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I make my own with

I have always returned to diapers after throwing them out, and have read elsewhere of others having the same experience.

Ditto to Daily Di about "a long line of 'holics and no real addiction".

I use Fetware products, and like their website.

I make my own using flannel from FlannelWorld. The edges are not hemmed.

Part of that new legislation was vetoed by governors. They have a problem with enforcement of privacy in a stall.

Congregationalist - part of United Church of Christ - a healing joyful

When was Tommy no longer with us? He was a pioneer to our benefit. I found DPF fairly quickly when I first joined the Internet in 1996. Tommy was not obviously present then. For years DPF and HB Enterprises were the only good sources. I bought from both of them. Tommy and his DPF are seen by comparison with the other ABDL websites. Curiously Daily Di, Forever-A-Kid (now closed), and Fetware all opened in 1999, about the time DPF began to feel stale. I miss Marcie of FAK, but her first child must be 13, 14, or 15 now, and yes, things change. Let's see how this would work in her Point of View to her children approaching puberty. "Why yes, honey, I make clothing for your ABDL uncle, and have made a business out of it. What's an ABDL? Well, ..." I haven't found an ABDL clothing source as good as hers - or maybe I like less frenetic websites. What to say to her kids is a moment when Marcie and the rest of us need Tommy. Observations from Tommy over time filtered through the internet noise. One of those from his experiences was that ABDLs seemed to come from the more intellectual professions - like lawyers. I do not know if that was or is true, but he thought so enough to say so. I'd like to know more and have updated information. I'm drafting a survey on work and careers to propose to Mike for Daily Di. Tommy had children (maybe 2), was divorced, and said he was about 60% gay. I liked the way he said that. He had a broad enough experience to be a credible commentator on the ABDL corner of the world. Both Tommy and HB Jones made a few very credible comments on ABDLs before we had Mike's comments on the Daily Di "About Us" webpage. HB Jones said she had met about 2,000 adult babies and their wives and sweethearts. As of her comment she was only talking about male ABDLs. Mike on Daily Di is the first and only to say there is a 40%/60% ratio of women to men. I believe him. Divide 2,000 into the population of the UK is the only credible estimate of ABDLs I have ever seen of about 1 in 20,000. 20,000 divided into the population of 5mm in the Atlanta, Georgia, area, which is about the population of Norway, makes for 250 ABDLs in one place. Tommy made a sincere effort for ABDLs to connect and meet, but it never really took off and fizzled. I would like us to do better, but haven't figured out how. Perhaps, we could call it "Tommy's Place". Tommy found diapers in his young twenties after serving in the military. I sense a Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome here, but he never said enough about himself to know that. Tommy said the story Ritchie was the most popular story he had ever had on DPF, and said he released it to the public domain. It is on the Daily Di story page, and I hope you read it and reply here on what you think of his comment on it. I sensed he was declining from the increasing staleness of the DPF site. Then he said he was of ill health and wanted to sell DPF. I wish I could remember the year. No buyers. By then providers to ABDLs used E-Bay and did not need their own website so much. Tommy acquired an "Amber" product line. That may have only been plastic pants, but I do not really know. Tommy provided a date of 1980 for the start of the Amber line. That date gives us a sense of when there were enough ABDLs in the San Francisco area to become a market. Tommy posted or repeated a few things that I wish we had his original words. One of those I thought highly of, may have been from Tommy, was a comment to a mother of a 7 or 8 year old who wanted to be in diapers again. Mom was perplexed. Whoever responded said to her to ask herself and her son what was the source of stress in the kid's life. Fix that. If the kid was hooked on diapers at that age beware his going underground. Encourage talking because that will be the most important thing in that child's life. I agree. I'll propose a survey to Mike on the age question. Tommy would want us to. My personal faith opinion is that Our Creator is loving and forgiving. I hope so. The theme applies to DPF and to here at Daily Di of "no matter who you are, or where you are on life's journey, you are welcome here". I hope Tommy was admitted to Heaven. Thank you Tommy for all that you did for all of us. In memory of Tommy.

Dear NotaDL There have been several good replies.

Tried to give up diapers multiple times which never worked.

I'm a DL.