Taking An Academic Ab/Dl Survey

[Inky_Wonky]

I recently took this survey from another website and thought I’d share this with others so that they could as well. Brian Zamboni is a therapist at the University of Minnesota. He specializes in sexuality. He has a survey that he is trying to obtain via the internet regarding the AB/DL community. Some of you may have heard of Bittergrey (http:understanding.infantilism.org/) who helped Brian in putting together

this survey. Brian is asking that his survey be made available for as many AB/DL community to complete. If you have any personal questions or concerns that you can contact him via his email: bzamboni@umphysicians.umn.edu. He is grateful to all who are willing to complete the survey.

Brian has been Looked up in the UMN directory, etc., this seems to be legitimate.

Brian has told me, "feel free to share with others. (I realize it is not really geared toward mommies and daddies). The more people who do it the better it will be."

Please participate! This is a voluntary, anonymous survey about the AB/DL Community. The purpose is to gather and give other therapists accurate information about the AB/DL Community. The survey take 15-20 minutes to complete. Brian appreciates your time and consideration.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/36MYZBQ

[Leilin]

Thanks for the post, Inky. I've filled it out. I've also contacted the creator in the hopes that I can perhaps shed some light on certain subgroups, in which I am myself included, that seem unaccounted for in the questions.

[DailyDi]

I have talked to the survey creator... was supposed to post the link actually, but forgot.

My only concern is that the survey is done SOLELY from a sexual standpoint, not taking into account us lifestyle and emotional wearers. I know its from a Sex program, but it skews the results to force people to answer within the boundaries of a sexually-slanted questions.

[glycerine]

That was one of the better surveys I've seen.

[square_duck]

Thanks for posting this Inky, I did take the survey and some of the questions were rather tough to try and answer honestly. I think the sexual slant is what made it more difficult for me, as I wear for different reasons. Though I am a D/L, it's not 'really' a sexual thing for me......and it's difficult to explain...or maybe I'm just getting old

My only issue came at the end when it asked about potty training, they should have had a drop down window with selections instead of asking for an age. I had to guess, because I don't remember that part of my life. Nor do I remember when I started to stay dry at night *shrug* so that took a while to answer.

I did a lot of typing and made a lot of use of the "comment' boxes as well, and given the sexual slant of the whole thing, I figure now that a lot of what I put in might get tossed out, because this whole thing isn't sexual for me, or isn't as much as it used to be.....I don't really know anymore. I really had to think about a lot of the comments and questions.

If anything I learned a bit more about 'me' and why I do what I do...

Meh, it is what it is...and it took quite a lot longer than just 20 minutes

Just glad it wasn't a timed qwiz!

[Repaid1]

I took it a well, and was also a bit thrown back at the sexual lean of alot of the questions. I also noted that at the end in the comment section. Other than that it did cover quite a bit.

[ForbiddenFruit]

Why is everyone so 'shocked' by the sexual slant? The therapist SPECIALISES IN SEXUALITY - but I will agree there needs to be a survey aimed at non-sexual ageplayers and / or people who actually identify as that age.

My last part was kind of skewed, I have exams next month so OBVIOUSLY I'm not going to be feeling the best (and I had a really bad day the day I took it to boot) - I had to note that in the box below but that box was meant for 'what other questions would you think would be appropriate'. I think I might have to send an email to apologise.

[Leilin]

Why is everyone so 'shocked' by the sexual slant? The therapist SPECIALISES IN SEXUALITY - but I will agree there needs to be a survey aimed at non-sexual ageplayers and / or people who actually identify as that age.

My last part was kind of skewed, I have exams next month so OBVIOUSLY I'm not going to be feeling the best (and I had a really bad day the day I took it to boot) - I had to note that in the box below but that box was meant for 'what other questions would you think would be appropriate'. I think I might have to send an email to apologise.

I agree that the sexual slant is no surprise.

However, the study of human sexuality is also the study, when necessary, of a lack of sexuality in humans, which is considered a significant oddity in most cases that it appears. If a significant portion of us are asexual in nature, it could be very important information for his study which is simply unaccounted for at this time. My goal in mentioning that gap in the questioning is simply to help him by shedding light on those of us who have no sexual drive as well so he can be sure he's getting a complete survey of ABDL sexuality, or lack thereof.