Rachel Emily

Yes. I consider it one of those things that's better fantasized about than actually done.

Though I do concede the OP is right when it comes to pollen, bugs and the like, I'll still take summer over winter where I live (I'm in the midwest of the U.S.)

Nor do I, since I wear them as much for urge incontinence as I do for enjoyment. However, I've had situations in which I was unable to hide my pacifier from the home-health people who come in, so I've told a few of them about it. So far, no negative reaction.

Everyone who knows me knows I wear diapers--I've never kept that a secret. But only in recent years have I started to tell people that I enjoy wearing them as well. I've told maybe six or seven people in the last twenty years, most of whom were doctors or counselors. Or maybe I should say six or seven living people. I told my mother I was a DL about six months before she died--I explained precisely what ABs and DLs were, and directed her to the relevant web pages to learn more. (I think Bitter Grey's page was one--If you're going to tell a family member, that's the page to send them to). Why I chose that particular time to tell her, I don't know. It was as if in the back of my mind I knew she wouldn't be here long, I suppose, though her death was sudden and a total shock. (Cancer that she never told me she had). She deserved to know all about me, about the things I did she thought were weird at the time, such as why I so suddenly and enthusiastically embraced diapers when I began having accidents some twenty years ago. At the time she'd ascribed it to "laziness" on my part, that I was too lazy to go to the toilet. I could do nothing then but grit my teeth and keep silent. Now she knew, and to my surprise, she was very nonchalant about it. They were just another kind of underwear, she said, and why should she get worked up over underwear? I felt at that moment as though a tremendous weight had been lifted off of me.

I've worn off and on for the last twenty years--the past eight years, 24/7--so I have no self-consciousness about wearing in public. But then, being disabled definitely has its perks. Should anyone see I have a diaper on (not that I make it obvious, but just in case) they'll automatically make the assumption that my disability has something to do with my incontinence. And they'd be correct, though other factors contribute to it as well.

I'm in cloth this morning and am a good deal happier, and more comfortable, than the other day.

I don't know--I didn't think, "Damn it! They're making fun of us ABs again!" when I saw that cartoon myself. In fact, I've seen it on other sites in other contexts and find it quite funny. As to being weird, I fully acknowledge that, but it's the benign kind rather than the "dangerous creepy psychopath" kind. There ought to be more of the benign kind of weird out there, in fact.

Sometimes the right powder can help as well. I've never found one that did more to clear up rashes than Ammens powder--the only downside is the price. It's quite expensive.

It's evolved into more of a comfort thing for me as well. Thanks to the hormones I take, my sex drive is greatly diminished, so the diapers are less a sexual object than a transitional one. No different from my pacifier or my stuffed animals. In a way, being freed from the sexual attraction to diapers has allowed me to explore new areas, and venture more deeply into AB territory than I might have twenty years ago.

Hi Kenta--if you're a little boy, I guess you don't wanna play dolls, huh?

Ah, yes. THE question--"why?" I've tried to solve that one since childhood, and I

At the time, I wet mainly when I was sitting in my wheelchair, but didn't do it often lying down. The diapers were mainly a "just in case" measure. I can only guess that gravity took hold once I got in the chair. These days I don't think a urinal would work for me, either, since I wet in whatever position I happen to be in.

Attends with double tapes on the sides, and...ditto. Yes, Attends are lousy, but that's what my insurance pays for....

I've been through this twice since I became incontinent, and each time they gave me a urinal rather than put me in diapers. I detest urinals because I find it hard to urinate in them without spilling the contents all over my sheets. When I told them I preferred using diapers, they didn't give me any trouble--I got my diapers. But yeah, I do wish could have brought my own from home--since my hospital stays were unexpected (both because of serious injuries) there was no way I could plan ahead like some of the people here.

If it isn't already too late to resurrect this thread....

Nothing conclusive at this point, since as I said I already have an overbite. I've noticed that one of my upper teeth continually nicks a spot on my lower lip when I'm eating or talking, and that seems to have started rather recently. But I haven't had the pacifier long enough to know whether it's causing any problems.

I didn't see any references to this subject when I did a search on it, but it's entirely possible I missed something, so profuse apologies if this subject has indeed been covered.