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Author: oshojabbe

Jul 17th 2016 at 10:26:26 PM

I feel like this has some overlap with EmotionalRegression. I think the distinction should be something like:

* EmotionalRegression is when someone starts acting immature due to circumstances that remind them of their youth. It's Revertigo from How I Met Your Mother.
* RegressToChildhood is where a person reverts to their childhood self. Usually as a form of amnesia, magic, multiple personalities, etc.

I think the following entries from the EmotionalRegression page probably properly belong in RegressToChildhood:

* The main premise of ''Anime/NanakaSixSeventeen'' involves the title character hitting her head and then waking up with the mental age of a seven-year old.
* Happen in one episode of ''Manga/SketDance''. In the episode, [[MainCharacter Bossun]] got his body [[FountainOfYouth reverted back to a five year old's]] after drinking [[MadScientist Chuuma-sensei's]] potion. At the end of the episode, Chuuma-sensei made another potion that returned his body to normal... but now it's his mind that reverted to a five year old's.
* In ''Anime/{{Hamatora}}'', Honey has the power to see ten minutes into the future after biting down on a lollipop. For much of the series she can use this power without repercussion but later her ability develops a side effect that causes her to mentally regress to childhood for a time after her power runs its course.
* An extreme example in the ''Series/UnitedStatesOfTara'', one of Tara's "alter egos" is called Gimme ("give me")--an animalistic, greedy, flighty child-like version of Tara that comes out any time she feels emotionally cornered/blackmailed. It does such immature things as scream like a baby, or pee on her sleeping parents. There's also "T", the teenager alter ego, who does things like [[{{Squick}} make out with her (gay) son's date.]]

Some additional examples for this are:

* In ''Series/HoneyIShrunkTheKids'', a power outage causes the Memory Lane Mobile to regress Diane to her 16 year old self. She goes to school with her daughter, and has to relearn enough law (under the guise of it being a school project) to get her most recent client exonerated.
* In ''Series/Charmed'', this happens a few times.
** In one episode, the Charmed sisters are regressed to their teenage selves when Grams botches a spell meant to remove the sibling rivalry from her grandchildren.
** In one episode, Prue's wish on a genie for the thrills of first love revert her to her 17 year old persona.
** In one episode, Pheobe accidentally casts a spells when she reads a poem from her yearbook. This causes her to revert back to her teenage self. She later regresses everyone else at her 10 year high school reunion as well.
** In one episode, Prue and Pheobe are sprinkled with fairy dust which regresses them back to a child-like state - innocent enough to see fairies again.