I have to talk to my "littleself" a lot just like this. Trying to parent yourself while giving your littleself the childhood you wanted is a hard mix ;v;
It is! Its frustrating when you know you're in a safe place, or with safe people, and you still feel the need to parent your littleself rather than let them have what they want for a change.
YES THAT'S IT
Plus like my littleself got hurt recently so I've been even more on guard lately. Which also sucks cuz they just wanna have fun but I gotta look out for what's best for them
You gotta be strong for them and hopefully you can bring down those walls to let them run free like they should be <3
This is so much of being a regressor also on the ABDL scene tbh.
You spend a lot of time being quite guarded and there's a lot of needing to manage inputs and outputs and deciding when is and isn't a safe or good time to be able to let that little side flourish and do its thing - often managing multiple headspaces at once.