The desire to feel safe and protected, so you can let go of your socially instilled adult poopy pressures, is actually pretty universal.
"Perception" of the activities is the only thing that makes someone fear being a Little or having Little playtime.
" What will people think of me if they see me coloring, or playing in a blanket fort?"
" Talking in child voice isn't something a grown person should do! "
Ohhhhhhhh....but it's perfectly ok for millions of people to jump and cheer and throw chips and beer at the TV while grown men and women are running around on a field, banging into each other to chase a ball??
Or, pay money to see "actors" play cops and robbers in movies and plays???
Rrrrrrrrright....lol
We all play.
We all use activities, games/sports, travel and hobbies to distract us from the responsibilities
we surround ourselves with.
We all need to let go so we can heal and regenerate.
It's part of our physiology.
We are one of the only creatures on this planet who continually engages our sympathetic nervous system (fight or flight response) by continually thinking about our problems or potential problems.
That system is only meant to give our muscles a quick burst to get out of danger in the wild when a crocodile or some predator is trying to make snackies out of our butts.
By having stress and worry in our life, that system is working constantly and engaging our muscles to the point of chronic pain and health issues.
We need to "play" because for many it's the only way to distract our thinking from the worry that engages that stress response and lets us get us back to our Para-sympathetic state (resting, healing).
Our best, natural state of play...for many was stolen from us back when we were kids.
When we played as young children, that was the most free alive time in our lives.
We had the least amount of social pressure, prejudice , body image issues and intolerance for others.
It was an amazing time of creativity, silliness and discovery.
We could be a pirate, or a zebra in a zoo.
We could draw a picture of a horse that looked like a blob and nobody judged us for not being perfect.
THEN...someone told us "YOU CAN'T DO THAT!...ACT YOUR AGE!...STOP BEING A BABY!!...GROW UP!" and our career as a free spirit ended, and shame and guilt became a motivator in changing our behavior to how other adults thought we should act.
Adults who most likely had someone else stop their free spirit, and thus are programmed to think it's healthy to cut off "childish games" at a certain age.
Some of us never even got a little bit of play as a child, due to deaths, and divorces, poverty and poor environments etc., where you had to grow up quicker to survive or care for other siblings.
Well...I'm an adult...and I say POPPYCOCK!!! BULLOCKS!!! and BULLPOOP!!
You can have a creative childhood RIGHT NOW!
You don't need permission from other adults to take breaks from your grown up responsibilities in a way that makes you happy.
You absolutely can give yourself permission to identify with that state of being that is innocent and centering.
Please understand that no one can shame or judge you for pretending to be that young child, if you take away their emotional power to do so.
Some people have Little play in their lives only for a while to make peace with having it taken from them.
Some it is more regular and have Mommy/Daddy - boy/girl relationships.
You can act any age you want when you play, and you
don't have to color in the lines if you darn well don't want to!
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Count Boogie
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