I originally posted this on ADISC just a couple hours ago.
As a straight person, you'd think I would feel normal and safe for being under the norms of society over not being a sexual minority. However, I've proven that to be wrong, solely because of my diaper fetish. Over the past couple of months, I keep seeing news reports of several Target stores and other corporations being threatened by homophobes for being "woke", all because they don't put up with their backward views. However, what I've noticed is that it's generally accepted for these people to get scolded for trying to hurt LGBTQ people for existing. Especially when it comes to straight LGBTQ allies.
Compared to ABDLs however, we don't get as much support from those people whenever bigots say that we're disgusting individuals and/or pedophiles. It's really difficult for me to know why society still has these views when we have existed for many years, though not as much as the LGBTQ community when it comes to historical records. Yet, people only claim we don't deserve that much support because we're viewed as part of a fetish. Words can't describe how my ABDLism has affected me personally, at least since I started puberty. So I feel heartbroken to say we're the kind of people that others usually see on DeviantArt and cringe at us. Some of whom expressed to us that we should be cured or get obliterated.
The one thing that I worry about every day is if I'll get arrested for being an ABDL/babyfur, since there are people out there who think I'm a pedo/zoophile. Especially with how I like art from ABDL/babyfur artists that involve fictional characters wearing diapers. I just want to clarify that my fantasies involving this only dwells on wanting to be a baby again. I worry that the popular opinion would convince them that I'm less of a human being, solely because I like diapers. Whenever I talk about these certain things with other people, whether it be other ABDL communities or therapists, they often tell me that I shouldn't think about these people and that I take way too much credit for strangers on the Internet. The key problem to this notion is that I don't have IRL friends that I can rely for support with being an ABDL/babyfur. So if this comes out in real life with my real name, my life will be ruined.
Another problem with this situation is that I can't make friends without thinking they'll scowl at me for being an ABDL. So it's just difficult for me to go outside and hang out with people when I'm this weirdo who likes diapers. Especially when I've told a group before that I like diapers and I couldn't help but be reminded that they weren't very tolerant of me when I mentioned it. Me being banned from the group just reminds me that I probably won't get the chance of being liked without hiding it, which is difficult for me aside from just playing cool with talking to people on the Internet. It doesn't help that I'm like this because I didn't get any support from either my therapists or my friends. One incident happened where I talked to a random person on Skype when I was 15, where he asked me if I'm a sexual deviant or pedophile and recorded my voice onto a video where it stayed on YouTube for 2 years before getting deleted.
What I want from all of this is more personal support, especially as I would be devastated when my mom dies. I don't know if I'll be grateful with moving anywhere else, if people are just going to be bigoted against my ABDLism regardless of political beliefs. It doesn't help that I live in an area of NYC (Staten Island) where people are noticeably conservative, though not as backward as states like Texas or Florida. If I could just get that, then maybe I would be more okay with being anywhere in the world without being confined in my home. I just hate seeing this stuff as taboo that we can't talk about in our personal lives, even though this form of hiding isn't benefiting me.