Am I wrong for calling him a pedophile?

[Anonymous]

There’s this guy that has a whole family. But he dresses like a baby and puts on baby powder. Talks and acts like a toddler. He doesn’t have any kind of mental disabilities. He literally just roleplay a as toddler. I called him sick because you’re 30 years old doing this. I even asked if he’s a pedophile and his followers got mad saying it’s for entertainment purposes dressing like a child and acting like a toddler isn’t entertaining it’s disgusting. And, they also say I went too far suggesting he maybe a pedophile. If I seen a grown ass man doing this shit in public of course I’m going to assume he is. Then they’re like toddlers aren’t attracted to each other at that age. When I was a toddler I definitely had a boyfriend at 4. They’re trying to make bullshit excuses for a sicko.

[Ez-Bri-Z_v2]

It really depends on a few things. There are some people called infantalists or abdl who are into dressing like babies or toddlers but it's not a sexual thing for them. For some of them it's just an age regression form of therapy. It's odd to the rest of us but they are harmless.

I worry about the ones who do find it to be sexual though because it's a fine line between a fetish for the paraphernalia and being attracted to kids themselves and role-playing that. It's sort of similar to guys who want their girlfriends/wives to dress up like a high school cheerleader just more extreme in my opinion.

[BoopBoopBeep]

That pathology has virtually no overlap with the pathology of pedophilia. Right/wrong morally, whatever, it's a pretty crappy diagnosis. He may BE a pedophile, but not because of any of the demonstrated behavior in this narrative.

[Asker]

Yea that’s why I asked him. People in the comments agreed with me for asking. People are crazy nowadays you have to protect your kids. I just think any grown adult pretending to be a baby is just straight up weird and it definitely has pedophilic and grooming tendencies. There’s this one girl that pretends to be a toddler for her boyfriend and he likes it. How is that not weird?

[abc3643]

Yes, because he's not a pedophile.
He has fantasies of being a baby.
This is a common fantasy with a couple.

[zebronics]

This is a new trande like transracial, transable, now people are identifying themselves with age, like a grown up adult male is saying I am a kid, treat me as a baby, I need a baby, ofcourse this is sickness.🌱

[Asker]

I didn’t know that was a thing. That’s sick af.

[Astarlessnightsky]

Yes. The guy is an ageplayer, not a pedophile.