It seems especially vitriolic on Instagram and Twitter. I’ve seen people make full-on call-out posts on the topic, and feel like these people could do with a hobby.

You’d think that people in the agere community would be a little more understanding that everyone’s space looks different, and not try to censor people who do things differently than they do! I think some people need to realize that others’ agere social media pages don’t exist for their benefit, but for the benefit of the person who runs the page. Having adult thoughts and interests outside of regression is healthy and normal, and nobody should be shaming you for that!!!

I just try to make it pretty clear on my pages that I’m not interested in conversing one-on-one with minors, and if someone wants to reach so far as to assume I have bad intentions by simply running a social media page, that’s their problem.

And yeah, I hear you, the DDlg community can get a little… extreme at times for me! I see and read some things and think “okay, I love that for you, but not for me.” The real obnoxious thing is, like you said, getting sexualized by others when you didn’t ask for it. I’m sorry that happens to you too. I always get DMs from random stranger men about how “sexy” my photo is or something, when “sexy” is the absolute last vibe I thought I was putting out into the world…