Question for old timers......

[Wetpants]

I've been meaning to ask this for quite some time now but it always slips away.

I'm one of the older members of the group, and so have very different experiences with the lifestyle.

[wayney]

Im 42 and I can relate.

[beallucanb]

I think I would have found someone like myself if the internet was available when I was in my 20's.

Like many of us I thought I was the only one.

[Little BabyDoll Christine]

Not much, I find persons of the same interest and we have recovered much from our culture

[Wet Knight]

In the 60's I knew that there were homos who liked watersports and rubber gear, and also, I had a girlfriend who quite often wet when she orgasmed, so I didn't think I was the only one.

By the mid 60's there were covert contacts in seedy publications, under the counter at Soho magazine shops.

[Nia]

I remember the first night I found Section Seven on Compuserv. The whole not alone thing was huge. Then I found DPF and got a post office box so I could get the paper magazines delivered quietly. I spent a lot of time hiding my AB side and being ashamed or embarrassed by it. It would have made my 20's a lot easier I think.

[Baby Brian]

I can relate as well, and I'm not even 40. I used to think my compulsion for diapers was nothing more than sick, dirty, sexual fetish

[rusty pins]

In my case probably not much change.

[Repaid1]

Mine is similar to above stories but I lucked into finding a story about AB/DL's in the early 80's (Think it was 1980) in a penthouse forums magazine that had a whole write up about Tommy and the then "Diaper Pail Fraternity"

[PullUpDiaperLover]

Join the club my friend. I literally thought I was the ONLY ONE! I have been on the net since maybe 1995, yet had no idea there was an online DL community until 5 or 6 years ago, and once found starting wearing more and finding out about great ABDL diapers. I regret not embracing sooner.

[Craisler]

I think the only change for me would have been the knowledge that I was not the only one with my strange "abnormal" desire to wear diapers. By the time I'd have had access to "adult content" sites, my DL desires were well established.

Edited September 29, 2015 by Craisler

[oliver d]

I also grew up without the net if it had been around I sure as hell would not have felt like I was the only one in the world with this fetish.I sure felt alone in the world .Getting the net in 2000 and finding sites like Dpf and some others I saw I was not alone.It would have made life better for me if I had

[willnotwill]

Yep me too.

[Bettypooh]

The article repaid1 mentions is also how I became aware of the ABDL in me existing. But at that point in my life, it didn't generate enough interest for me to pursue it. What happened here is that I could not get the memory of that article out of my head; it popped up occasionally whenever I daydreamed, and that left me wondering why it wouldn't go away. I had other larger issues going on that overshadowed it for years so it wasn't that important to me I was something of a computer luddite back then, but there came a time where the internet was going to be useful to me so I hopped on board. It didn't take long to discover that ABDL was far more widespread than I had ever imagined possible, and thus began my journey here

With all the rest of what I was dealing with in my life, I kind of doubt that making the discovery on the internet sooner would have changed much for me. I am glad that those coming of age today have this resource to turn to for indeed it's a horrible feeling to think that you are the only one in the world who likes something as unusual as wearing diapers. Yes it's somewhat odd but you're not alone in this or any other deep-rooted feelings you have. Nobody is totally weird but I try hard to come close to that because it's FUN!

[dondl2]

Add me to the list of old timers, 66, now. I was unaware of others and thought I was nuts for my diaper

[wetatnight]

I'm almost 45 I can relate

[dyperbole]

Having the Internet when I was younger would have definitely saved me years of guilt and shame of my diaper obsession.

The first time I had heard of anyone else wearing a diaper was in the 80s porn movie Corporate Assets.

[wetdiaper222]

Not an old timer yet. I'm 27" But I too did feel alone in this desire until I turned 13 and got my first computer a windows 98 emachines that my parents bought at a pawn shop for me.

I signed up to AOL and decided to type in diapers. And I came up with a lot of sites with many others who loved diapers like me.

[LilFozzyJ5]

Very similar story here, started having feelings when I was 9, thought I was the only one in the world and some kind of sick twisted freak.

I didn't find out I was alone until I was 27 and finally on the internet, if I had access to the internet back then it would have solved a lot of pain and anguish and guilt.

[turtlepins]

First, let me say this is a great discussion!

[dondd]

I wish we had the Internet when I was a kid if for no other reason than the realization that I was not alone and learning that others

[Nyte Kitsune]

I'm 42 and went thru the same thing. Never knew there were so many of us, and same went for my other side "Furries", a lot of us are out there and quite a few are also ABDL's. Always thought both my DL and Furry things were just "My" weird, personal, side-show, so I made few friends and just read comics and when they became available,

[randy]

It would have changed my life DRASTICALLY had i known at age 18 that there were other ABDL folk. i would have gotten into a different profession, as when i was growing up i figured this was something i would

[dlsafrica]

Wayney, I identify with what you said. My ex accepted it, but didn't understand.

[BigC300]

I think if I had known then what I know now, I would have been more open toward my