Karla.littlegirl

Just been reading through what people have been saying and for a start things are massively different these days from those of my youth. Things are a lot more open now and more accepting to a certain degree, I have done quite a lot out in public dressed as a little girl and yes diapered although not on full view to everyone. On the whole people that I have met out are generally ok with who I am and every now and then you even talk to someone that really gets where I am coming from. Of course you will also run into people that will ridicule anything that is perceived to slightly different and you just have to ignore that side of things, but it is the nature of things to remember the bad things and not the good. If, like I did, you go out in the public eye you have to accept what people are going to say to you, good or bad. I would rather just try to get into little space and be myself but if I am honest you cannot be that relaxed and off guard when out in public. I found myself thinking "what if" all the time and always had an escape route planned. I think what slowed down my public exposure was the increase of social media. Instead of people asking questions and wanting to know me it became more of take a picture with the freak and post it straight away. I know my partner developed a fear of exposure and ridicule although I am not so worried I had to take on her concerns. I have only ever had online exposure as a little girl and have kept my adult male side away from any online and social media exposure but I do become more fearful that the facial recognition stuff will one day link my boy side from other people's posts and my girl side together. I do agree with Elfy that there has been several TV shows that try to portray our lifestyle but they mostly, but not all, try to sensationalise what we are. I have been contacted in the past to do such a program and have declined because I do not think we are portrayed in a good light, because showing us as normal people does not get viewers. If you want to walk down the road in a diaper and pretty dress, you can do it, I have. But you are at the mercy of the world if you do and have to accept the view they will take and have no say in that. Would I like a world where I could be the true me and not get judged for it, of course but I am pretty sure we are not close to it yet. hugs Karla