What are we fighting for? When you ask most ABs what they want chances are they'll say its 'acceptence'. It doesn't seem to me that you can actually pin point one goal in this greater fight for acceptence, except that they want to be 'accepted'. There are different forms of acceptence and no one seems to know what it is exactly. Is it acceptence that we wear diapers? I think most people accept that. Perhaps they don't agree with it but they accept it. Acceptence in terms of laws to protect us?
I don't see this as the same fight that took place for gay rights. There's a huge difference. Being an adult baby is a lot different than being gay. For example; If a bus driver is gay s/he can be gay and still perform their job as a bus driver. An adult baby is not your character it is a behavior. It's more equivilent to being a smoker. If you smoke than that is something you choose to do regardless of the addiction aspect. You are not born a smoker and although some would argue that you are not born gay either being gay is part of your sexual identity. Either way you don't classify someone by whether or they smoke. You would probably be hard pressed to find a smoker who doesn't wish they could go into work and smoke in their office. Or smoke on the bus ride home, or smoke while doing their shopping. Even when you allow these freedoms to take place it still doesn't mean you are accepted.
"America is leading the world in being more accepting of 'kink' and alternative lifestyles"
I think its only in America that you have a fight to begin with. Most European countries are pretty open to the diversity of sexual expression.
Even if you make a smaller goal of just gaining awareness it doesn't guarntee acceptence. I'm pretty sure people are aware of us. Helping them to understand that we don't mean any harm, and that we are decent people who want to contribute to society is totally different. I don't think we'll ever get there if all people see is a bunch of people dressed in baby outfits talking like toddlers and using diapers. A lot of AB's can't even laugh at themselves. In reality we are the one's who are not accepting. We can't see or accept that it really looks silly when you are an adult who wears diapers and dresses like a child. I don't think a greater understanding of ABs or DLs can come about until we work on the way we preceive ourselves. If we can not see ourselves for what we are and then accept it and understand the way people are seeing us, then we have no hope for anyone from the outside changing how they feel about it.