While many social media platforms permit users as young as 13, our platform restricts membership to individuals 18 years of age or older for several important reasons:

• Mental Health Considerations: Engaging with traumatic memories may have significant emotional consequences. Adults are generally better equipped to manage these potential impacts and seek appropriate support. The nature of content on our platform requires a mature approach to emotional processing that may not be developmentally appropriate for minors.
• Risk Reduction: The 18+ restriction helps prevent exposing minors to potentially triggering content about childhood trauma, which could be particularly impactful for adolescents who may still be processing their own childhood experiences while living in their formative environment.
• Clinical Considerations: Trauma processing for minors is typically guided by mental health professionals in structured settings. Our platform explicitly states it is not a substitute for professional mental health services, which is particularly important for younger individuals who benefit from more direct professional support when addressing trauma.
• Legal Protections: Minors have additional legal protections under various regulations including COPPA and similar laws worldwide. Allowing them on a platform where traumatic experiences are shared could create substantial legal exposure and complications, particularly regarding content moderation and data privacy.
• Informed Consent: Adults can more fully understand the potential psychological impacts of engaging with traumatic content and make informed decisions about their participation. The ability to provide meaningful informed consent is crucial given the nature of our platform.
• Content Appropriateness: The detailed nature of trauma discussions on our platform, while valuable for adult healing, may not be appropriate for minors who are still developing emotional regulation skills and psychological resilience.

We acknowledge that childhood trauma affects people of all ages, including those under 18. For minors seeking support for traumatic experiences, we strongly encourage:

• Working with qualified mental health professionals who specialize in childhood trauma
• Engaging with age-appropriate support resources designed specifically for younger individuals
• Seeking guidance from school counselors, trusted adults, or appropriate youth-focused support organizations

Our age restriction is not intended to diminish the experiences of younger individuals but rather to ensure that our platform remains a safe and appropriate environment for processing childhood trauma through an adult perspective.

• Spam/Self-Promotion: Posting repetitive, unsolicited, or commercial content, including advertisements, referral links, or promotional codes.
• Content Recycling: Creating and sharing posts that are substantially similar to content you have previously shared, with only minor variations, in an attempt to gain additional exposure.
• Double Posting: Sharing the exact same content multiple times across the platform.
• Bulk Posting: Uploading numerous posts in quick succession that overwhelm community feeds and diminish user experience.
• Harassment: Any content intended to abuse, intimidate, threaten, or cause emotional distress to other users.
• Misinformation: Deliberately sharing false information that could be harmful or misleading to other users, particularly regarding mental health treatments, legal processes for reporting abuse, or therapeutic approaches.
• NSFW Content: Any sexually explicit, pornographic, or excessively graphic content, including detailed descriptions of sexual abuse beyond what is necessary to convey the experience.
• Off-Topic: Content that deviates significantly from the platform's purpose of sharing childhood memories and experiences for reflection and healing.
• Misleading: Content that intentionally misrepresents experiences or facts, including fabricated stories presented as authentic memories.
• Affiliate Marketing: Sharing content with embedded affiliate links or promoting products, services, or treatments with financial incentives.

• Multiple Reported Comments: Users who have a pattern of posts or comments that are frequently reported by the community may face moderation action, even if individual violations are minor.
• Excessive Self-Promotion: Repeatedly directing users to external resources, services, or platforms, especially when there is a personal or financial interest involved.
• Heated Discussion: Engaging in or provoking hostile exchanges that disrupt the supportive environment of the platform, even if individual comments don't clearly violate other rules.
• Attempting to Identify Users: Any efforts to determine the real identity of other platform users, including asking for identifying details or cross-referencing information from posts.
• Creating Multiple Accounts: Operating multiple accounts to evade moderation, manipulate platform features, or harass other users is prohibited. However, we understand that some users may have legitimate reasons for creating separate accounts (e.g., to compartmentalize different aspects of their trauma). If you believe you have a valid reason for multiple accounts, please contact us to discuss your situation.

Our platform is specifically designed for sharing and reflecting on childhood memories in a supportive environment. To maintain this focused purpose and ensure a healing-centered space, we do not permit:

• Political, Social, Family or Parenting Discussions: Content primarily focused on raising political, social, family or parenting concerns, highlighting systemic discrimination, injustices, prejudice, or bias belongs on platforms dedicated to those discussions and will be considered off-platform. While content that connects personal childhood memories to larger issues issues is permitted, posts that are focused primarily on larger socio-political, family or parenting issues may be considered off-topic.
• Controversies Around Treatment Approaches: Debates about the efficacy, validity, or superiority of various treatment methods for PTSD, C-PTSD, or other trauma-related conditions. While you may mention what has helped you personally, advocating for specific approaches or criticizing others' treatment choices is not permitted.
• Present-Day Family Relationship Discussions: Debates or advice-seeking about parent-child relationships, sibling dynamics, or decisions regarding family contact (including "going no-contact" with family members, estrangement, or reconciliation) are not permitted. While sharing childhood experiences involving family members is central to our platform, discussions about how to manage these relationships in the present should be directed to appropriate support forums or professional counselors.

Content or comments that shift toward these types of debates will be subject to moderation, including possible removal, visibility restrictions, or other actions. While we respect the importance of these topics, our platform is not structured to facilitate productive conversations in these areas. We encourage users to seek appropriate forums dedicated to these specific discussions.

The core purpose of this platform is to provide a space for sharing and reflecting on past childhood experiences. All content and interactions should maintain this past-oriented focus:

• Share memories, not current situations: Posts should describe specific childhood experiences rather than current challenges, ongoing relationships, or present circumstances.
• Reflection rather than advice-seeking: The platform is designed for reflective sharing of what happened in your childhood, not for seeking advice about current situations or relationships.
• Historical context is welcome: You may provide context about when and where your experiences occurred, including relevant cultural, historical, or situational factors that help others understand your childhood experience.
• Limited present connection: Brief mentions of how past experiences connect to your present understanding are acceptable, but the primary focus must remain on the childhood experience itself.
• Similar experience sharing is encouraged: We welcome and encourage users to discuss and connect over similar childhood experiences. One of the core purposes of our platform is to identify and match similar childhood memories as shared by users. These connections, which we call "Related" experiences, can foster understanding, validation, and healing.

Content that primarily focuses on present circumstances, current relationship dynamics, or contemporary issues may be subject to moderation, including possible removal or visibility restrictions. Our moderators will evaluate content based on whether it maintains appropriate focus on childhood experiences rather than current situations.

Our platform is designed for sharing personal childhood memories, not for providing or receiving life advice. We strictly prohibit content that constitutes unqualified life coaching, particularly regarding significant life decisions related to family relationships.

Prohibited Advice: The following types of content are not permitted:

• Family Estrangement Recommendations: Statements encouraging or advising others to "go no contact" or "cut off family members" from their lives, regardless of the situation described
• Prescriptive Life Direction: Directive advice about major life decisions that should be made with professional guidance (e.g., "You should leave your family," "You need to estrange yourself from your parents")
• Generalized Treatment Recommendations: Definitive claims about what treatments or approaches "work" or are "necessary" for healing from trauma
• Self-Promotion as an Authority: Positioning oneself as an authority on trauma, recovery, or family dynamics without relevant professional credentials

Rationale: Decisions regarding family relationships, particularly estrangement, are complex, highly individualized, and can have profound long-term consequences. Such advice, when provided by unqualified individuals in a public forum, may:

• Lead to harmful outcomes for vulnerable individuals
• Oversimplify complex psychological and relational issues
• Substitute for proper professional guidance
• Create liability concerns for both users and the platform

Posts or comments containing such unqualified advice may be removed, have their visibility reduced, or result in account warnings or restrictions. Repeated violations may lead to account termination.

No Promotion of Family Cut-Offs: We recognize that family dynamics are deeply personal and unique to each individual's circumstances. Blanket advice regarding solutions you have implemented in your own family relationships, especially decisions to cut ties or become estranged from family members, siblings, spouse or children, is not permitted in your posts or comments.

Our platform allows users to upload photos to accompany their childhood memories. To maintain privacy, safety, and the platform's purpose, all photo uploads must adhere to the following guidelines: