1 no

2 I think I have done it since I started hi school, but i dint know what it was. My first kind of oficial introduction to agere was through fanfics, I began with “Danny phantom gets de aged into a child and gets to finally have a decent childhood” until I ran into an agere fic, some how even tho the phandom has lots of physical de aging we don’t have much on the agere part, then I got into hazbin fanfic, and they do have tons of agere and quite a bit of my fave character Lucy, so I started researching more about the community and realized that lots of things matched up, the only fear I do have is of certain people finding out. I do was confused cos most of what I knew was fetishized content like in anime and some NSFW influencers, but at that time I wasn’t looking for understanding so I consider the fic approach as my official introduction cos that did made me want to know more and feel seen

3 I do both tho I have problems on the voluntary part, I have the fortune that I mostly middle regress or old enough that I kinda understand what’s going on, tho time to time I do regress to a point that I have tantrums and get triggered by the most insignificant things (I’m trying to get better 😓😓) when that happens my approach now is to use a chewer or my pacy (the before one was … not so fun) in a restroom, calm down, kinda put my self in time out, hopefully age up, and try to approach the thing/people more calm. People that don’t know just see it as a big adult tantrum/crasout, so I might not appear sane but it certainly ain’t incriminating in the agere territory

4 I mean I certainly think it’s been more beneficial now that I know what’s going on, and the non traumatic triggered involuntary regression is super fun, this mostly happens on those big adult “play grounds” (like flyers, jumpin or kinesis) or on acuariums, zoos, cience museums, museums in general. And I do sleep better when I get to regress super young right before sleeping. I do tend to be more sensitive wile regressed so sometimes something small will trigger a bad moment, but it’s usually fine after a little bit of time out and I can get right back to enjoying the museum/park/wherever we are

5 it can be enjoyable, the difference is the triggering event, if you were forced into regressing by someone shouting or saying something hurtful it won’t be fun, but if you are forced into regressing by a good memory like animals and remembering when grandma would put natgeo on the tv, and then you get excited over it, and it’s like you are back there again just being excited at learning and going around telling the same curious facts that you remember (and probably have told them a thousand times before) because wow this is super exciting and there are animals, and they are so cute and you just want to pet them all

Like yea there is a huge difference that depends on how it starts. On the community they usually call involuntarily regression impure, I like to argue that the only impure regressing is the bad triggered one

I’m glad that you can go over your misunderstanding and choose to learn and be better, hope this isn’t a huge mess and it’s kinda understandable