(time lapse) photo project
- (AP FF)
heebie-geebie: "My parents videotaped me and my brothers every 3 months, wearing the same type of outfit, standing against the same wall, for 24 years - (my brother was born in '71, until I graduated high school in '95). After I graduated, they spliced it all together, so that they have us growing up in time-lapse photography. It's set to honky-tonk music. It's a wee bit embarrassing, too. There's several awkward years where I'm just standing there...in my leotard..."
mrh: "Also, you have to keep buying new leotards as they grow up."
heebie-geebie: No, leotards can just stretch unflatteringly as you "blossom".
- (AP FF suggestions)
Youtube comments made about adult face close-up time lapse project:
I knew someone who took a picture of their child every day from the day she was born to her wedding day. Talk about weird.
It would only be "changing" if you took a pic of a growing kid each day, rather than an adult. Now THAT would be interesting. It would have been best if this was done with a child, and you could see the kid grow up.. cuz overall.. adults don't change very much
It would be really cool if someone did this their whole life from the day they were born
Try this concept with a child. I think you'll get better results. Then again I take that back because of pervs...you know what...this is really sick...haha
It would be cooler if it were like a 12 year old girl or boy and you can see them mature or something
Interesting concept. Might be a good idea with children to see how they grow and change, as you can't really see much ageing or development clearly here, other than the change of hair etc.
You definitely should continue to do this, do it with all your children and pets as well. That would make a good horror film. It would be better with smaller kids (though they'd have to keep the same expression) cos they would change more. Nice though!
Yeah, she doesnt change, but still nice. It could be much better if she was younger, like 8-13 yrs kids change their appearance a lot
Yeah I was just thinking that, on a bigger scale from about 10-22 when you change from a child toa fully grown adult, I'd love to see the change, as I think it'd suddenly kick in
There was this guy in England who did that when his daughter was first born till her 3rd birthday it was soo coool to see how much she had changed!!
I took a photo of my 4 yr old every tuesday since the day she was born. I plan to put together a video similar to this when she is about 20. I hope she thinks it's as special as I do.
That is cool. Would love to see a sample over even more time so you can really see how age sets in. Some teen should do this b/c you change so much more physically at that age.
I love it, great idea. Once seen a series of pictures of a little girl wearing the same (at first very much oversized) dress. Her mother took the pics every year at her birthday from age 3 or so until she was 16. Was fun too.
I did something a bit like this, a picture of me every month from when i was 13 until when I was 16 - it was rather cool but im not putting it up on Youtube because I looked awful back then! lol anyway yeh very kwl, like the music too!

Age Regression Story Archive
(AR, AP) n. Website started on 2/27/97 by Heidegger as the first repository for Age Regression stories, info, images and other media. Earlier, a number of AR stories were posted on defunct Transformation Story Archive. Site also has age progression content, primarily age swaps and regressed persons returning to normal. Site contains more than 261 stories by dozens of regular authors, 100's of photo-stories, a continuous story, 1000's of images, chat and message forums. Common themes include magical artifacts, wish fulfillment, youth serums, age changing devices, loose clothing, revenge fantasy, humiliation, lost coordination and balance, schooling, sibling rivalry, role reversal, makeup, status, authority, language skills, spanking, breast feeding, etc.
Often, a character becomes so young he or she loses strength and reasoning faculties. Alternatively, an elderly person can be restored to full vigor. Many stories focus on adults returned to babies, who lose their independence, have to wear diapers, and ultimately forget who they were, as they return to innocence of youth.
Within a year, the ARarchive was followed by 2 Be Young Again and original Fountain Of Youth site (deleted). By 1999, The Process and Turn Back The Clock had AR content. Many sites followed in years since.

16 to 18
(AA) Young adult to more mature adult, make-over. Very common age-related transformation in which artist wishes to depict character's increased maturity without growth. For example, frumpy high school student becomes powerful woman of the same height with heavy makeup and skimpy costume. Sometimes the bust is drawn larger.

2 Be Young Again
(AR, AP) Website started on 1/27/98 by JeffR as a place to host and trade AR/AP materials. Contains by far the largest and most complete AR database on the web (also significant AP content). Became the home of a large (and for some months the only) AR story collection, and a media service.

AA
Abbr. for "Age-Appropriate Clothing". When a person ages and their clothes grow along with them.

AB
Abbr. for "Adult Baby". Adult man dressing as baby.

aftermath caption
(APed) One of many AP-related story genres, focusing on the immediate aftermath of an age progression transformation. Photographs of adult entertainers in erotic poses, often removing flimsy negligees or wearing tiny lingerie shirts, are combined with a short AP story describing a sudden growth spurt from a young girl into an adult woman. Common themes include aging potions and age changing devices, which the girls were warned to stay away from. It is not uncommon for the newly aged women to wish to explore their sexuality. Somewhat similar to AR caption stories.

age cut
(flash forward) Tv Trope. A type of Match Cut that shows a character aging. Often, different actors are used for the young and old version of the character. By showing both in the same position and location, it is shown that it is the same person, only older. Common version starts with a slow zoom in on a character's eyes, which then cuts to the older version and zooms out. Another is to dissolve from one version to another. The same technique can be used to start a flashback, in which case the character gets younger. Ex: the ending of Kung Fu Hustle. (TvTropes)
- (AP FF AA) age cut

age disguise
(kinda like aped) Any attempt to pass for older or younger than one really is. male

age dream
- (AP) In the liquor store, the 9 year-old girl ahead of me pouts at the clerk who wants to see her I.D. She suddenly grows up and pulls coins - one at a time - from her wallet until finally there is enough to pay for her bottle of hooch.
- (male AP UC) I woke up as an adult Harry Potter, with uncomfortably tight kids pajamas. After looking in the mirror and realizing that I was "big" I also realized that the actor playing the part of the adult Harry Potter was Stephen Colbert. Then I believe there was the basic parents flipping out, who the fuck are you, and so on. I convinced my mom to take a DNA test to prove that I was her son.

age dream
- (AP/AR) Dream in which a character's age changes.
Growing Girl: "I sit the little girl on my lap. She is about 2, wearing a white nappy under her clothes. As she sits there, she grows. In the space of a few seconds, she is 9 years old. She is wearing grey tracksuit trousers and a pink top. I help her down and she's still growing."
"One night I dreamed that I was trying to nurse my baby when she suddenly turned into a grown woman . She squirmed out of my arms and yelled, 'This isn't working and I am hungry!' She quickly grabbed a gallon of milk and guzzled it down. I awoke horrified!"
- (AP, AR) Group of kid orphans in the care of an old hag are playing in backyard. Old hag goes on a rampage and destroys the whole game. At this point everyone is no longer a child but an adult, wearing glitter and torn children's clothes that look very skimpy on their fit-looking hairless adult bodies. People are trying to make gloves out of their now tattered creations. Everyone seems full of disbelief and about to cry. Old hag changed into a small darker-skinned girl when we all changed into adults.

age dream
- (APed ARed AA) Will Ferrell and I go into the lounge, and meet up with my friend Megan and some of her super hot friends, who were hanging out with Lindsay Lohan. They were all wearing these way sexy black dresses and stuff designed to attract men. Of course I got super nervous and shy and had to walk away from Will and all of them to catch my breath before rejoining the conversation. We decide that the day is over, and it's time for everyone to take off. When I tell them that I'm leaving, Lindsay responds "OH! Well I'm coming with you." So we take off for my car and were talking about something I don't remember, but the weird thing is that she keeps changing age as we are talking. One second she's my age and then the next she's morphed into this little girl with braces and then into a grown woman and back all over the place. It's hard to keep the conversation going cause a topic brought up by a mature Lindsay would be followed by a comment like "well I still have my braces so..." For some reason I had the feeling that she had maybe been abused in the past. Looking at her was really super weird cause her appearance kept changing faster and faster. I assumed that even though it looked as if she was changing age, that her true age remained constant. The dream ended when we got to my car and she looked at me in a way that suggested she somehow trusted me. (Justin)

age fabrication
(age disguise AA) When an individual deliberately misrepresents his or her age, usually to garner privileges or status not otherwise available. For example, in Hollywood it was extremely common for actresses to subtract years from their actual age.

age mirror
(AP FF illusion) Trope. Person imagines seeing themselves older or younger in mirror. AA APed

age play
Noun. Play that involves taking on the role of someone of a different age. Most commonly, adults take on the role of children, perhaps in a submissive capacity. See also daddy/boy, infantilism. Younger people may also take on the role of older people.

age stasis
- (AS) Person who does not age. Legendary situation of individuals who stay the same age (can be child or adult) indefinitely.
- AS - 2

ageshifter
(AP, AR, CB, UC) n. AKA Age Shifter. Person who can/does change ages. In fiction: Kuruma Chidori, in Ayashi no Ceres manga can make herself go from 9 to 16 at will.
- (AP/AR) 1

Aka-Chan Pure
(infantilization) "Baby Play" Japanese expression. 'aka-chan' is the default name of any baby whose name you haven't learned yet. Supposedly, this fetish originated thusly: Stressed out businessmen like to relieve some of their tension by going back to the "baby days" when they had no responsibility and could depend on Mommy to take care of everything, soggy diapers and all.

Alice in Wonderland syndrome
(self/others shrunk illusion) AKA: AIWS, micropsia, Lilliput sight.
Neurological condition which affects sight, hearing, touch, and sometimes one's own body image. Subjects perceive humans, parts of humans, animals, and inanimate objects as substantially smaller than in reality. They can appear far away and extremely close at the same time. A dog may appear the size of a mouse, or a normal car may look shrunk to scale. Small children form a large proportion of those afflicted. Can be caused by mononucleosis, complex partial epilepsy, or psychoactive drugs such as dextromethorphan.

ambiguous clothing change
(AA) Extremely common tendency in all media to ignore or hide what happens to clothing when a person transforms to another form or age, and the clothes don't change with them; especially in children's programming. Sometimes the clothes appear to fade into the transforming body, as in morphing effects. In Teen Titans, Beast Boy transformed out of a humiliating bunny suit, but the clothes bursting was concealed.
Example link: male deer TF

Androxi Effect
(AA) 1) Tendency in Japanese anime/manga not to show what happened to shoes after child suddenly aged into adult. Ex: Asatte no Houkou 2) Tendency in same of shoes to grow/stretch with when person suddenly ages into adult. Examples: Magical Melmo, Sasami in "Baby Sammy", Hinako Ninomiya, etc.

anime
(AP, AR) Japanese animation / cartoons. Feature many transformations, including age changes.

anthropometry
(growth FF) Measurement of the human body, also growth studies. 1
- (growth) Medical photography of growth stages. height comparison

AP
Abbr. for Age Progression. Person rapidly becomes older. There are 5 kinds: 1) Girl to woman. 2) Boy to man. 3) Short men admiring giant teens. 4) Young woman to old woman. 5) Young man to old man. 1
- AP Image Archive 2
Girl in blue dress instantly grows up and out of her shoes. fan art animation - AP

AR Abbr. for Age Regression. Person is made younger. It can happen fast or take a long time. AR - male AR
- AR Image Archive 1
- AR Image Archive 2

ArArchive
- AKA "AR Archive" see: Age Regression Story Archive

autonepiophilia
(ARed wish) Paraphilia. The desire to be an infant.

autopedophilia
(ARed wish) Paraphilia. The desire to be prepubescent.

auxology
- (AP) The study of human growth. 1
- Female AP:
- (AP) Medical photography of the growth process. More sequences are urgently needed. teen AP
- From The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Growth and Development: blurry AP - male (very blurry)
- (AP FF) Medical photography of the growth process. 5

BE
Abbr. for "Breast Expansion".
1) Admiration of porn stars with large breast implants. 2) When the breasts suddenly grow larger.
- BE scene (fake)

birthday effect
(coming of age confusion, AP beliefs) Phrase. Young children are sometimes confused about how fast they grow up, if it happens in stages, and if they can influence or reverse the process. Jodie Foster jokes: "Charles, the older one, [...] has only seen me in these after-school children specials, which they show on TV. These were movies I made when I was a little girl. So when I say I'm in a movie, he asks: 'Were you a little girl?' He thinks when I go to work, I transform myself into a little girl." Indeed, he will be able to do what few children can: Watch his mother grow up on screen - from the time she appeared butt-naked in Coppertone advertisements at the age of 3, to the Disney pictures and sitcoms she made in her preteen years, to the Lolita-like prostitute role in Taxi Driver that struck a raw chord in audiences and earned her an Oscar nomination at the age of 14.
- I used to think that growing up happened overnight. That I would 1 night go to bed and wake up a grown woman. I would pray when I went to bed that the next day I could be a grown-up and start my grown-up life! (Lil Nicki)
- I used to believe that one day I would just wake up a teenager. I would have physically grown up and matured over night. The thing that worried me the most was, what would I wear when this happened until I could go shopping for bigger clothes? (Shirin)

body elongation
2002, Jacques Kitsch. "My mom did yoga things, like I'd come into the kitchen to find her doing a handstand with her legs behind her head. She could somehow discouple her leg joints from her hips and make herself about 6" taller."

body swap
Mind Transfer. 2 persons exchange souls. Their bodies do not change.

breast ironing
(attempted body modification) Aid agencies started a campaign in Cameroon to stop the widespread practice of massaging and flattening the growing breasts of young girls with hot objects. Many girls in the African country undergo the practice to make girls seem less "developed" in hopes of staving off sexual assaults from men. Mothers do this to their daughters in order to "protect" them. Unfortunately, flattening a girl's breasts isn't an effective method of birth control.

CB
Abbr. for "Clothes Burst or Rip". Person ages so much in a short time that their clothes burst.
- CB Image Archive 2
- gif anim
- buttons pop gif anim

chibi
(kinda like ARed AA, not TF) Common anime/manga trope. Adult characters are briefly drawn in a more childlike state to symbolize their confusion or vulnerability. - 1

chronokinesis
The ability to mentally affect the flow of time. Examples: Tempus and The Avatars in Charmed, Illyria in Angel. (jeff2beyoung)

cratophilia
(bio power) Paraphilia. Sexual attraction to any form of strength.

Dawson Casting
(kinda like age anomaly, casting/continuity error) Tv trope/idiom. High school students in television look nothing like high school students in real life: they're played by actors up to 30 years old for legal and practical reasons. Real teen actors are described as looking too young. 33-year-old Stockard Channing played 17-year-old Rizzo in Grease. 16-year-old Judy Garland was cast as 11-year-old Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz. James Van Der Beek (20), Joshua Jackson (19), and Katie Holmes (18), who described how they just got adult genitalia in the 1998 Dawson's Creek pilot, played 15-year-olds.

de-aging story
(AR) Common plot device in Fan Fics.

de-SORAS
(retcon continuity change kinda looks like rejuvenation) Fan term about a plot change that occurs when writers decide to make a character younger without explaining the physical alteration.

door growth
(FF) A method to measure children by standing them against a door or wall at regular intervals, and making a permanent mark to record their growth. male

expandism
Fetish for size increase of creatures or objects.

fan art
(ARed, APed) Fan-created images of mostly fictional characters. May be shown at different ages. AR - AR (Process Forum)

fast forward
(AA) The character's aging or growth is shown by means of a blurry fade representing the rapid passage of time.

flash forward
(AA) AKA FF. The same individual shown at successive points in time to visualize normal aging process. male

Fregoli Delusion
(TFed, slight age changes) Rare disorder in which someone holds delusional belief that different people are in fact a single person who changes appearance or is in disguise. Named after Italian actor Leopoldo Fregoli who was renowned for his ability to make quick changes of appearance during stage act. First reported in 1927 in case of 27 year old woman who believed that she was being persecuted by 2 actors whom she often went to see at the theatre. She believed that these people "pursued her closely, taking the form of people she knows or meets."

furry
Creatures that appear part animal and part human, or mostly men who wish they were such beings.

gerokinesis
(age shifts) Fan fiction power for evolved humans not derived from canon: the ability to manipulate age. With this power, you can shapeshift yourself or others into older or younger versions. Unlike chronokinesis, the ability to manipulate time, it only targets the time fields around biotic matter. While the chosen subject is shifted, he gains the characteristics of that age group, so a person could realistically gain the stamina of a child, have the ambition, strength and logic of a middle-aged person, or the wisdom and patience of older age. One could even age the desired subject to be too young or too old to defend themselves. Persons can only shift to differently-aged versions of themselves. If an opponent is good at identifying faces or discernment, this power is nearly useless.

Glam Of Shazam
(AP AA) Tv Trope seen in Magical Girl (AKA Magical Idol) genre, and some male comics heroes. Character has the ability to turn into a noticeably older counterpart of themselves. Often a type of wish fulfillment.
(tvtropes.com)

growth spurt
- (AP) Kids go up and down the percentile charts, shooting up several inches in a short time, then growing very little for a long time. Just keep track of the clothes they outgrow. My daughter didn't really grow at all between ages 8 1/2 and 10 1/2. She literally went almost two years without growing an inch or gaining a pound. On Nov. 1, she woke up, and was 1 inch taller than she'd been the night before. She grew another half inch before we could measure her. Since last week, she's grown at least another half inch, probably closer to an inch. She did at least 1/2 inch between breakfast and dinner time on Sunday. I know, because she went from being at "just under chin height" to "if I lean forward, my chin bonks her" height. In the 6 months prior to that, she gained 5 inches and 10-15 pounds. That's just how she does it.
At birth, she was 7 lbs 11 1/2 oz. At 2 weeks, 9 pounds. At 4 months, 20 pounds. We joked about how she would be the first 150 pound, 6 foot tall 3-year old. When she was 6 months old, she was 24 pounds. By 1 yr, she was 26 pounds. Right before she turned two, she was 27 pounds. Then she put on 3 pounds in 3 weeks and the Dr. lectured me her height and weight were not proportional. A few weeks later she grew a couple inches!
At the moment, she's getting "spindly" around the middle. When she was 8, she was slightly padded before her last growth spurt. Right now, it doesn't seem to matter how much she eats, it all goes UP. She's skinnier, proportionally, than she's ever been. (Mom)
- (AP) Yesterday (2004) Truley woke up and felt taller. After standing by Granny, everyone thought she was. They measured her, and sure enough, she's convinced everyone that she grew 2 inches during her sleep the night before her 16th birthday.

growth spurt
- (AP) Sudden rapid size increases in children. Daily length measurements of a male infant first proved the existence of growth spurts. Despite much anecdotal evidence and the convictions of many parents, biologists had not generally recognized the reality of short, sharp growth bursts on the order of 1 centimeter in a single 24 hour period. Rather, the consensus was that child growth was divided into three stages (infancy, childhood, adolescence), characterized by different, but steady rates of growth. However, when children were measured more often (weekly or daily), the growth curve was seen to be step-like rather than smooth. Indeed, the mean amplitude of the growth spurts was found to be about 1 centimeter; and the duration of the spurts, about one day. These spurts punctuated long intervals of no growth. In infants, for example, 90-95% of their development is growth-free! (Lampl "Saltation and Stasis: A Model of Human Growth")
- 5'9" Landi Swanepoel described her sudden breast development: "I was about 16 and they were just there," Landi says. "One day I woke up and I was like 'oh my god!'"

growth spurt
- (FF) My daughter went from 4'6" to 5'8" in 16 months, from age 13 into early 14. We knew she was going to grow because her feet were way too large for her size. On a bike, she looked like feet peddling down the street before the growth started. One season of softball she was slow getting out of the batter's box because her coordination had not caught up. Once she got moving she was fast. At age 15 she's 5'9 1/2".
- (FF) My daughter is 12 1/2 now, and 5'5", 120 lbs. She gets her growth spurt every summer and during Christmas break. Usually about 3-4"! I watch her feet, they have finally slowed down in growth (size 11!) so I figure she'll be done growing in 2 years time. Estimate between 5'9" and 5'10".

GTS
- (adult growth) Fetish films - Very slight CB
- Abbr. for Giantess.
1) A normal woman as seen by a shrunken man. 2) Crushing or inserting shrunken men in body cavity. 3) A giant woman. May or may not involve growth.
- (AA) In most giantess stories or depictions the woman's clothes either grew with her, or were designed to fit her larger size. AA

height comparison
- (growth) Common Tv Trope or plot device. 1) Persons of different height pose together, for example tall woman and shorter man. 2) Young teen boy finds same-age crush is much taller than him, because girls grow up faster than boys. ("Big", "Even Stevens") 1
- (ages and stages) grown women - girl/woman

height illusion
- (looks like growing or shrinking) Background can make people look different sizes, possibly older or younger. 1
- (looks like size change) 2

hentai
(occasional AP, AR) Japanese erotic manga and anime.

IB
Abbr. for "Innocent Bystander". Passerby is caught up in AR/AP incident and suddenly aged or regressed against their will.

liminality
(flash forward) A threshold in time, where one condition changes into another. The moment at which a young girl becomes a teen, or a teen becomes a woman. Also when a regressing character can suddenly no longer pass as an adult, and loses privileges.

lineup
- (AP) AKA line-up.
An arrangement of items or persons on a line, to show changes between them. A way to depict the growth process in stages. AKA progression, series, sequence, ...
- AP: AP - AP - AP - AP - AP - AP - AP - AP - AP - AP - AP - AP - AP - AP - AP - AP - AP
- mixed: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
- male: male - male - male - male - male - male - male - male
- clips: AP - AP
(Process)

lineup
(FF AP) 51
mixed - mixed
male - male
female

lineup
(FF AP)
- AP - AP - Flash Forward - AP
Series of separate drawings found at Stockphoto.com, possibly created for other purpose. Same girl is shown at age 2, age 5, age 10, age 13, and age 20:
- AP FF AA scene
- male - mixed
- AP - AP

Loathly Lady
(old aged disguised, ARed to young adult)
Common literary device used in medieval literature and Celtic mythology. A hideous woman bargains with a man to kiss or marry her, sometimes for the answer to a question on a quest. He complies, but is personally disgusted and publically embarassed by his ancient and ugly bride. When he cannot bring himself to sleep with her, the lady reproaches him, and asks him to make a decision. When he makes the right choice, she transforms into a beautiful young form. See examples in story section. - 1

manga
(AP, AR) Japanese comic books, strips, or graphic novels. Feature many transformations, including age changes.

manhua
Chinese language manga/anime mostly produced in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Occasionally contains AR, AP.

manhwa
Mostly South Korean manga, print cartoons, and animation. Occasionally contains AR, AP.

MC
Abbr. for "Mental Change". Person's mind and personality is made older or younger. However, their body does not change.

Merlin Sickness
(reverse lifespan) Trope. A character who lives or ages in reverse, going backwards in time. The character may remember the past, but age backwards, or the character may remember the future, allowing them to serve as a seer. Sometimes the character remembers successively less of the past as they get younger. Usually this occurs when Merlin Sickness is contracted partway through life.
(tvtropes.com)

mini-me
(kinda like ARed) Theme. 1) Image in which adult is shown with smaller body, like a child. 2) Image in which adult and child swap heads or sizes. parents and daughter
male millenniumhippie (O') - male
(girl/woman) 3
(girl/woman) 4

Mizuage
(coming of age) "Hoisting from water" was a ceremony undergone by a Japanese apprentice geisha to signify her coming of age. When the older geisha deemed the maiko ready, the topknot of her hair was symbolically cut.

Momo no sekku
(FF) Japan, March 3rd. A day to celebrate the growth of young girls.

morph
- Word derived from metamorphosis. It means the smooth transformation from 1 image or object into another.
male old age
(AP AA) 2

my clone
(kinda looks like flashback/ flash forward) Tv Trope or common theme. Young girl imitates older girl, including hairstyle, way of talking, clothes (smaller size). 1 2

not allowed to grow up
- (continuity error looks like age stasis) n. AKA "perpetual childhood." Tv trope/idiom. When a Tv-series is so rigidly defined that the children can't be allowed to grow up, lest the program dynamic change unrecognizably. Emmanuel Lewis, the star of Webster, was 11 when he started playing the title role and 16 when the show ended. His character aged only 3 years during the show's 6-year run, from age 5 to 8. Gary Coleman's character Arnold Jackson on Diff'rent Strokes aged much slower than the rest of the cast. SCTV featured a bittersweet parody: Martin Short portrayed a (former) child actor who has been in the same role for 30 years with the character on the show never aging, even though the actor did. (tvtropes.org)
- (UC, Tv Trope) My Three Sons, 1970. Child star Erin Moran (Victoria) was forced to wear ridiculously inappropriate short dresses way past her growth spurt.

old age
- (OA FF stages) osteo lady - OA

older than they look
(adults disguised as children, age delay or age stasis) Tv Trope mostly used in anime/manga. An adult woman who looks like a child. AKA "fauxli", a portmanteau of "faux" and "loli". Contrivance designed to allow fandom to lust after apparent preteen in a mostly guilt free manner. Other Tropes: "Age Is Relative", "Improbable Age", "Older Than They Think". (TvTropes)

otona ni
AKA "Otonani" To adult. Japanese for growing up.

paraphilic infantilism
(ARed wish) Paraphilia. The desire to be a baby.

PC
Abbr. for "Physical Change". Person is aged or regressed. However, their mind does not change.

PE
(usually male size increase, some TG)
AKA "Penis Expansion". Similar theme to Breast Expansion. The penis expanded to extreme proportions. Not known to involve UC, CB - male

pedovestism
(age play AA) Paraphilia. The desire to dress like a child.

photoshop contest
(AP) Contest (worth1000, Fark.com, etc) in which source image is altered in various ways. AP - AP - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7

Pinch for an Inch, A
(growth) Birthday saying. Recipient pinched to "grow an inch".

plot relevant age up
(AP) Tv trope/theme. A character is aged, usually to adolescence, after being in another dimension, time travel, or other. Done for same reason as Inexplicable Age Up
(SORAS) Also seen in sitcoms. Easily spotted in advance if the presence of a baby or little kid doesn't make sense. Occasionally, the writers will decide the age-up was a mistake (or won't be able to hold on to the age-up actor), and will revert the character back to where they started. Examples: ST:DS9 "Time's Orphan" 8 y.o. Molly was adultified into Michelle Krusiec. Angel: Angel's son. Starhunter: Travis Montana goes from a young boy to an adult in between seasons.

posture photos
(sometimes flash forward) Extremely rare type of photograph. Subject's whole body is photographed while standing straight up and facing foward, their arms at their side. Was sometimes used in long term child growth studies.

pregnancy progression
(FF) Recording the changes of the pregnant body.
- alternate
- (FF) 2
- (time lapse) FF CGI

Process, The
(AP, AR, TF) Web community and archive started by Lorekeep ca. 1998 as a home for female transformation scenes. Different sections show women transforming into bodybuilders, giantesses, transsexuals, dolls, balloons, clams, gnus, etc. The AP/AR section of the site deals exclusively with female age transformations, mostly manga/anime related. Updated several times per week.

puberty
(flash forward AP) AKA adolescence. Stage of rapid physical development when secondary sexual characteristics appear and reproduction becomes possible. French: Puberte. German: Pubertat, Pubertaet. Italian: Pubert�. Spanish/Portuguese: Pubertad.
AP
Chinese name for puberty:
�'春期
Japanese name for puberty:
思春期
Japanese name for adolescence:
�'年期
(AP) Same girl photographed in 7th and 8th grade. AP

Punky Brewster Effect
(flash forward) Noun. Occurrence in which young child star suddenly becomes beautiful woman after going through puberty; named after sitcom character played by Soleil Moon Frye in mid-80's; also known as Rudy Huxtable Syndrome. Keisha Knight Pulliam, Alyssa Milano, Candace Cameron, Lacey Chabert, Madeline Zima, Raven Symone, Mackenzie Rosman, etc, etc, all went through the Punky Brewster Effect.
Name of male version of Effect is unknown. (urbandictionary)

really seven hundred years old
(age stasis, age disguise) Tv Trope mostly used in anime/manga. what better way to hide your identity than by taking on the form of a perky prepubescent girl who looks like she's barely out of elementary school? (TvTropes)

retcon
(kinda looks like AA APed) The deliberate, unexplained change of a previously established fact in a work of serial fiction for plot reasons, such as the alteration of a character's age.
AKA "continuity change", "reality shift". Some examples that were found in Tv soaps:
OC, The
- Marissa's 10-year-old sister returned in season 3 as a 15 year old (Willa Holland).
Days of our Lives
- 6 y.o. Belle Black and Philip Kiriakis returned to Salem as 16 year olds (changing their birth years to 1983).
- 8-year-old Sami Brady was aged into a 15 y.o. in 1993 (Alison Sweeney).
- Abby Deveraux was changed from 11 to 17 (14 y.o. Ashley Benson).
All My Children
- Kendall Hart (Sarah Michelle Gellar) was a waifish teen in 1993, despite the fact that she was born c.1970. Fans protested, and so the show's producers immediately aged Kendall to "over 21".

sleep mode size
(size reduction AR-like) Tv-Trope. When immensely powerful Anime characters have their power sealed, the artists will draw them in their depowered or "sleep mode" states as tiny, delicate, and incredibly doll like versions of their normal selves, with the wardrobe to match, be it Elegant Gothic Lolita or a more standard Kawaiiko. A normal sized character can be turned into Sleep Mode Size if she has her powers temporarily drained. Another version is the character just looking like a child version of herself. Sometimes the cast knows about only that version. The Reveal will show her to be extremely powerful... and really good looking.

somatology
(male AP flash forward) Archaic term for study of the form of the human body, including growth. male growth - male

SORAS
Abbr. for: Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome.

Tanner Stages
- (AP) The stages of growth as seen during puberty - 1
- (AP) excellent AP BE From A Guide to the Practice of Paediatric Endocrinology:
- AP - male puberty stages close ups - ff - ff - male - male
- (AP) medical photography of growth stages 5
- (AP) BE - BE

Tanner Stages
- Series of drawings found on puberty info site shows boys at each of the 5 Tanner Stages - male
- (AP FF) 9
- (AP FF BE) growing girl
- (male puberty growth) Medical photography of the male growth process:
- male - male
- (AP BE) stages - medical (Katsumend) More to come.

TF
Abbr. for "Transformation". When a being changes into a different form.

TG
Abbr. for "Trans-Gender". A being suddenly changes gender.

thelarche
(AP BE) 1st stage of secondary breast development, occurring at the beginning of puberty in girls. Referred to as "breast bud", or Tanner stage 2.

time-lapse
(AP FF) AKA timelapse. Adj. Photography of slow process at intervals to show change. For example, the growth of a girl into a woman.
AP - AP - AP - AP - AP - AP - AP

Turn Back The Clock
(AR, AP) Website started in 1998 by Uniclock collective as a repository for AR/AP comic scans, other media, original content, and an interactive AR/AP database.

UC
- male
- Little girl likes to wear outgrown clothes. 1
- male
- UC top

UC
Abbr. for "Undersized Clothing". Personal growth causes clothes to tighten. However, they have not yet burst.
- alternate

uncanny valley
- (age transition) Feeling of discomfort when one is unsure which type of entity one is dealing with. Originally meant to describe the response to increasingly human-like robots. Can also be used to describe the discomfort associated with the transition between any 2 entities that look similar, but have extremely different social roles, such as the change from girl to woman. Mori's modified hypothesis states that as a little girl becomes more mature in her appearance and behavior, the emotional response from bystanders will become increasingly meaningful, until an age is reached where many heterosexual males feel sudden discomfort or even revulsion, unsure whether to think of her as a cute kid or as a sex object. As her appearance becomes indistinguishable from a fully grown, over-18 woman, the emotional response suddenly flips back to positive.
- (FFed) Hermione

vague age
(age continuity errors) Tv Trope. When animated characters are deliberatly drawn at ambiguous or inconstant ages, without age transformations taking place. Related to "chibi" phenomenon.
Sailor Moon Hotaru Tomoe, AKA Sailor Saturn, showed odd variations of age depending on who she was with. Some fans believed she has the power to de-age/age at will.
Happy Tree Friends are whatever age is necessary for the cartoon to work. A handful of characters are always portrayed as adults.
Animal Yokocho anime (or Ani Yoko) has a super mature 6 year old.
(TvTropes.com)

video mash-up
(kinda looks like AP) AKA "mashup" Off-topic scenes that are technically not AP, but portions can be interpreted as part of aging scene. With creative editing, out of context "found video" can be used to simulate transformation scenes. Added here due to critically extreme shortage of CB/AP or real life growth sequences.
teen daughter CB
growth
UC scene costume shrinking scene looks like growth spurt
flashback

wild child
(coming of age, flash forward) AKA feral children. Literary theme in which child grows up alone in natural setting. Examples:
books
The Capacity and Extent of Human Understanding Exemplified in the Extraordinary Case of Automathes (male coming of age) Rev John Kirkby, 1745. The extraordinary case of a young nobleman who was accidentally left in his infancy upon a desolate island and continued 19 years in that solitary state, separate from all human society.
books
The Little Savage (male coming of age) Frederick Marryat. "I was now, by Jackson's account, nearly fourteen years old. It might be fourteen more, or double that time might elapse, before I should again fall in with any of my fellow-creatures."
movies
The Little Savage (male coming of age) 1959 swashbuckler. Captain Tiburon is saved by the only inhabitant of an island, a young boy named Frank (Terry Rangno, with Robert Palmer as the adult Frank). They save a comely maiden.
books
The Wild Man of the Woods. A Story of The Island of Sumatra (male coming of age) AKA "L'enfant des bois". Elie Berthet, 1868. 8-year-old son of a planter is kidnapped and brought up for some years by orang-utan.
books
Ambrose and Eleanor, or, The adventures of two children deserted on an uninhabited island (coming of age) 1796, Ducray-Duminil, Francois Guillaume & Lucy Peacock (trans)
books
New Eden, The (coming of age) Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne, 1892. A scientist isolates a boy and girl on 2 remote tropical islands for experimental purposes. "A Robinsonade of feral man, embodying a philosophy of social development. Surprisingly frank for its period.

wuntsah
(flash forward) Wuntsah is simply an idea: Once a month, you take a photo of yourself and post it with a brief summary of what happened to you. Over time, you see how you've subtly changed, and have a very simple chronology of when things happened in your life. Track your personal, social, and physical growth visually through periodic photos, using whichever frequency (wuntsah day, wuntsah month, wuntsah year) you feel most comfortable with.

AP: age progression
AR: age regression
CB: clothes burst or rip
UC: undersized clothing
AA: age-appropriate clothing or clothes grow too
RN: return to normal