Signs that you were a little, from when you were actually a kid?

[Daddy's Snowflake]

Thanks for posting this topic.

 

I guess I never thought about it much but I now remember being told by my friends that they didn't want to play with Barbies any more. That it was too childish. And legos. I never had many legos as a child. I made sure my kids have tons.and I can build for hours even now. But I just thought everyone loved legos. A few weeks ago I made the amazing shark launching boat mobile. I have build offs with my kids. We all build cars and the race them. Until I was 8 I was alone alot. And I never got to really play like I wanted. And I was sexually abused around the age of 5 and repressed it till I was raped at 15. But for as long as I can remember I've been sexually active. The friends I did have at 6,7,8... we all "played" with each other. I'm not sure if it's normal or not. We were all girls. But I think I may have moved play time in that direction. I think it may be why I've been so protective over my children. I don't want anyone to go through what I went through.

 

But nowa days with Daddy's love protecting me I am able to bloom and not hide my emotions or thoughts. That is such a great thing. Because as adults we are supposed to be strong and decisive and independence. But that's hard and scary. And I get very emotional. I was told for a long time that my emotions make me weak. And that I'm high maintenance. So I tried very hard to fake it. But after realizing it's ok for me to just be me, and knowing Daddy loves me no matter what... *sigh* he has given me a chance to really be happy with who I truly am. And we had no idea this life style was a thing. We already had a number of dd/lg aspect happening in our relationship before I found this site online. Now we are both growing into our roles and it's really given us a way to show affection even though we are a 1000 miles apart. He picks out my meals, I color for him, he puts me to bed at night, I have my stuffies that have his after shave on them and one even has a recording of Daddy telling me I'm his life, his love, his everything.

 

Daddy protects me, some times even from myself. It's a wonderful feeling. I am very lucky.

[teddybearprotectionspell]

I recently found this About Me writing assignment I did in third grade and part of it says "To amuse myself I sometimes like to act younger than I am (4 1/2)" lol I do not recall this at all

[BlueEyesAndAll]

I think I was the opposite, actually. When I was younger I didn't really enjoy my childhood, and then I went through a very prolonged punk/goth phase where I rejected anything "fun" and took myself way too seriously, starting at like age 10. I rejected anything pink or cute. I desperately wanted to grow up and I hated being a kid, I wanted to be taken seriously and be able to live on my own. It wasn't until I was about 17-18 that I started having a resurgence of interest in "kid" things. I got really into Disney movies and cartoons, started getting more stuffies, wearing more colors (I even dyed my hair hot pink!) and being more interested in crafts and just silly things. I think in some way I regretted wasting my childhood wishing I could grow up. So now here I am!

This! Almost exactly! I remember being 9 or 10 and telling my mom I only wanted her to buy me white underwear because anything else was "too pretty to be underwear". When I was a junior and senior in high school I developed an obsession with Winnie the Pooh, started carrying a lunchbox, sleeping with stuffed animals (alright, I never stopped), keeping small toys on the dashboard of my car, wearing quarter-machine jewelry, and rereading my Babysitters Club books. I'm new to this dynamic and have been doing alot of thinking about "why" I am the way I am, and wondered out loud (text) to my Daddy just last night if I've always been like this, and now "this" just has a name.

[LittleMiss]

I've always been a Little, in every sense of the word. I have days where I'm doing a good job being an Adult but other days I am.. well, a Little and I act my age. I think what tipped me off that I was different from other girls is when I was about eleven and still playing with dolls and Barbies and my friends laughed at me. They were putting on make up, listening to the coolest CDs and learning the dances.. They were talking about boys and kissing and what they'd do when they grew up and there I was, playing with Barbies and baby dolls. The hardest choice I dealt with was what to name my new stuffie.

It increased as I got older. When I was sixteen, I no longer played with Barbies (I gave them away simply because I didn't play with them and now regret it because I would LOVE to play with them) but I had two huge stuffed animals (one I used as a giant pillow) and so many stuffies they overflowed from my hammock! I always played with kids younger than me which quite honestly made me feel creepy at first because I was CERTAIN people thought I was going to do mean stuff to them, instead of actually wanting to play dolls and watch stuff with them. (I baby sat for awhile)

Then I moved in with my Master and started playing with his nephews, a two year old and a now six year old. They absolutely adore me and actually run to hug me every time they see me.. as opposed to Masters brothers girlfriend, whom watches them and they don't even utter her name, lol.

[jellicle baby]

I always blushed at and enjoyed being teased for being little or short, even from age 3+, and I loved being spoiled and loved on. I never stopped sleeping with stuffed animals, and I never stopped loving lullaby music, and I always loved children's shows. Eventually, age 12+, I started liking boys that were older than me and I started to enjoy thinking of being taken care of forever! 

[Dumbledork'sPrincess]

I wastched kids tv programmes till I was like 12, I've never stopped sleeping with stuffies, I've always loved pink and cute stuff (except when I went through an 'emo' phase at about 13/14 years okd).

 

And just today when I got some more, cute, hair now mum said that I was going back to what I wore when I was little... lol

[Littlest_Bee]

Well, I remember that playing father, mother, child was most fun to me when I got to be the child - I was usually a bit disappointed when other kids insisted it would be better to use a doll for that.

Although there were times when I liked mothering other kids. Reading books for them or inventing stories.

My family moved a lot so I'm pretty close to my siblings and I loved playing with my little brother once he came into our family even though I had to take responsibility for him. (I was already a teenager at the time.) I never minded "missing out on parties" to take care of him.

 

I loved wearing dungarees at any age because they made me feel secure - it just got a bit harder to find them in my size the more I grew. I dreamed of going to (a modified version of) Neverland. I told one of my cousins that "coming of age" wouldn't be worth all the hassle of being an adult when I was around eight. And I also never really grew out of sleeping in bed with my stuffies. Although a lot of them were relocated until I really, really needed them. My bed was a little higher (although it wasn't a real bunk bed) It was just high enough that I could save room by pushing my desk under it. The desktop was supported through a small storing cupboard that I called my little cave. The older I got the more stuffed animals were hidden away in that special hiding place (and I still folded myself in there when I wanted to be left alone as a teen) until there was only one stuffie that was sleeping in the bed. I couldn't go to sleep without it unless I could cuddle with another person instead.

[minahbird]

I was kind of a combination of the two main responses I've seen here. I started out very childish right up to age 12-ish, because I never wanted to grow up. It probably comes from my dad's side of the family in a sense because he and his sister were named Peter and Wendy, so I had an automatic connection to the 'boy who never grew up', and I didn't want to either. I was the girl who was still playing with those toy kitchens at 10, and her doll's pram at 12. 

 

When I hit 13, I got sick, so I went from being the bubbly, bouncy girl that was swimming, skating, biking, playing with dolls, playing Polly Pocket, to being stuck indoors all the time and having to be careful what I did to make sure I didn't get worse. I didn't know why I was sick (found out a few years ago that it was ME/CFS), so there was nothing I could do except put up with it and grow up real quick.

 

Now, at 32, I watch Disney all the time, play with stuffies, colour, play with sticker books, basically whatever I can do to be little without actually regressing (my parents would never understand, and considering I live with them, I have to be careful to just be 'childish' rather than 'little' when they can see).

[Guest ☽ ᴍᴏɴᴏᴄᴇʀᴏs ☾]

I did not have much opportunity to be a child. When I was little my father was too jealous with my mother, and they spent in constant fights since I remember. I do not remember many things from my childhood because they are probably bad memories and the good ones I have just make me want to cry. In kindergarten I was bullied by my teacher, she gets angry about everything I was doing and was constantly pinching my arms. At school it was no different, children bothered me for being too thin and spent 5 years hiding in the bathroom at recess. It was completely ignored by them and at home they followed the problems, less than before at least. Then when I was 9, my brother was born. And the world of my parents began to turn into him. So I had to behave in order not to bother him, and nothing I did, my little accomplishments at school or even finally tell them that I was being bullied at school, was more important than my brother.

 

At that time, between 9 and 13 years old, I used to play dolls with my cousin, she was younger than me, but she started becoming more of a friend to my aunt, and she started to want to be a big girl and stopped play with me, and I was alone with my dolls. 

 

It was then that I began to take refuge in the anime. I saw all the series I could see. Sailor Moon, Sakura Card Captor, Corrector Yui, Inuyasha, Ranma 1/2, etc. And I started writing, creating my own characters and my own stories. Things changed when I turned 14 and they moved me to a women's school. There I met more girls who liked the anime and I did not feel so strange. I wrote in my notebooks my stories and they passed them one by one and read them. It was fun. Until 14-15 I really could feel happy with my life and with my school. But then the girls stopped being interested in my stories and in the anime, because that was "for children" and I was alone again. I sank into depression and repeated the year and then ended up retiring from school. I had a hard time getting back to school, finishing school, and overcoming a psychologically abusive relationship I had while I was ill. But stories, writing, fanfiction and books are still my most precious refuge.

[cuppycakes]

This is a cool thread and I've thought about this stuff a whole lot!!

I've noticed quite a few things about me (much of them the same as a lot of the other people, too!)

1. I used a bottle until I was 11 or 12

2. I slept in my parents bed until I was 13 because I was afraid (and I'm still a scardey cat) 

3. I played with toys until I was... too old, older than the average, but I'm not sure when.

4. I spent my 10th birthday in my room crying because I didn't want to grow up

5. In junior high (and a little bit of High School I think) I would watch preschool shows like Peep and the Big Wide World every morning before school.

6. (I'm a Rope Bunny) When I was small I would constantly volunteer to be the one tied up. If I was playing with stuffies by myself, I would tie up the stuffie that was "me" and do sort of a... fantasy dominant thing with the villain... It's kind of strange but it was fun!

7. I never grew out of most things (I mean I had phases but they never lasted long).

8. I was (and am) always up for piggy back rides and people holding me and sitting on people's laps. Also I've always loved it when people would rock me!

9. I was always called the "innocent" one. It was really annoying, especially when you're a young teenager. I just didn't like a lot of the things that teenagers liked yet, I would rather have sat at home and played with dolls and watched cartoons instead of learning dirty things and partying.

 

(❁´ω`❁) 

[Magpies]

I was watching shows on Treehouse {a preschoolers show} up until a very late age. It's very hard for me to remember the exacts though. 

I also always found myself oddly drawn to the kids play stuff as a preteen in doctor's offices and stuff. 

 

I always wanted to surround myself with toys and cute things, and I've always been into the more childish side of stuff like Halloween parties.

 

I wasn't really allowed to have much of a childhood looking back on it.
I was just inside all day playing videogames because my mother worked all the time. Rarely had sleepovers and went over to friends houses and stuff. So I guess I'm just always going to be a big kid, and that's the best~
 

[Guest Maru]

I played with baby dolls when I was a young teen. Most young teens don't. I also watched shows typically meant for younger kids. Me and my friends didn't grow up like the rest of our class. While the other girls started wearing makeup and only talking about boys, we were roleplaying as Lion King characters. But most of my childhood and teen years got buried in bullying and hatred towards myself and everyone else, along with a lot of mental struggles. Therefore I also feel like I have a lot to catch up on when it comes to childhood.

[lilpupper79]

I actually had an Ok childhood but well into high school I played with kids toys, watched kids shows and talked in a baby voice yeah everyone thought I was weird

[PrincessJasmineMoonyPie]

[HisuianLilligant]

Colouring, baby talk, buying bottles/pacifiers at like 12, wanting to be babied, etc

[suicidalkookie]

Uhm.. I'm still like that now.

Whenever my sisters friends children are over, I would watch whatever they were watching. I get so involved into what I'm watching, that I forget about my surroundings, and what's happening. If someone tried talking to me, I wouldn't usually hear them, because my focus is only on the show.

As for children toys, I always have to fight the urge to play with them. At the hospital, there's usually children toys (so children won't get bored as they wait, obviously) and I'd usually keep glancing over towards them, wanting to play with them.

I get jealous over nearly everything, I get trapped in my own little world when there's stuff for children around.

Colouring, I love colouring but it also makes me so fustrated.

But my biggest weakness is tv shows. Most of the ones you mentioned I remember watching, and I still do sometimes. (I'm pretty mad that they've changed them a bit.. My childhood is practically ruined. WHAT HAPPENED TO BOB THE BUILDER?!)

[KeeKa]

*gasp*

IT ALL MAKES SENSE

also

YOU WATCHED DOODLEBOPS TOO?!?!

i know no one who's watched the show, or at least remembers it! hehe

[PerilousRainbow]

My first memory is of telling my little brother to go upstairs because our parents were about to fight. That was the moment that set the tone for my entire childhood. I had to grow up fast and never got a standard childhood between that and being placed in the gifted program for advanced intelligence kids.

 

I was never really cuddled or told I was loved as a child so when I first began dating and got real cuddles and attention and some affection I knew I needed as much of that as I could get. I have fairly broad shoulders for a girl, my family is German Scottish and Irish so I'm pretty solid and short (5'2) so I'm attracted to taller guys who make me feel physically small. I've dated guys who aren't what I really like that I was still attracted to but sometimes it didn't feel as good because I wasn't getting cuddled right? Because they weren't big enough to basically cover all of me if they used my chest/tummy as a pillow.

 

I knew I was into some kink like biting, spanking, being tied up and made to feel like they were owning me by doing what they want (within my limits but acceptable pushing of the limits to see if I would like going past) and when I told my now Daddy about that combined with my need to be really cared about he said I should look into DDlg and I did. I found this site and just read for days before making an account and everything sounded wonderful about it, and he's been wonderful about how I'm handling getting into this.

 

Even before when I'm in a new relationship I get so nervous about sharing how I feel and negative responses and Daddy has been awesome with all the times that's come up this week. I had an outburst earlier this week that I was worried about but Daddy said it was ok and he forgave me for being as mean to him as I was (that's why I felt bad cause I could've been nicer about how I said what I needed to say) because he knows it's just how me being worried came out. And then we talked about what I was worrried about. A lot of past relationships the guy doesn't want to talk about my concerns regarding the relationship so the amount of caring Daddy shows makes me feel so much better. I don't think I'll ever be able to go back to suppressing half of my little side after this.

[AllsonClover]

When I was 14 and 15 I was still watching baby shows. They are good. I don't care what anyone says. =)

[Guest daddy's_little_shadow]

I had a stressful childhood, but child activities (coloring, reading kid's books, sleeping with stuffies, etc.) brought a lot of happiness and ease into my life back then, and I just kept it up as a coping mechanism through adolescence and adulthood. I've always been this way. It felt, still does, quite natural.

[PerilousRainbow]

I had a stressful childhood, but child activities (coloring, reading kid's books, sleeping with stuffies, etc.) brought a lot of happiness and ease into my life back then, and I just kept it up as a coping mechanism through adolescence and adulthood. I've always been this way. It felt, still does, quite natural.

This! You said it better than I could've.

[Guest Babypikagirl1914]

I used to make comfy corners next to my book case and watch cartoons for toddlers in my teens when no one was around. I also had Lot of stuffies that I would treat as my best friends. At the same time I really wanted to be independent so would enjoy time alone when my family was out, which I'd end up using as little time haha. I stole my sisters bottles when she was born too. I always felt safe around older teens who babysat me a lot. Edited June 27, 2017 by Babypikagirl1914

[Guest BabyCherine]

Edited June 27, 2017 by BabyCherine

[Radios Lavassaur]

When I was about 12 or 13 I started seeing that people didn't watch the children's shows anymore so, wanting to fit in, I stopped watching PBS Kids Toonzi and other kiddy channels and changed to Nick, Cartoon Network, and more "grown up" shows on Disney Channel. I tried to be grown up really fast. I stopped drinking chocolate and strawberry milk and switched to normal school milk, (I hated every moment) I wore more pants and shorts instead of my normal skirts and overalls, and I stopped smiling as much to seem more serious and grown up. Then when I turned 17 I was just like "F it!" and did what I wanted. I eat mac and cheese, take bubble baths, wear what I want, watch what I want, and more importantly, I don't lie to myself about who I am. Sure I have grown up moments where I'm more serious and grown up but my Little side is me just as much as the grown-up side. I won't push one down to make room for the other. I have learned to be me and I love it. 

[Guest PrincessKittenBottom]

Now that I look back I used to date this one girl who was really tomboyish and identified as a stud. She hated pink and girly stuff and because she did id playfully tease her and be like oh youd look cute in ta pink frilly dress and stuff like that. I used to picture her in my head in EXTREMELY girly clothing (cause id never seen her dress girly before) and I remember id picture her in a pink overly frilly dress (kinda like an extreme sissy dress) and then one time I pictured her in an extremely girly dress with a pacifier in her mouth like a little babygirl. It wierded me out at first but the more I pictured that image the more I was like 'oh its kinda cute'. As a joke I went out and bought her a pink baby pacifier from a dollar store (which she did not find funny). Now that I am a little I look back on those memories and think..yeah...this was bound to happen lol. Plus I was a tomboy in my childhood. I didn't want to watch Disney and like the colr pink and stuff cause that's what every little girl liked and I didn't want to be the stereotypical little girl. So I denied myself the girly pleasures of life when I was younger. No wonder I am the way I am now <3