Well I can attest that my desire to wear diapers surfaced around roughly age seven. I never acted on these desires until to age 26. i didn't even know this community existed and always just suppressed the desires writing them off as abnormal. I spent a good two years as a dl before finally transitioning into the age play suff. I can look back at some instances as a kid and see signs there but that's the thing, we can read more out of any situation when we look back on it. I always like watching cartoons as a teenager when my friends liked all the stupid teen drama crap.(90210, melroe's place and all the other "white people with problems" shows). I didn't enjoy being a kid when I was a kid, so there wasn't this underlining refusal to growing up. i had no awareness or interest in being a baby as a child or teen. As a teen the idea of diapers was sexual and the child like stuff didn't click till after I started exploring the scene. It may also be because I never even heard of the scene prior till age 26, so there was no way to quantitatively identify with a subculture you are unaware of. If you want more info, send me a private message on here, I'll be happy to answer whatever questions I can.