Family Support

[Baker95]

I'm currently enrolled in a sociology class and we are doing a project about subcultures. My group choose ABDL as ours to inform our class on a subculture that isn't normally heard of or talked about. We wanted to get information from first hand experience to explain certain aspects of the culture. We wanted to know about how family has either supported or not your decisions in the ABDL community? We also wanted to discuss how you believe media portrays this community? If you have any other comments or questions you would like to answer that would be helpful!

[kellysbaby]

My wife is very accepting. My ex told everyone when she was mad at me. No-one in my family has ever brought it up to me. They all trust me watching our grandkids, so locally I'd say it's going well. I still wouldn't tell anyone intentionally due to stigmas and the amount of bad press that still goes on. The ABDL scene is always mentioned in any article describing strange dating sites. I didn't choose the huggies life. The huggies life chose me....

[Bettypooh]

All I can comment on is the media portrayal. There have been a few fairly balanced interviews, but most of the spin is toward tabloid-style sensationalism- nothing new or unexpected there.

[Baby Brian]

My wife is very supportive and my family mostly doesn't really care for the good or bad. I also have a good friend I met through DPF (the first big

[whisko]

my mom found my diaper

[Rachel Emily]

The only family member I ever told was my mother--the rest of the family has enough trouble accepting that I'm transgender, let alone ABDL. As to the media portrayals of our community, I can't recall any article, documentary or talk show that didn't look at us from a "aren't those people weird?" point of view. Some are better than others (Riley Kilo, the subject of the "My Strange Addiction" segment on adult babies,

[Dill_Pickle]

Having a definite relationship with diapers, or playing at being small in many ways is like being gay, or TG, or BDSM, or any of a number of other fetishes and peculiarities --

[babylin]

Baker95

I was in chat when you posed this option there.

You need to better define your objective, there is too much information here.

[Dill_Pickle]

Baker:

I hope you are still here!