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I didn't know what to make of Sarah and Emilia's dad. Up to this point, I assumed they were full sisters. I just could never conceive of a way that Sarah would have no reference to her dad. FTR- from a narrative standpoint, I think the way her father was disclosed worked out for the best. Up until this point, it didn't matter that Emilia was a half-sister. As a reader, we didn't need to know that Emilia and Sarah were half-sisters. I think it might have distracted from the story because Sarah didn't think of Emilia that way. I'm wondering how you will address the relationship between Emilia and Sarah in the sequel. At that point Emilia will be 9 or 10. There is a pediatrician who wrote that the 'empathy' of 8-year-old girls is oh so heartwarming, but Emilia would likely have only vague memories of the two months of being her big sister's big sister. PS- I hope that you let us see Mom get arrested when you write the screenplay. I also want to see the interrogation where the good cop asked, "WHY?"

This is why the Hollywood ending is better. We know that real life, especially for foster kids SUCKS! However, I know that teachers adopting in similar situations does happen, and at least in the one case, I know of- a good outcome. The girls both graduated from college and are still a part of the family. That part didn't catch me as strange. I don't pay attention to stuff like that at my school, but I'm almost certain that we have a gaming club. I had kids play GTA when I taught middle school, so it's not like they are unfamiliar with those games. It is just my opinion as a high school teacher, but I don't think it's a good idea to coddle teenagers. They have 4 years to become an adult, and they have a long way to go. My question of the day was: What is the best part of being an adult? Two said driving. Two said they didn't know anything good about being an adult (one will turn 18 in a few months- which scared me). Only two answered with "I can do what I want to do." I know the decision dominated the end of this chapter, but I can just imagine what the doctor was thinking when he learned that Sarah had mostly eaten baby food for two months. It's not a medical condition, it's because your stomach doesn't know how to handle chicken nuggets, especially with sauce on it.

Great Chapter. and boy is that a tough decision The poor girl has a long way to go and needs a lot of time. There are so many questions. I'm glad Emilia has a family to go to, and a 3-year-old would transition to her father's family fairly quickly. She will love being an actual big sister, and there won't be much of a gap. Emilia wouldn't recognize that she was treated as the golden child, but Sarah might have some hidden resentment. She has two choices because a group home would be brutal, and no chance of getting adopted. The Higgins could give her a home, and there is a support structure in her house. It wouldn't mean that Sarah would totally abandon Emilia. She would be able to visit her from time to time, especially after she is college. There is a life bond between Sarah and Lisa. I don't think Sarah quite sees that she was worth being saved, but she will realize that Mom tried to destroy her life. Just FTR- this was all because Sarah bought herself some Pull-ups to keep herself from wetting her pants! I spent the last last three years screaming "Sarah, tell somebody what is going on, Please!" Now it is, "Sarah, your mom turned you into a baby for two months because you bought yourself some Pull-ups to cover up incontinence. You know that there is a medical reason that you peed your pants."

@MinnesotaWriter has confirmed that he was influenced by Redemption, which touches on that theme. I don't think mine comes from trauma, because I had it before my mom passed away. But my push got a lot stronger after my mom died. Others among us can trace their push to trauma, so we know that can happen. I'm going to assume that the four will be reconnected, which I think is a good thing for Sarah. I don't know enough about Samantha, but I wonder how the three will react to each other. I think there is a reason MW went through the whole sleepover narrative.

I can't answer the second one yet, but I'll have some good insight when I get back in July. I'm taking a tour, so I have a guide that should help with research. For me- Hiroshima was the non-negotiable. I haven't seen much about Nagasaki. It's a smaller city and not very close to Tokyo. If you remind me, I'll give you the rundown when I get back. I've traveled enough overseas that I don't think the onesies and diapers will cause much concern. I can't remember the last time I had my bag examined in customs.

You hit on the real tragedy, and that has to be what Sarah is thinking at the point where we are in the story, which is sleeping in a hospital room likely 4 hours after being rescued from her crib. She probably isn't thinking of school. She is smart enough to know that her mom won't be part of her life. Does she want to see Lisa, Desi, and Samantha? You're right about teenagers. I witness it every day, most teens are empathetic, wonderful young men and women. One-on-one, they are great. They just don't want to be the runt when they are in a group and can be ruthless. FTR- adults can be jerks as well, and they have the benefit of experience. Trust me, the worst kid ain't got nothing on a power-hungry adult. it's a huge testament that we are trying to think this through as though Sarah is a real person, and not just a character in a story. Sadly, it's a real situation. I don't think there has ever been a case in which an able-bodied teenager was kept as an infant by a sadistic mother (serious- changing poopy diapers every four hours to prove a point😬). The real-life cases are worse than what @MinnesotaWriter wrote.

Returning to another school wouldn't necessarily be a problem. I don't know if they would give her another name, but that is common in cases where a long-term kidnapping victim is saved. The media wouldn't identify Sarah, especially because she is still alive. However, the details of how she was found would be presented, especially if there is a trail. If there is a trail, the media will also release Mom's name. They also would likely identify which part of town where Sarah was found. Students would know that the person found in a soiled diaper would be a student at their school. Social Media is a bitch for cases like this because all it takes is one kid to realize that Sarah's sudden departure from school coincided with the timing of the abuse, and now she is no longer living with her mother. Especially if somebody realized that Sarah needed diapers or Pull-ups. If she returns to the school, she will be asked where she was and what happened, and I don't think that would be best for Sarah.

My trip this year is 3 weeks in Japan. I don't think I can carry enough diapers with me to make it through the 3 weeks, so I might need to buy some in Japan while I'm there. Where can you buy adult diapers in Japan?

MW posted the remainder of this chapter on Wattpad today and shared that this story now has over 200,000 words. I looked up the lengths of novels and it's longer than all but one of the Harry Potty books. That's impressive. PS- The writing is stronger as well, but that's just my opinion.

We've already speculated on the chances that she return to her High School. If this were real life, it would be viral. My school is huge, and students would still figure out who she was. That would be a nightmare for Sarah because kids are a-holes. Of course, we know from real-life examples, that adults are a-holes as well. I think the 4 girls have a solid friend group, especially after their experience at the sleepover. If one of the girls reported it, there would be a life bond between them Question: how long would the mom have followed through with this? The Austrian dude kept his daughter in a dungeon for 20+ years.

You've meshed out a great narrative. Some side plots didn't seem to advance the plot and ultimately played a bigger role than I thought at the time. Even your Red Herring with the whole Claire thing advances the plot. The Sleepover/Black Friday bit seemed like a Red Herring, but I think Samantha's discovery played a role in Sarah's brainwashing FTR- I don't think it would make sense for both families to be related because there isn't much in common between the two women. Hospital food would be the first step. Healthy 15-year-olds don't poop much more than once a day. Did mom come by at lunch to feed and change Sarah, as she promised, or did Sarah stay in her poopy diaper from when Mom left to when she came back from work? I can wager a guess, but I'm not 100% certain. An anonymous tip doesn't meet mandated reporter requirements. There is no way that anybody would any known the truth. Lisa might have sensed something was going on after the weird exchange at the mall, especially if she noticed that Sarah was in a diaper. But it took two months for CPS to act. Maybe that's what it took for Lisa to say before she could somebody to act on it. Lisa was physically locked in a room and had to hide in a closet because her mom was going to beat her with a tire iron. I don't think she was fed regularly either. PS- the release of this chapter was 2nd best thing to happen to me today. Until 5 o'clock, this was a hard win, but then I sent myself into timeout because I was whining too much. Things looked a lot better after I came out of time-out😁 For non-American Football Fans, I'm a big football fan and I live in the SF Bay Area.

None of those articles say that the average age is five, and there usually are clickbait stories. I've read a lot of hearsay, which is how that stupid litter box in schools rumor got started. I think that the median age for potty training is higher than the average. There is just no way that the average age of potty training in the UK is 5. Based on reading the articles that haven't been shared, it sounds like 5-10% of the kids in Kindergarten are not potty trained, but they don't define what that is. Is a kid who wears Pull-ups and wets twice a week considered potty trained?

She did pick up Emilia. She wasn't going to get Sarah. Once they witnessed what they saw, and rescued Sarah, mom couldn't touch her. I don't think they would use a lot of resources to find her if Emilia was safe. But I think they would put out an Amber Alert to save Emilia. I've thought about Lisa's mom and Sarah's mom being related, but it is a Breaking Bad-type coincidence, which doesn't seem to be @MinnesotaWriter style. I don't know where Mom could go on the run, because it takes a lot of skill to run away from the law now. They can ping your cell phone. They can track your credit purchases. She goes to a hotel, and they'll know where she is. She can't go to her job, and can't go to her house. I'm not sure what the legal ramifications are for her running, but it destroys a defense that she could theoretically. Legally, her best move once she noticed the activity on the nanny cam would be to call a defense lawyer and come clean with the lawyer. I keep thinking about what the CPS, LE, and medical personnel would be thinking as they help Sarah. Amanda expected a physically restrained, malnourished child, and might have expected some kind of restraints. In most cases that I've heard, if they are diapers- they aren't changed. Sarah appeared to be fed and cared for, which takes a lot of effort. I'm sure Sarah's skin is in bad shape because she has to stay in messy diapers so long, but she was changed and bathed somewhat regularly. She was fed, which takes a lot of effort. I asked this last chapter, but what happens when somebody has an exclusive diet of baby food for two months? I don't think it would be good for an adult.

The cop was a bit of a prick. I hope that they take the investigation and put an APB out for Mom and there already is an Amber Alert issued. She is doing great since she has only been out of the crib for about five hours. The fact that Mom ran is a sign that Mom knew she was wrong. If they know the license plate, she is in trouble. We talked about Mom monitoring the nanny came, but they will send alerts to your phone is there is movement. Depending on how far Mom was from their house, Sarah might not have been able to make it very far if she had tried to escape. The sad part is that she got so brainwashed that she wasn't going to leave. I don't think it's even worthwhile to encourage Sarah to use the toilet. I think the key is to help her gain independence and get her past the mindset that she chose her fate. I think she is getting there. I highly recommend reading Diapers Never Lie. There is so much in that story that parallels what happened here, and Lisa could be a big part of Sarah's recovery.

That story is still in the development stage. I don't start posting until I complete the narrative, so I'm thinking I'll start publishing in June. Real life, especially that job thing takes a lot of time out of my editing.

You do understand your leap of faith, right? You are comparing a surgery that is performed on millions of men and women to a surgery that you need to find a single surgeon who practices in a country with limited regulations. Vasectomies' are 99% successful and about 95% of the surgeries have no complications. It is safe, and the outcome is that you can f*ck as much as you want without worrying about getting a shot past the goalie. You can do all the mental gymnastics you want, but it's not in any way self-harm. Tubal ligation has far more complications and the reversal is very complicated. But, have you read how many doctors won't perform that surgery on childless women of child-bearing age? I know this: I have 4 doctors in my life who would physically try to stop me from traveling to Mexico. I'm in the minority on this thread, so take their advice if you think I'm just being an intolerant AH.

I've not seen any source that confirms that 5-year-old age. I saw this: How Long Does it Take to Potty Train? It says 2.5, which is probably young.

I originally had my character at 4'9" and then I looked up the rules for California. I cut an inch of his height so that I could have his mom make him sit in a booster chair (FTR- it's a specially made booster chair that acts more like a car seat). When he complains about it, the mom replies, "The physics won't know how old you are, so you need the booster seat." This story is written by somebody who is in the beginning stages of story writing. I think story writing is a skill that you need to practice and one of the hardest is to create a universe where the plot is feasible. That is especially true when the genre is ABDL. As I read the story, I could see @adventurekido growing as an author, and addressing some of the flaws, but sometimes we just have to overlook the flaw and accept the story as written. BTW- that is not just true in amateur fiction writing. In one of my favorite movies of all time, Raiders of the Lost Ark, the protagonist plays no role in the outcome of the story. In Independence Day, we have to believe alien technology and a 1996 computer are compatible, when a 1996 computer isn't compatible with a 2024 computer. We also have to believe that Will Smith can operate a spaceship that he has never seen and was independently created, and somehow manage to dock it with another ship that he has never seen and has no idea how they dock the ship.

This sadly happens all too frequently in diaper stories. Frequently the suspension of belief is quite a bit. I'm currently writing a story where the main character is an adult male 4'8" (chosen because children under 4'9" are required to be in a booster seat if under 9). He has a growth hormone deficiency (which is a thing) and never went through puberty (also a real thing). However, the size puts him near the same size as a 10-year-old, so the challenge is to explain why an 8-year-old is diapers.

This story would not work as well if it were in the third person. There is something about being restricted to Sarah's perspective that works. However, I'm looking forward to the interrogation scene when @MinnesotaWriter writes the screenplay for the movie version.

That might be true, but I don't think we will get to learn about mom's motives in this story. It's written from Sarah's perspective, and MW has done a great job making this story believable. Short of including any testimony, I don't think Sarah will learn much about her mother's motives.

I reread the examination, and it is so realistic. Jane is peeling the onion with this patient who was found an hour before in a crib with a soiled diaper, and gets her in a realistic way to open up and share the horrific abuse she suffered, along with likely cause for her incontinence. Add in a bit of comfort that a doctor could need Pull-ups. Amazing! I don't want to turn this into an anti-foster system discussion, but the reality Sucks. I hope MW doesn't go for a full reality of what Sarah may face when she becomes a foster child. I hope she doesn't suffer the fate that the Turpin children went through.

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That's a big question for me as well. I wonder how Sarah will feel Emilia as she processes what happened. That diapers=baby mentality is deeply ingrained in both of them, and Emilia seemed to relish the idea of being the big sister. However, Sarah is so perceptive that I think she will understand that Emilia was just a pawn, just as she was when Emilia was struggling with potty training. PS- I just re-read up to chapter 10, and Mom is a bitch. She was a terrible mother who gaslit Sarah at every opportunity. Sarah has been under her thumb for 15 years.

In real life, Sarah would have no issues making up the classes, but there doesn't need to be a rush to get her back in school. She could start in June at summer school, and then be fully back by fall. We can get very creative when we need to get kids credits. She could easily graduate with her class, and with honors. She is on her own for college, which will suck. I have no idea how they would handle her guardianship. I would hope that she would go to a nurturing foster situation, but sadly that's not always the case. However, I would ask for her school to assess Sarah.