Baby Lily Luna

*lifts up skirt to check very clearly padded butt* Nope, magic 8 ball says "don't count on it" on that one, chief.

Here's an old post I dug up that would be related to this topic, that might be worth a read.

Never thought I'd see this old thread again, takes me back. Nonetheless, I'm glad to see it dug up and being so popular years after I made it. From the looks of it, there's alot more to be said about this topic.

I'm not physically disabled, only mentally, and too high functioning to really qualify for any benefits. My Aspergers Syndrome is unique in that no one can really tell I'm on the spectrum just by looking at me. Perhaps wheelmate, despite the name of the app could still be helpful even if I am fully ambulatory. I also don't exactly have a place of my own just yet, but I'm getting there, and am about to graduate college and hopefully find a decent career soon after.

I was meaning to post this earlier, but never got around to it until now. I posted on another forum about how I have a form of functional incontinence, with someone replying even saying I would be a "poster child for functional incontinence." For the sake of brevity and to save time I will just copy and paste the main bit of the post here: I guess you could say I have a form of incontinence. I have some pretty inconvenient IBS D and I'm either rushing to a toilet most times during its most intense flare ups or uncomfortably struggling to hold it to avoid making an embarassing mess until I can conveniently find a toilet. It's not fun, but wearing diapers full time would make it a hell of lot more convenient to deal with, I can tell you that much. In fact, I probably should, but may have to purchase my own supplies out of pocket and I cannot currently afford to do that so I'm stuck in a sort of inbetween position where I could technically survive without diapers and pass as a normal continent person, but it's just really inconvenient to do so. It's not impossible, just incredibly inconvenient and the inconveniences of managing the IBS with diapers in my own internal logical deliberation are concluded to far more manageable to deal with than the risk of an embarassing unprotected mess and the pain/discomfort of struggling to hold it which is equally unhealthy. The choice is obvious. Faux-incontinence, laziness, call it what you will, but the fact is treating my condition as full blown incontinence and managing it as such is the most logical option for someone in my position, better safe than sorry. I figure if I have a reasonable shot at getting a prescription I may as well talk to my doctor and give it a try. If I succeed, great! If I fail, I will have to find a cost effective budgeting strategy to pay for my supplies out of pocket. Continuing without diapers, doable? Yes Convenient? Hell no! I'd rather stop fighting my body and be padded all the time just in case a bathroom is not immediately nearby when my IBS flares up. It's possible going diaperless being doable for me could hurt my chances despite doing so being terribly inconvenient. Either way, I'm planning on wearing 24/7 with or without a prescription and will pay out of pocket if I absolutely have to as of the two options, going diapered full time is more convenient for me than the alternative.

Anything is possible if we tap into our power as consumers.

Good news, KC is bringing back the old plastic Depends due to low sales and consumer backlash, they are already out in S/M in some places.

So i posted a thread wondering about the future of plastic backed diapers on ADISC so I figured I'd also share it with community here. Not sure if this sub forum is entirely the correct place to post this, but if it isn't feel free to move it to wherever it fits best. Here goes: I want to preface this by saying that different people have different tastes and preferences and some people like plastic while others like cloth backed and that's ok. What's not ok is eliminating choice and alienating one segment of a market or another. People should always have choices available so they can pick and choose what they prefer. That said, why am I so worried as to word the title of this thread the way I did? I was talking to a friend about how most medical oriented adult diaper manufacturers are switching fully to cloth backed and eliminating any and all plastic options altogether. This is distressing because people should be able to have at least a basic degree of choice in what type of product they prefer. No one segment of people should be alienated by having their choice taken away. That friend told me that HDIS told her that about 90% of medical adult diaper manufacturers have fully switched over to cloth backing. I don't know how accurate that percentage is nor whether it applies worldwide or just in the US, but it sounds scary to people like me who prefer plastic backed and would love to continue to have the option to wear and use plastic backed products. One issue I see pointed out is the vast majority of the full protection incontinence market consists of caregivers and long term care institutions who more often than not don't actually use the products they buy but instead buy them for others who do use them. This makes these people susceptible to marketing because they don't personally use these products and thus don't know any better. They have to go by what companies tell them is good or works well and often times that can be more misleading marketing than actual helpful information. As I said before, I don't mind cloth backed or the people who prefer it but I want everyone to have options. I think it would be just as unfair to the people who prefer cloth backed to have their options stamped out in favor a majority move to plastic as it would be to people like me to have our options stamped out in favor of a majority move to cloth backed. I want choices because I want both sides to be satisfied. On to the actual title. I'm worried my biggest fear may come true in that one day all medical adult diaper manufacturers worldwide will switch to cloth backed leaving us with ABDL companies as the only avenue for my product of choice, which doesn't sound so bad until you consider the possibility that it could end up becoming an expensive oligopoly because it's such a niche market with not nearly enough competition to offset the high prices created by such high demand and low supply for such a niche market. I'm worried that for IC folks who prefer plastic and pay out of pocket, plastic backed adult diapers will become so prohibitively expensive that we either have to live with cloth backed or just switch to actual cloth diapers. So how realistic is this nightmare scenario 10 years from now? 20? 30? More importantly what can be done to ensure that both sides of the fence have as many options as possible?

I can only speak for myself, I believe I understand the ramifications, which is why my own personal disability identity is heavily modified and different from anything observed in the known world. I just don't think it's possible to be mentally disabled enough to need the level of care I describe while still maintaining my unique personality and intelligence and the ability to express it. Which is why my identity is so complex because it's tailored to be a compromise where an actual mental condition that offers such a compromise may not actually exist in reality due to our still limited understanding of how the brain works. My sci fi story attempts to explain it by theorizing the brain is more complex than we give it credit for and that it actually may be possible for a mental condition to exist where it affects the brain in such a way as to destroy or damage the capacity for self care while still leaving overall intelligence, verbal skills, personality, and the ability to express it all mostly or even fully intact. Such a compromise could exist in reality, we just don't know it yet because science and technology haven't progressed far enough to be able to explore that possibility.

I tend not to pay any mind to labels and just be myself and pursue whatever makes me happy. It's a mixed blessing. Many times it feels like a curse and I wish I could cure it, other times it's a blessing. It's a mixed bag.

Sorry in advance for being inactive as long as I have, life keeps me busy. Now, this is the kind of conversation I've been waiting to have on these boards. I myself am disabled with Aspergers Syndrome, however, I always felt more disabled than I actually am. I don't think I would want to be so disabled as to be completely passive in everything. I could definitely see the appeal of severely disabled play. I wouldn't mind being completely passive in my own care or bedridden etc.every once in a while and maybe only for a day or two or some short term basis no longer than a week. For me, that kind

a pack a month is all well and good, except I'm using my diapers for everything so I'll have to change more often to keep my skin healthy.

I've found diaperbuys has the best prices I've found but they don't have molicare. I plan to train myself to just dribble constantly rather than flood as most diapers aren't designed to hold floods and everyone knows what will happen if you try to do that in depends. That could mean ATN and even cheaper brands like hospital and nursing home brands that may be better than depends could work pretty well for me. I already of know of one institutional brand that works quite well for someone medically incontinent friends I know of.

I'm going 24/7 and using my diapers for everything and 24/7 will be expensive, especially when just starting out. I need to know some recommendations for a brand or cycle of brands that I can rely on. I only plan to change 3-4 times in a 24 hr period, preferably 3, but no more than 4 under normal circumstances. It could be a brand that can hold up well on its own for day and night time without a booster, or a brand that hold up well for day time on its own, but I don't mind using a booster for night time. I could also have a set day time diapers, and a night time diaper. I may get emergency cloth diaper but I'm mainly sticking to disposables for their convenience for my partial fecal incontinence due to my IBS. Another word of advice I'd like is maybe some cheap sources to buy diapers from in bulk as well as other supplies, like wipes, powder, etc. Maybe some efficiency questions like baby vs adult wipes. Any suggestions?

As the title says I might already be incontinent to a degree. I am sure I am incontinent to enough of a degree where it would be more convenient to go with diapers 24/7 than without. I have something called Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) that seems to match the symptoms I experience. Usually bipolar bowels being constipated one moment then becoming too loose and urgent to hold comfortably the next. I have not yet seen a doctor about it yet but I am confident this what I have. My self diagnoses usually turn out to be right. I'm sure I could fix the constipation with a simple diet change but the looseness will likely still remain. that said, It's more convenient for me to just wear diapers and soil myself and get cleaned up my fiance/caregiver than struggle to hold it uncomfortably to reach a toilet or run to a toilet and get a shart or two off before I reach it. I remain convinced that diapers are my best bathroom option. Despite all of this, I want to wear 24/7 and achieve some degree of full incontinence on both ends anyway due to Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID) so in a funnily ironic way, this development only ends up helping me in the long run. Funny how things seem to fall into place like that.