I do wonder if "our" interest in these products, helps or hinders their development. Or if "we" are such a vanishingly small demographic that it doesn't come into the equation?
"Should we launch a line of juvenile pull-ups that would fit the average adult?"
"Well, the market for kids that size that still need pull-ups is pretty small, and already served by the medical diaper industry, but we'd definitely get some business from the ABDL market..."
I suspect that Pull-Ups jumped in because of the sales stats on the XXL Goodnites, which I think exceeded expectations, given that they are now available everywhere. The larger sizes in "baby" products do seem to get well received - I have a buddy who works in supply chain for a major supermarket chain in Canada, who said they saw size 8 diapers as a specialty product, and they only allocated shelf space for it in a couple of their largest stores with high pharmacy sales, but the response caused them to put size 8's into most of their stores, because they immediately started selling. Whether this is due to childhood obesity, delayed potty training, or an undercurrent of ABDL interest within the populace, was not discussed. Which could be a bonus, or a potential danger to the brand, depending on the viewpoint, I guess. I'm sure this would be a consideration, if they Pampers ever mused about creating a size 10 product, for example. We'd sell a bunch of them to nostalgic adults, but, do we want our brand associated with a fetish community...?
I've been wearing diapers for 7 years, and I've had nappies on, on occasion, for far longer than that, but I still occasionally marvel at the sight of myself in a nappy, in the mirror. I used to look at myself as a kid, in a diaper, and feel a mix of excitement and shame, and then there was a loooong stretch where I didn't have access to nappies, and then I was able access them again, and to have the privacy to wear them, this time by choice, rather than requirement, and I was over the moon that I could wear them. You'd think the novelty would have long since worn off, but I'm still amazed, sometimes, when presented with visual evidence that, yup, I wear diapers.