CW: Discussion of Infantilization (Not Kink, more like munchausen-by-proxy syndrome). WELP.

This is why I haven't gotten to meet any of you people!
And why my planning on getting to CrossingsCon has been so slow.

A lot of this is driven by circumstance (there's an actual Insurance reason why I have my permit but not a license yet), but the results still line up pretty neatly with my life.

oh hello this is how i grew up

I strongly suspect that a friend of mine in high school was at least low-key having this happen to them

like, they legitimately thought and acted very young for their age. Like, baby-talking to express their emotions, as a high school junior

Ouch. D=

and their parents were obsessively over-protective. calling every five minutes whenever they weren't home, always packing lunches for them, they even tried to talk to me like I was a kid one time at their birthday dinner

Did the parents go through something traumatic???

no idea