Richard's Testimonial
Posted 08/22/01
This one isn't very long, and it may not be spelt correctly, but please
do publish it. I'd say 'use my email address and name' but someone I've
given your site address to (for his parents to see) I want to visit and
I don't know that I want his parents to know it's me!
Ahh, that's a good idea: just use the name 'Richard' (my actual name) and richard@wolfpuppy.org.uk
that way if someone wants to get in touch with me they can =)
I'm 18, gay and an teen baby. There's no connection that I know of
between me being gay and me being a TB - I realised them at different
points in my life and for different reasons, so it's just coincidence -
after all, if 1 in 10 guys are gay then some of them are bound to be
TBs as well - so don't think it'll turn your son gay.
I've known I liked diapers since I was about 12. Originally, and I'm
fairly ashamed to admit this, I got them by shoplifting just because I
was too embarrased to buy them. Well.. it wasn't *exactly* shoplifting,
you see the local supermarket had a selection of their 'own brand'
diapers in the baby change room that were free for parents to use, so I
took a couple of those whenever I went. In the end, I got caught, and
the supermarket staff chewed me out. I was 3 hours late getting home
that day and my mum had gone frantic looking for me, and in the end I
told her what had happened (I don't know why - perhaps because I
couldn't think of a convincing lie) and she was puzzled about why I
would want to do such a thing. I didn't explain, I was just acting
distraught and confused, hoping she'd pass it off, which she did. I
started cycling to the next town and buying them instead, getting over
my embarrasment by going to some lengths to make it appear that I was
doing the shopping for my parents. I continued like this pretty much
undiscovered for, well, years. I found places where I could get adult
diapers and bought those instead, even more embarrased, and eventually
when I was 17 and my parents were away on holiday, I mail-ordered 92
Tena diapers (a HUGE box). Problem was, I left the invoice on top of a
pile of papers in my bedroom and when my mum was looking for something
she found it. She asked me about it (she's a pharmacist) saying 'do you
have a problem' and I told her that I didn't. She said 'would you like
to explain this, then' and I said "no, not really," and she accepted
that (probably on the grounds that she didn't want to know).
Parents reading this - this is not that bad an approach, is it? I mean,
I'm sure you give your child a reasonable amount of privacy - let it
extend to this too.
It's getting harder to hide it now, since my mum actually walked in on
me when I was asleep in a onesie and a diaper, and my boyfriend
(permanent) is a TB too, and eventually I guess I'll tell her but I
don't think she'll have too much of a problem with it. Probably just
'make sure you throw them away and don't let them stink up the house'
(which I do anyway).
I'm a good student, I'm off to a very good university this year to
study computing, and diapers have never done anything bad for me (even
the cost is negligable compared to what I've seen people my age spend
on drink or drugs - at least my £40 of diapers lasts me for a month,
not one evening with £40 of beer or £40 of marajuana). I've got lots of
friends, I've done very well at college, I'm comfortable with myself,
I'm earning a good wage this summer - and if my diapers were denied me,
I don't know that I would be.
My boyfriend and I are planning our lives long-term now - it's a real
lasting relationship (which has been going on for some time) which is
more than most eighteen-year-olds have got!!!
So.. just think about how little it would take to let your
child/teenager/whatever indulge in a little *HARMLESS* fun and keep
them happy, successful and optimistic - don't deny them something so
trivial just because it doesn't fit your idea of what's 'normal' -
normal is a silly idea at the best of times.
Thanks,
Richard
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