Way, way back....as in the pre-historic age before the internet, there was no support for incontinent folks. I struggled, alone, and feeling totally alone as there were no resources where I could touch base with others suffering the indiginity of no bladder control.
About the time the internet got going, forums sprang up and it seemed as quickly as a legitimate support forum showed up it was taken over by the Adult Baby / Diaper Lover crowd. Sometimes the attack would be masked as they pretended to be incon but all too soon you knew the site was lost for legitimate use and support. I think I can recall some 6 or 7 sites that I would visit regularly before seeing one after the other fall to the ravages of the AB/DL crowd.
It requires dedication and moderation to keep a site like this one legitimate. I also follow a Yahoo Health site for Adult Incon and there the owner allows AB/DLs but they cannot discuss their fetish and life style, only contribute to what is a good diaper and dealing with leaks.
The posts there are moderated before they go up. So there is a delay of a day which can put som folks off. Here, your post goes up immediately and is subject to moderation if it is not appropriate. Schoppy does a good job screening applicants before giving them membership and posting priveledges but as you know, it is impossible to exclude a dedicated scammer that writes a good intro to get admission to the Forum and wreak his havoic before getting ousted.
Let me add that I believe in live and let live, I am not judging the AB/DLs and they can live their life as they wish. I believe they have made significant contributions to the quality and variety of diapering we have available these days because of their large numbers, being vocal in pushing for better diapers and backing it up with buying power.
Don, I think your experience on that other site is typical....a supposed incon person feeling humiliated at a public pool for wearing a swim diaper with nothing over it.......come on! Kids can get away with that but certainly not adults! And then, the picture of the guy with a pacifier....so we are led along the path thinking this is a legit incon and end up with an AB. Absolutely typical of all that went on with all the early incon sites.
So, again, thank you Don for the kind words; it's nice to know our work is not going un-noticed!
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