Stanford, to put it bluntly, is an age regressor, but he refuses to believe that. He started involuntary regressing during the time when he was still living with his abusive father to get away from his pressured life into being 'perfect'. He always thought he was just acting childish and it will just be a phase but it wasn't. After a stressful day of researching Gravity Falls, Ford starts feeling himself slipping as he's sitting on his desk, anxiously clicking his pen