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My Story
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Infantilist's Declaration of Independence From Ignorance
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The
History of This Web-Site
(Last updated May,
2004)
I first posted this website
to its current free GeoCities home in August of 1997 in the hopes
of seeing if there might be any other infantilists out there
who might have been uncomfortable with the seemingly unchecked
levels of fantasy that it then appeared that all other infantilists
were advocating on the web. In October of 1997 I added
another feature to the site, the Infantilist Support Club Forum.
This feature quickly became the most popular feature of
the site.
In December of that year,
it soon became clear to me that the amount of free-time I had
available to administer the site had almost diminished to zero.
At about that same time, one forum participant, Kathy S. (of
www.toddlertime.com) noticed that I
wasn't paying enough attention to the site, and volunteered to
step in to keep it afloat. For the next four and a half years,
not only did Kathy administer this website, but she also added
the "Sister-Forum", which eventually evolved into what
is now the SO
Support Forum.
The evolution and history
of this "Sister-Forum" is worthy of note. That forum
was originally intended to be a forum for those infantilists
who had decided they were what are called Full-Stop
infantilists (see definition ). In other words, infantilists
who were determined to "kick the habit" completely
some day. For reasons of which I am not entirely clear, it seems
that the Full-Stop approach to infantilism didn't
do as well in generating an ongoing discussion as the Balancer
philosophy (see definition ), the philosophy generally
followed in the Infantilist
Support Club Forum. This may change some day,
who knows.
In 1999 Kathi also ran out
of enough free-time and closed down the Infantilist Support Club
Forum, while she continued to maintain both this website, as
well as the "Sister-Forum". In April of 2002, I found
that my schedule was again allowing me enough time to again do
more, in addition to taking over this website back from Kathy,
I then also restarted the Support Club Forum. Kathy continued
taking responsibility for the "Sister-Forum", as she
does with my gratitude to this day.
In January of 2004, the decision
was made to add a link to the Overcoming Infantilism Support
Forum to the Contacts page. The addition of
this link to the site generated considerable controversy, and
even caused some long-standing and long valued supporters of
this site to leave with a sense of disappointment. This
controversy was due to the fact the the Overcoming Infantilism
Support Forum takes a strictly Christian Evangelical approach
as to how to supposedly Overcome Infantilism. This type
of approach is seen by the majority of the participants in the
Infantilist Support Club Forum to possibly be a psychologically
unhealthy and counterproductive way of temporarily achieving
external control, while still failing to achieve any kind of
inner peace or harmony with this situation, instead only intensifying
the inner struggle.
In May of 2004, for personal
reasons, Kathi S. handed over the administration of the SO
Support Forum to myself. The SO Support Forum
is currently in the process of being restructured into a format
that is hoped to further enhance its abilities to meet the needs
of the SO participants of this forum. Currently this restructuring
includes the appointment of two new (but long acquainted) SO
sysops for the SO Support Forum, a new SO Forum Posting Agreement
Page, plus certain new posting restrictions for Non SO's who
might wish to post there. All of these arrangements have been
arrived at after close consultation with both Kathi, and with
the SO participants of that Forum. This very new structure
for the SO Support Forum is naturally tentative, and will be
closely monitored for possible additional improvements as may
be needed over the upcoming months.
I hope you might find the
information found in this site and in its Forums to be of value.
I must confess, my motives for setting up this site have been
entirely selfish. I have wanted to find out more about myself.
In the process, I thank each person who has contributed to the
entries of the Forums, and also to the newer sections of the
site. May you too find out more about yourselves, as we all work
towards finding a greater peace and harmony in our lives and
in the world around us.
Sincerely,
Scott P.
Webmaster
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