Channel 4 Adult Baby Programe

[plasticpant addict]

I am looking forward to this channel4 documentary titled 15 stone babies. If you look at your tv guides or planners you will see that this is to be shown on the 13th of december at 22-00hrs and 1 hour later on channel4 plus 1. I hope this will show all us ab/dls in a way which will help to explain our lifestyle in a sensible light and help to educate people who no nothing about why we enjoy wearing nappies. I will try to get my wife to watch it. We can come back to the forum with our thoughts good or bad. Just to let you know it's about British ab. /dls.

[Guest diaperboykcmo]

Is this on direct tv? If so what channel.. Thanks

[SomeThing]

hahhaahhaah.

I do apologize, however you are being extremely naive. Channel 4 specialises in the "21st century freakshow"-format, where they choose an unusual or controversial lifestyle or medical condition, present the facts fairly, but the camera-work, editing, and journalistic style will emphasise the bits the public want to voyeur into.

Expect a conclusion that, taken at face value reads "we respect our lifestyle choice" but is really "this person is a freak, let's observe how truly weird their life is for our own amusement". Any sane person would know not to appear on TV for ostensible purpose of justifying their unusual lifestyle, which is why these programmes typicaly show the members that have no shame... or are just naive, or feel they speak for all of us (e.g. Rily Kilo, or Stan in NatGeo, or "Yote" in that 2002 furries docu).

I'll bet £5 now that the subjects of the Ch4 doc will be either unemployed, have an obvious mental deficiency (probably Aspergers or Histrionic Personality Disorder), disabled (bonus points if it's myalgic encephalomyelitis / ME), and probably someone we know of in the community who has a generally negative reputation.

Finally, thse shows tend to be very shallow and don't delve into the complicated causes and backgrounds - do not expect them to differentiate between people who have felt infantilism and/or attraction-to-diapers from early childhood, to those who use diapers in otherwise vanilla BDSM play. Or how despite community pleas that ABDL has nothing to do with paedophilia, that the only major ABDL site on the internet for almost 10 years (besides DPF) was riddled with child-sexual undertones (and many of the new posts I see about ageplay on FetLife are creepy too). Or how every ABDL story website is at least 50% filled with stories of children).

No, ABDL is best served by having zero media attention. The best people to talk about it to others are ourselves, because we know our audience better, and we can frame it in a way that reflects our own motivations and not let others speak on our behalf.

[ForbiddenFruit]

I love how you think this might have a positive spin despite the fact the title alone screams "Look at these fat fucking freaks" to its target audience of pre-menopausal women.

[Steveorstephanie]

I will watch, but I don't expect it to show us in a good light. "Some Thing" sums it up perfectly. I don't expect to be able to come out after the show and shout out "I'm most happy when I'm in a nappy" to anyone who will listen. We will still be looked on as freaks.

[Repaid1]

The third or so post on this, here is the first:

http://www.dailydiapers.com/board/index.php?showtopic=35466

[Zander]

Please can everyone posts their replies / comments in the topic that Repaid1 has linked: http://www.dailydiapers.com/board/index.php?showtopic=35466

That way we don't need to keep checking / cross-checking multiple threads on the same topic.

Repaid1: Perhaps consider locking this one?

[BabyJune]

People don't go around saying, "Look at me! I enjoy going potty in the toilet and dressing like a grownup." Why should we want to go around saying, "Look at me! I like going potty in my diaper and dressing like a baby." It's just a different lifestyle and an interest of doing a common task in a different way. We accept what is normal for the majority, but there are a few of us for whom our activities feel normal as well, and I never saw a reason to take it public. If it works for us in private, then let's keep it that way.