not unrealistic standards, etc.).

A 30-year-old with some of the same psychological traits or tendencies that he had at 10 is a 30-year-old who has maintained some of the same traits or tendencies he had at 10. Instead of arguing that he's a 10-year-old trapped in the body of a 30-year-old I think it makes more sense to develop a culture where's he's free to express himself in the ways that are natural and/or appealing to him. The concept of being trans-aged seems to me like making an exemption for certain people instead of addressing the problem head on ("Adults shouldn't read middle-grade fiction intended for 5th graders," "I'm not really an adult, I'm actually a 10-year-old in an adult's body,", ~social movement to legitimize the concept of trans-aged people~, "My mistake, carry on."). It might be a little more complicated when we get into what a 'child' is (someone who's not sexually mature? Someone who hasn't reached their potential?-which says nothing about what they actually are. Are there really qualitative black and white differences between 'children' and 'adults' to begin with? Strictly speaking, I don't think a non-child can have 'childish' traits but speaking casually we might just mean 'the traits that one had as a child, traits that most people might lose or at least possess to a weaker degree as adults.' Truly juvenile traits must be possessed by all and only children, I'm not saying that it's practically meaningless but the concept of childhood seems ultimately arbitrary, depending on what exactly we're talking about) but even if someone has some kind of developmental abnormality, someone with 30 years of life experience (I assume that most people aren't capable of forming long-term memory until 3 but I'm sure we're still affected by what happens to us at 2 or 1 or earlier in terms of implicit memory and conditioning) has 30 years of life experience regardless of their personality, cognition etc., it's not like switching bodies or a human vegetable only becoming conscious after 20 years where someone could find themselves in a 30-year-old body despite only having 10 years of life experience.

[Curson]

I dunno about trans age... but I feel very age dysphoric at times for sure since I have very limited social and life experience. I feel like a teenager most of the time, very awkward, unsure of what to do sometimes.

[Not Forever]

What are your thoughts on trans age pedophiles?

I am one of those people who perceives themselves in an extremely childish way, as if they never really left adolescence. But honestly, I would reserve the label “transgender” for those who truly need it.

Not for people who “identify” in a certain way, but for those who suffer because they do not identify that way, or because others do not identify them that way; in other words, for those who have a real dysphoric disorder and, because of it, need to be recognized in a certain way.

So, for a diagnosed medical condition.

[xavier_hutcherson]

I willingly engage in AB/DL (AdultBaby/DiaperLover) fetishism, but im not for sure how pertinent that is to your question. given my kink is a... kink lol as opposed to an identity