Aleia

Hmm...now I kind of want to sew my own--it doesn't seem terribly complicated. Of course, I'd add some other fun features like padded crotch straps, a waistband that could be pulled super-tight...

I practically live in thrift stores, but the ones I go to never seem to have anything except the "usual" stuff sold in supermarkets. Which isn't a bad thing, because you can get it dirt cheap, but I'm always hoping to find something a little more rare and a lot thicker. I'll only buy complete, sealed original packages, though--with bags of loose diapers, there's always a good chance the pack outlived its original owner. I just wouldn't feel right wearing someone's dead mother's diapers for pleasure.

I adore Gothic Lolita fashion. There's no need to worry: if you're not interested in spooky girls, they're not interested in your interest.

Ha...I thought I was the only one who saved a "sample" of each type. My collection could fetch a fortune someday...or I could open a museum.

Never tried it myself, but I'm sure crayons or colored pencils would work well on a cloth-like cover, and they wouldn't bleed. Any kind of ink--even permanent marker--is going to bleed into adjacent fibers as you draw, so you won't get clean lines. With a plastic cover, I'd go with a permanent marker.

Welcome to DD.

Yep, I had to get pretty creative before I discovered it was, in fact, possible to buy adult diapers without having a vital organ fail at the checkout. I would fold up a towel and place it on a plastic bag, which I would draw up between my legs and tie at the waist. Theoretically, it could work, but nothing beats the security and authenticity of the real thing...

My actual waist is small enough, but I have yet to find a baby diaper long enough to get past my big child-birthin' hips.

Ooh, I'll be interested to hear people's answers. I'd love to be affectionately taunted, to be told big girls don't wear diapers, that I'm still a little baby because I pee and poop in diapers, that Mommy's going to have to keep me in diapers for a long, long time until I start acting like a big girl. Even better if my "brothers" and "sisters" have long since moved on to big girl and big boy pants while I'm the only one still stuck in diapers like the little baby I insist on being.

My parents' basement is a museum of my childhood. We still have many of my old toys, stuffed animals, books, clothes, videos, cassettes, and blankies. I refuse to give up hope of finding a diaper in there somewhere...

I like to wet my diapers, but I don't do it often, mostly for practicality's sake. I'm tight on money, so I can't afford to go through diapers very quickly. I also live with my parents, and it's a bit of a chore to make sure they don't find my used diapers in the trash. Third, the cleanup is 6000% less fun than the wetting, especially when stealth is a priority. I wish I had a mommy to do it for me...

I love me a thick diaper, but not so absurdly thick, stiff and heavy that it feels more like a stack of couch cushions than an authentic diaper. I don't really care for multi-diapering with disposables, either, unless I'm being cheap and don't want to use up my X-pluses. Again, it kind of takes away from the authenticity. An Abena X-Plus with an Abri-Let is all I need.

What I see here is a child innocently crossing adults' boundaries of gender. He's not a freak, nor is he a poster child for transgender rights--he's SEVEN. I don't have anything against transgendered people, but Bobby's mother, the media, and everyone involved here has taken his innocent, harmless request and exploited it to make a social statement, to paint anyone who is uncomfortable with transgenderism for any reason as a cruel bastard who will say "no" to a sweet little child. That disgusts me more than the non-news of people expecting others to conform to their own standards. Why can't we all agree that the middle of the sexuality/gender identity debate is a nasty place for a child? A decent parent would have said "sorry, honey, it's okay that you want to be a Girl Scout, but it just doesn't work that way," and let it go. Even if he does grow to identify as female, he doesn't need to be a Girl Scout in order to do so. Either way, the reality is the Girl Scouts environment would probably do his self-image more harm than good. All this kid needs to do is grow up and figure out who he is without the "help" of the media, activist groups, or anyone else who has some perverse stake in whether he ultimately identifies as male or female.

What about the telltale bulge?

It sounds like some of you need to come off your pedestals and at least try to see the perspective of the 99.99% of the world's population that has the nerve not to have carefully researched every conceivable fetish and lifestyle out there. Our fetish flies way under the radar; everyone is aware of pedophilia, however, and hears about it daily in the news and such. When the average person sees childless adults stockpiling baby things and wearing diapers, it's just natural that the more salient thing, pedophilia, will be the first thing to come to mind. Meanwhile (no duh), something they've never even heard of is very unlikely to magically pop into their heads. Wetnmessy isn't "targeting" anyone. He's just saying that, FROM OTHER PEOPLE'S PERSPECTIVE, people who go ABDL in public APPEAR to be weirdos, IN OTHER PEOPLE'S EYES. I don't see anything illogical or impertinent about that--it's just reality, like it or not. Stealing a child's dirty diapers to do I-seriously-don't-want-to-imagine-what with them is WAY outside the bounds of harmless fetishism. Only the sickest of minds could draw any link whatsoever between sex and children's body fluids. This creeper needs to be kept as far away from children as possible.