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I think that is a pretty sensible imagining, although I think we are likely to "a medium-to-large subset of a very small subset." While there are massive practical difficulties in figuring out what percentage of the general population we make up (Pate & Gabbard, 2003), AB/DL communities in aggregate appear to represent a larger-than-the-individual-kink-average percentage of kink communities as a whole (Hawkinson & Zamboni, 2014). It surprised me, too! However, it does appear to be the case. Right now — Tuesday 16 November 2021, 12:32pm Australian Eastern Standard Time (UTC+10) — kali-is-an-abdl has exactly 3,811 followers. This is the largest audience I personally can reach on any social media platform, by a factor of about 2. I also feel like my AB/DL content has the strongest engagement out of any content I make. I actually believe that the way I currently blog is likely to limit the maximum potential size of my audience and slow the rate at which it grows. My style is grammatically and structurally complex writing using a lot of unfamiliar polysyllabic words, which decreases readability and thus engagement; I'm also not engaging in any strategies to maximise interaction (e.g. "Reblog this if..."). I am totally fine with this — I am not trying to maximise either audience size or growth rate; the way I make content now makes me happy, and I think it makes some other people happy too. The relevance is that if that belief is true, the "addressable market" might be much larger than figures from my blog suggest, because my audience share is smaller than the audience share that a hypothetical blog with the same topic but more readable content and intentional maximisation of engagement would have accumulated over the same period of time. My experience has been similar. I've known I was AB/DL since very early childhood — e.g., I am pretty sure I remember knowing it when I was 4. While I will never experience andropause, which seems to be what you're describing (Dimopoulou et al., 2016), feminising HRT is infamous for often killing libido stone dead (Coleman et al., 2017, p. 189), at least initially. It did for me, but, as in your case, my AB/DL aspect survived easily — which is great! I had had basically no continence for about 6 years before starting HRT, so if I had gotten to that point entirely on sex drive and then had the rug pulled from under me, that would have been a really hard thing to face. I personally think your assessment is astute; I think AB/DL interacts with sexuality but I don't believe it's fundamentally sexual. AB/DL is integral to my sexuality, in that in the very short window where I was both having sex and not spending all my time in diapers, I felt incredibly uncomfortable, and have only been able to feel comfortable with sex in the context of being, among other things, diapered full-time. However, if my sexuality went away I think my AB/DL aspect would remain. I cannot overstate how strongly I agree with this. In my life so far, there have been exactly two things about me that I have never been able to do anything to control: my gender, and this. I am a compulsive rule-follower but was not able to follow rules if they meant staying out of diapers. I had to deal with the intense psychological stress and social (immediate family) consequences of breaking rules, but wasn't able to use that stress to dissuade myself; the imperative was too strong. I definitely think it's possible that trans people are more comfortable being "out" in AB/DL communities because the environment is more transgressive of social norms. I'd like to say that the importance of the environment being transgressive is that people, engaging in transgression and not being hypocrites, don't police different forms of transgression by others. I'd like to say that. However, my experience has been that AB/DL communities are actually (slightly) disproportionately social-conservative and that people are not less likely to vocally attack marginalised people here than anywhere else. I think the reason trans folks are more comfortable being "out" in AB/DL communities, if they are, is that, even though people are no less likely to attack us here, their tactical and strategic advances are distinctly dampened compared to the "normal" public forum. It's not in a cisgender AB/DL's interest to join some sort of gender and sexuality normality crusade to hunt down trans people, when it's patently obvious that a crusade with that objective would turn on them the second the last trans person was driven out. In terms of societal expectations and nappies, I will say that being AB/DL actually prepared me surprisingly well for realising I was trans — I had to work over a lot of the same ground about bodily autonomy, morphological freedom and self-knowledge, so by the time I went "Oh shit, I'm a girl" in second quarter 2020, I'd already solved most of the problems in my head. Maybe one of the co-authors from those papers that BitterGrey co-authored might know somebody. References Coleman, E., Bockting, W., Botzer, M., Cohen-Kettenis, P., DeCuypere, G., ... & Zucker, K. (2012, August 27). Standards of care for the health of transsexual, transgender, and gender-nonconforming people, version 7. International Journal of Transgenderism, 13(4), 165-232. doi:10.1080/15532739.2011.700873. Dimopoulou, C., Ceausu, I., Depypere, H., Lambrinoudaki, I., Mueck, A., ... & Goulis, D.G. (2015, November 6). EMAS position statement: Testosterone replacement therapy in the aging male. Maturitas, 84, 94-99. doi:10.1016/j.maturitas.2015.11.003. Hawkinson, K., & Zamboni, B.D. (2014, January 29). Adult baby/diaper lovers: An exploratory study of an online community sample. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 43, 863-877. doi:10.1007/s10508-013-0241-7. Pate, J.E., & Gabbard, G.O. (2003, November 1). Adult baby syndrome. American Journal of Psychiatry, 160(11), 1932-1936. doi:10.1176/appi.ajp.160.11.1932.

Strong agree. I run a blog with a strong focus on learned incontinence (untraining) and I get a lot of credit for "explaining" how it works. The thing is, I'm not "explaining." I'm hypothesising from observation. I could be completely off the mark. A urological work-up of the kind you're talking about would be extremely helpful in calibrating my data and making sure my readers get accurate answers. I think for a lot of people there is a sexual element, but they are encouraged, by our community and by society at large, to extrapolate that to: "Oh, it's just a fetish." I don't think that's the case. I think that the sexual element is simply one viewing angle, one aspect, of something considerably deeper and not subject to being negotiated away by framing it as simply jack-off material. A quick tangent. I'm transgender. I don't think being trans and being in diapers are fundamentally similar; I think it would be dangerous to compare them. However, I have noticed with some amusement that a lot of discussions in the AB/DL—untrainer community tend to follow similar lines to discussions about the philosophy of transness, by complete coincidence. What you're working on here is a sort of parallel to the trans immutability problem. In its original form, the immutability problem reads as follows: In order to qualify for legal protection, a characteristic, such as gender identity, must be immutable. However, where does that put people who feel their gender identity has genuinely fundamentally changed to the one which is motivating them to transition? Why are gender identities which are identified in that way less valid than gender identities which have subjectively been present since birth? A parallel discourse seems to be taking shape here.

I spent a lot of time in diapers as a kid; I didn't get out of them in the first place until I was 7, and then a couple of years later I had to go back into them for a couple of years due to a separate continence episode. I am pretty much the only person in my entire extended family who has ever had any significant continence issues, so I knew I was unusual, but I also kind of assumed I was just contextually unusual within my family and that people like me were relatively common in the real world. I continued to feel that because when I got into primary school, at the first school I went to there was one other kid who was also in diapers (due to a condition which means she is quite likely still in diapers as an adult) and we tended to show up to get changed at about the same time, so since I knew there were at least two of us I figured that, again, it must be pretty common. I didn't actually realise that severe incontinence in childhood was unusual until I was probably 8 or 9. It sucked in that by the time I had to go back into diapers at 10/11 my awareness of what that meant was more than enough to make me feel embarrassed and awful in a way that really hurt, whereas previously everyone and everything that tried to make me conscious of my diapers had been on the outside of me, and I had felt pretty much apathetic and fine.

Yes, I had issues. I took a long time to get out of diapers, but I also had to go back into them a few years after leaving them due to a separate incontinence episode.

I wouldn't say my parents "treated me like a baby." I would say they treated me in a number of ways as if I was younger than I was, occasionally to the point of treating me similarly to a baby. I think the two are different. The reason I think the two are different is that I think to be "treated like a baby," not otherwise specified, would entail a broad, general positive (i.e. active, additive) offering or imposition of babylike things — counting blocks, stuffed animals, etc. — rather like what an AB might do for themself to make it easier or more comfortable to regress. My parents didn't do that. They were pretty happy to treat me appropriately for my age in terms of academic achievement, household responsibility, etc. Typically, they treated me like a baby by either: not preventing me from doing childish things which normal kids my age would have been taught not to do anymore; or subjecting me, or allowing me to be subjected, to rules that would be normal for babies and toddlers but not older kids who were my age. Important context is that I spent a huge part of my childhood without continence and in diapers, due to a very protracted precontinence (i.e. pre-toilet-training phase) and then a separate period of incontinence a couple of years later. Without that context, much of this would never have happened. However, I think if I had a kid and my kid had the same problems, I would avoid doing pretty much everything my parents did. Here are some of the more outré things I can think of. Fair warning that a lot of tea is going to be spilled which is extraneous to the diapers but which is vital to understanding my family. They didn't advocate for medical attention. At about 4yo, after a couple of separate toilet training failures, my parents took me to a paediatrician who assessed me as incontinent due to developmental delay. That's all well and good but then they just sort of treated it as a permanent fait accompli and didn't try to take any further action until my school put them in touch with a clinician when I was 6. Similarly, when my incontinence kicked in at 10, after a few paediatric consults they kind of pretty quickly assumed that it was going to be a permanent thing and stopped trying to fix it. I dunno if their approach here is objectively objectionable or neglectful, but it feels weird. They had weird ideas about modesty. Everyone is familiar with how parents let their toddlers wander about in a T-shirt and diapers. Typically that would stop at about 2 or 3. I was dressed that way most everywhere for the warm half of the year until I was about 4, and I was still dressed that way in most extended family private spaces and some public spaces right up until I left diapers. I have pretty much only ever seen 1 other person to whom this happened in my entire life. In my parents' defence, I think at least the "extended family" element of this may have been instigated by my extended family in an attempt to play some kind of weird power game. I am one of the few people in my extended family diagnosed autistic, and the only one I know of with any significant continence issues. I think my relatives liked to lord that over my parents and remind them of that. I very rarely got to change my own diapers. This is partly not directly my parents' fault. All told, I was wearing some form of incontinence protection through late third grade and from mid-sixth-grade through early-to-mid-ninth-grade. In that time, I went to one kindergarten, two primary schools, and one high school. Everyone except the high school had a blanket policy saying students with continence issues could not change their own diapers. The high school's policy was written in such a way that if I had been less severely incontinent and/or wearing lighter protection at the time of enrolment, I probably would have been able to change my own diapers, but I wasn't, so I wasn't. My parents' direct involvement was that I did not get to change my own diapers at home at all during my first stay in them. I got to do it very rarely during my second stay; essentially, if I needed a change between coming home from school and going to bed, I could handle that, but otherwise my parents handled any other changes not handled by the school. If I had still been in diapers at 13 I would have taken over responsibility for them then, but as it happened, by then I was in pull-ups, so I never needed to do that work or learn how to change cloth diapers. I am going to throw the responsibility for that part directly at my parents. Bitching at me about how difficult and disgusting it was to have to change my diapers, while not actually letting me learn to do it myself, was a dynamic that kept repeating itself in every other interaction we had right up until I broke off contact with them. They didn't help me maintain continence. During my second stay in diapers, I did have partial control which would have been strong enough to make it to the toilet under some circumstances. However, I was in traditional square cloth diapers. They are pretty much impossible to use as pull-ups, and because I didn't know how to change myself, I couldn't just take them off to use the toilet and then put them back on. As a result, in a lot of situations where I could have used the toilet and where it would arguably have been helpful for me to do so, I had no option but to use my diapers. — In practice, pretty much all of these things were kind of messed up and draining to experience, and I'm still carrying a fair amount of resentment about them.

Brahms' "Wiegenlied" ("Lullaby") for voice and piano, Op. 49, No. 4 (1868). I heard it when I was a little kid, like everyone else. When I grew up and became a trained musician, I got to sing it. I used to think it was cloying and silly, but now, for me, it kind of links the comforting parts of my childhood and the comforting parts of my adulthood. "You Are My Sunshine" also has a special place in my heart. It's not really my favourite lullaby; it was sung to me as a lullaby when I was a kid, but these days I use it to express affection and love to other adults to whom I am very close.

Yes, mostly during my second stay in diapers. I was developmentally delayed, so I didn't start moving out of pre-continence (the "pre-toilet-training" phase that most people have finished by 3yo) until I was about 7yo. That was my first stay in diapers. I had to go back into diapers a couple of years later, from about 11 to 12 years old, because I developed new continence issues; that was my second stay. My incontinence during my second stay was different from my precontinence during my first stay. I had some vestigial continence that I could have used to reach the toilet in some situations, but I didn't have enough control to spend any significant amount of time out of diapers, so I didn't; I was simply in diapers the whole time. When I started developing incontinence at 11, my family assumed, for various reasons, that it was a direct follow-on from my previous issues getting out of diapers, and that it was probably going to be permanent. Consequently, I went back into cloth diapers. I didn't know how to change myself because it wasn't something I was in charge of doing; I was supposed to take over changing them when I was 13, but by that point, as it turned out, I was well on my way back out of diapers, so it never became relevant. If you're familiar with traditional square cloth diapers you will be aware that if fitted properly they can't really be pulled up and down, and I didn't have the dexterity or expertise to change out of and then back into them. Consequently, the fact that I had enough control to sometimes make it to the toilet was irrelevant because my diapering didn't work in a way that would allow me to do so. I could have asked, but by that time my relationship with my family was already bad enough that I was kind of afraid of bothering them, so I mostly just shrugged and kept my head down and didn't bother using the small amount of control I had.

Size 5-6. The kind of 2-year-old where they start dressing them up like little adults, not least because in my real life that phase continued for me until I was literally 7.

I originally started my current stay in diapers on a part-time basis in mid-2012 out of a combination of "genuinely scared about minor UI issues I was having" and "in denial about how much of an AB/DL I was." I'm now in diapers for two reasons. The one that's most important to me is that I'm an AB/DL and that I like them. Realistically, the one that's most important is that I've been completely incontinent for years and can't leave them, so really it's lucky that I'm an AB/DL who likes them.

Because you're talking in the present tense I'm going to answer only regarding my current stay in diapers since late 2012. I started messing my diapers in early 2013, at which point I was in disposables. In early-to-mid 2014, when I realised I wasn't getting out of diapers anytime soon, I switched to full-time cloth. In early 2016, I switched back because it was getting too complex and labour-intensive to deal with cloth diapers, and I was sick of messy diaper laundry. I still do use cloth diapers for a considerable number of things, but disposables are my backbone and standby. I don't have the visceral "OH GOD OH FUCK" aversion that I had the first couple of times I voluntarily filled my diapers; I don't experience distress or paralytic anxiety any more. My state of mind does change into a sort of "highly caffeinated intense concentration" mode, which isn't unpleasant, but is also really tiring; it's the kind of thing where you sort of forget to breathe during. I prefer disposable diapers partly because the diaper is off, bagged, and disposed of within 30 seconds; many of my cloth diapers take 1 min+ to get off, are fiddly to handle, difficult to bag, and can threaten me from within the bag for literally hours, so I never get to calm down or relax. I have managed the smell by adapting my dietary choices, which has actually been a blessing because the dramatic change helped me get more in touch with my body and how my GI health was affecting it. At this point, I'm in dirty cloth diapers so rarely that I don't have a proper process. Last time I was in one, I was living in a house that had a removable showerhead, so I got in the shower and used the removable showerhead as a makeshift diaper sprayer, then immediately chucked my diapers in the washing machine. I imagine I would do something similar here but I have no incentive to do so at the moment.

I'd enjoy being breastfed. I don't really know why. I'd just like it.

I graduated from training pants twice (2002 and 2008) and flunked twice (2012 and 2015). I definitely don't have a choice other than diapers right now and realistically it's not likely I will over any timescale, but that's okay. I prefer diapers anyway.

A lot of threads in this forum are, quite rightly, one of two things: well-written, detailed journals of what is happening, or questions about how to make a thing happen. I am looking for something else here. I am soliciting the answers of people who are currently either or both of the following: 24/7 — wearing diapers full-time, to the near-exclusion or exclusion of underwear untraining — deliberately either actively pursuing or passively allowing the weakening of their continence, and/or currently incontinent (in any aspect and to any degree) primarily as a result of doing so I am looking for your input on a range of questions, which all fundamentally boil down to: What has happened? If you are wearing 24/7: Under what circumstances did you decide to go into diapers 24/7? How long have you been in diapers? Do you still own any underwear? If not, how long has it been since you owned underwear? Do you use your diapers and the toilet, or do you use your diapers exclusively? Since starting 24/7, have you had to make changes or improvements in response to practical pressures you didn't foresee? e.g., switching diaper brands, changing up your wardrobe, etc.? Are there any circumstances under which you would definitely leave diapers? Do you think you could easily leave diapers immediately, assuming for some reason you had to? For people who aren't untraining, have you had to deal with unexpected continence loss regardless? If you are untraining: How long have you been untraining? How is your control right now? If you haven't yet reached your untraining goals, what are they? Did you have any continence issues before you started untraining? If so, do you think they were a factor in your decision? If your control now is definitely worse than it was when you started untraining, how does that feel? For example, if you never had bedwetting or fear wetting or messing accidents before and you have them now, how do you feel, or how have you felt, about it? Do you want to regain lost continence? Have you tried to regain lost continence? How did it go? Is your incontinence in your medical records? If you're comfortable sharing, how is it described? Do you think that if you tried, you would be able to leave diapers over any timescale? None of these questions are mandatory — they're stimulus questions, designed to give you something to think about to reduce the mental effort of writing a post. They are also not limits; please feel free to include any other information you want. I am really looking forward to hearing what you have to say!

During childhood, I spent two separate periods of several years (-8, 11-14) wearing diapers for severe continence issues. I don't think I ever deliberately used my diapers the first time around; I didn't have enough control to. The second time around, I had total FI and severe UI. Again, I never deliberately filled my diapers, because I had pretty much no choice when I filled my diapers. With the UI, I had about 40,000 things that would trigger wetting accidents, really poor awareness of my bladder (so I would wet myself if I wasn't paying attention), and scattered episodes of UI, but between all that I did have episodes where I could voluntarily pee (in small amounts, because my body was so busy having accidents instead). I did go in my diapers, even though I had by this point been previously continent, and was aware that if you were gonna consciously pee you were sort of expected to do it in the toilet. There were a couple of factors that went into that. One was that, as you suggested, I preferred to play video games instead. Another was that my family had kind of accepted it was going to be permanent (long story — it wasn't), so I wasn't under a lot of pressure to use the toilet (I was under pressure to start changing my own diapers instead). Yet another was that I was in square cloth diapers at the time, which unlike disposable diapers really aren't interoperable with toilets at all. The final factor was basically that even though my family was aware I had occasional control, it wasn't actually enough to be meaningful? Like I was still so severely incontinent that it wasn't as if I could even upgrade to training pants. Occasionally having a small amount of control was a nice party trick but not significant. So I guess that's my story all about how...

Thank you for the compliment. I have forgotten how to relate to other human beings any other way than writing essays at them, as my post history here and on ADISC reflects. It is indeed APA style. I grew up with APA 6 style; now we have APA 7. I amar prestar aen; han matho me nen.

Yep! In my case I think it's probably that with the time I spent diapered as a kid plus the time I've spent diapered as an adult, I've now spent close to two-thirds of my life in diapers. Being toilet trained is nowhere near normal for me.

Yeah, that's a familiar feeling. I started wearing full-time in mid-2012. I started voluntarily messing in early 2013 and I was definitely having difficulty with messing control by late 2013. Wet diapers are nice; wetting accidents were a little intimidating at first, even for me who'd spent long episodes diapered for incontinence before; but when you start unexpectedly filling your diapers that's when you really start thanking God. It would make sense. Metformin can cause GI side effects, including flatulence and diarrhoea, and it's more likely to cause those effects than other similar medications are (Bolen et al., 2007). It usually happens either when you start metformin or increase the dosage (Aungst, 2021). If you are taking any anticholinergic (prominently including bupropion, clozapine, diphenhydramine, paroxetine, quetiapine, scopolamine, or any tricyclic antidepressant), or cephalexin (an antibiotic), or cimetidine (an H2 antihistamine), all of those may boost the GI effects of metformin (Somogyi et al., 1987; Jayasegar et al., 2002; May & Schindler, 2016). It should! Worth noting, though, that there is a small chance it may not (Fujita & Inagaki, 2017). This is absolutely correct and if it's okay I'd like to provide some context. Multiple sugar substitutes can cause diarrhoea, including allulose (Hossain et al., 2015), found in figs, maple syrup, and other sugar substitutes; it impairs carbohydrate absorption, causing the carbohydrates to ferment in the intestine and potentially causing diarrhoea many sugar alcohols (Mäkinen, 2016), specifically including erythritol, isomalt, lactitol, mannitol, sorbitol, and xylitol (Grimble et al., 1988; Ruskoné-Fourmestraux et al., 2003; Storey et al., 2006; Mäkinen, op. cit.; Panoff, 2020), typically found in sugar-free candies, cookies and chewing gums (Ghosh & Sudha, 2012); they draw water into the colon, so they essentially work the same way as glycerin (Hallens) or polyethylene glycol/macrogol (Miralax, Movicol), and sorbitol in particular is occasionally actually prescribed for that purpose The reason I felt it was necessary to citation-bomb this topic was because I know "artificial sweeteners do x" is often silently dismissed as a conspiracy theory because of all the things that aspartame is supposed to do but doesn't. 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Yep. I use a barrier cream containing zinc oxide. The barrier cream functions as a layer to prevent moisture from reaching my skin, which is good because immersion in even pure water (without even considering chemical irritants) breaks down the skin and makes it softer. In this case, the barrier cream also reduces the degree to which chemical irritants reach my skin. The zinc oxide component specifically is an anti-bacterial and anti-inflammatory which promotes healing of minor skin wounds. I tend to apply it over my diaper area and slightly outside it, onto my upper thighs in areas that are otherwise liable to be chafed by the diaper leg holes. It has a similarly protective effect there.

It did, yeah. I think to an extent, compressing the need to be in diapers 24/7 forced it to express itself through my sexuality. Indulging it removed that and just made it a normal and commonplace part of my life. It's still a bit sexual, but not much.

Typically a onesie or a T-shirt; pyjama pants when my roommate is home. I tend to minimise the amount of clothing I wear over my diaper whenever possible because I hate having to do unnecessary extra laundry in the event of a leak.

Yes. Not by choice; all of my AB/DL stuff is in my walk-in closet, but the closet doesn't have any doors on it.

I know my answer is essentially the equivalent of clicking "see results" on a Twitter poll, but I haven't been out of diapers since the start of 2013, so... not very

At my home in Queensland, Australia. I don't remember the event; I only remember watching the cleanup on the news and thinking about how long it had been going for.

Funnily enough, I am actually the only person in my extended family with any significant degree of incontinence, including bedwetting as far as I know. That said, I don't talk to my birth extended family anymore so it's possible matters have developed since my estrangement.

I wear full-time, not by choice, so I wait until I'm as close to soaked as I can reliably get without leaking. Consequently, I spend most of my time in moderately to heavily wet diapers, simply because that's the nature of things.