Not quite what you're asking for, but when I was young, we had an adult neighbour who was mentally around six due to disability. He loved children, loved playing with them, but once the children in the neighbourhood were around five or six, they no longer wanted to play with him. None of us knew how to deal with him. When we were younger, we loved him. But older than that, and someone being both an adult and a child at the same time was just something that we were weirded out by.
So, a lot here would depend on how close these two people are (so, closer than a neighbour you see every other day), how old they are, how societally accepted/common regressing is in your worldbuilding, and what their relationship is in general.
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Date: 2025-01-22 07:54 pm (UTC)So, a lot here would depend on how close these two people are (so, closer than a neighbour you see every other day), how old they are, how societally accepted/common regressing is in your worldbuilding, and what their relationship is in general.