@foreverlurk with 10 other kids from your school?! And it was your first time seeing the episode ‍ I can imagine your internal struggle in that moment.

I would of been like “heyyyyy so like totally weird episode let’s open gifts and eat more cake NOW”

yes on both counts. wtf, out of all episodes, at the worst possible time - why were we even watching cartoons at a birthday party!? I was paranoid someone had seen me drooling over the shrunken girl

the other times, it was just my sister and I watching cartoons, but I’m 90% sure she knows about my fetish. I mean, between that, the “shrinking games” I always wanted to play, and her Barbies mysteriously making their way into my room… she must have connected the dots!

I would of been like “heyyyyy so like totally weird episode let’s open gifts and eat more cake NOW”

Did you guys ever try to recreate any other shrunken scenarios?

No, it was really a spur of the moment thing, we weren’t even that close. Its such a strong memory and I had never shared it with anyone, I though I’d take that little moment of childhood bliss to my grave.

If we were watching something and suddenly a character shrunk or if there was some kind of interaction with a giant my face would turn bright red, I’d sweat a little too…

Argh, same! Like I said, cartoons were my primary source of SW when I was young, and almost every series had a shrinking episode. I felt, and still feel a non negligible amount of shame about this fetish (working on it!), so the few times it happened were really embarrassing.

So, you know that Captain Planet episode where the russian girl shrank out of her clothes? With the handheld at the end? Yeah, well the first time I ever watched that was at a birthday party. With like 10 other kids. From my school.

Kill. Me. Now.

I didn’t get to play any shrinking games with my friends, I remember feeling pretty shy/embarrassed about wanting to be tiny so I did my best to hide it.
If we were watching something and suddenly a character shrunk or if there was some kind of interaction with a giant my face would turn bright red, I’d sweat a little too… then I would quickly look around the room to see who was reading my macro thoughts
Now I’m much more (if not painfully) vocal about my fetish

The most I ever dared do was to slip some Size into our D&D campaigns. I was very sparing lest they figure it out. Perhaps three times over twenty years or so.

I was a teen when I played D&D regularly, and aware of the sexual side of size things.Too uncomfortable for me to have shrinking in our sessions, I think. A shame because I do remember a couple of Forgotten Realms campaigns using size reduction creatively, like this one alchemist having to treat a sick girl with an ultra rare onguent, having only has a small dose, so he shrinks her to six inches tall - problem solved! Well, until a Zin / snake-spirit decides to capture her while she’s tiny. It’s from the “The Talking Tent”, in the Al-Qadim’s setting. :

https://archive.org/details/tsr09459addaccessoryfraqcaravans/page/n37/mode/2up

In the same setting, there are ruins of a city where every citizen were shrunk out of their armor/clothes to the size of insects :

• “To cease hostilities, aid from a Djinni was sought out of desperation by the humans. The djinni took their plea quite literally, shrinking every citizen of Vahtov to the size of insects. Since no one was now able to lift their weapons, all lost the taste for war. One week later the citizens were consumed by a flock of ravens from the Pit of the Ghuls. Only a small band escaped by hiding in the wilderness. These survivors set aside their differences and founded a new city deep within a crack in the ground. This secret city was rumored to still exist, filled with the miniscule descendants, none of them larger than a man’s thumb.”

@littlest-lily said in What is your earliest memory of having this fetish?:

We also played Animorphs (I can’t remember how popular it was, but it was a book series where the kids get the ability to turn into animals)

Magic School Bus, and Animorphs, I knew about those but I was older by then, still I can clearly see how those were triggers for imagination games.

Except this guy was an asshole and honestly a cruel giant but my third grade self didn’t know any better and I guess I was desperate lol).

LOL!
And I like your subtle system to “detect” which friends were receptive, very clever. The things we…

Instead of Magic School Bus we played Magic Playground. That way we would visit all kinds of places in our imaginations, it just so happened that a lot of them involved being tiny, just like in the show.

We also played Animorphs (I can’t remember how popular it was, but it was a book series where the kids get the ability to turn into animals). Again, could turn into all sorts of animals and have all sorts of imaginary adventures, but I tended to turn into very small animals for stealth missions.

I also remember pretending that my scissors were a shrinking device that would shrink whatever was cut, and we played with shrinking our pencils or whatever in class, until I pretended I “cut” myself (these were super round/blunt scissors, I swear it was much more silly and innocent than it sounds lol). That’s how I tested which of my friends would be down with shrinking games. One of the guys I knew really seemed to enjoy it, he would “take me home” and tell me about the “adventures he took me on,” so that was great. (Except this guy was an asshole and honestly a cruel giant but my third grade self didn’t know any better and I guess I was desperate lol).

OMG my poor normie friends were subjected sooo many times to my pretend games of shrinking. I stopped bringing them up when I started to get the feeling they were on to me.

The most I ever dared do was to slip some Size into our D&D campaigns. I was very sparing lest they figure it out. Perhaps three times over twenty years or so.

2. sometimes as a kid I’d get paranoid that I was bothering friends with too many shrinking games, but in this case they were really engaged, and I love it when the giant is just as excited about the size difference as I am.

Whoa, wait - shrinking games? You had those, too?! OMG my poor normie friends were subjected sooo many times to my pretend games of shrinking. I stopped bringing them up when I started to get the feeling they were on to me. Children have such amazing interior worlds and imagination!

I’m amazed how common all our stories are - even from the other gender/size of things. Incredible I thought for so long I was the only one, and that there was something profundly wrong with me.

I think this memory makes me happy because 1) I love the whole shrinking smaller and smaller to micro sizes thing and 2) sometimes as a kid I’d get paranoid that I was bothering friends with too many shrinking games, but in this case they were really engaged, and I love it when the giant is just as excited about the size difference as I am.

Like you, it was all innocent at the time, but it was definitely formative!

A vivid memory from the day right after : the neighbor (girl, my age) and I talked about seeing the movie, and somehow we decided to recreate the scene where King Kong blows air on Dwan. I climbed a tree in front of her house, about 10 feet up. Sitting on a branch, I closed one eye and put my palm in front of me, looking down at her on the ground and pretending to be “holding” her in my palm. She played along, acting the part, and while of course this was purely innocent, my young mind was blown and I still remember that childhood moment.

Also in Quebec we had access to a lot of weird French and Japanese cartoons that featured shrinking, I always hoped for episodes w/ shrinking girls. It was a common trope for 80s/90s cartoons.

Blame Gen V for me being more talkative and in the community more lately.

But my origins range from Ferngully and Tinker Bell but also

The 1999-2000 Hallmark Alice in Wonderland and seeing that version of Alice shrink.
Honey I Blew Up The Kid with the babysitter who I had a crush on and somehow with that microsecond of her shrunk at the end started something.
Strange Days at Blake Holsey High for sure I think was the gasoline.

And finding Minimizer’s site an the SW Archive of links at 13-14 at my uncles house. It really exploded my fetish.

And here we are.