Am new here so please be gentle
I'm a patterns person, and am finding it quite fascinating to see a reasonable correlation between TG and DL.
I've been a DL pretty much my entire life. I still remember one day finding plastic pants and wearing them when I was about 5 or so, being sprung by my old man, and ending up having a very long cold shower. At that stage I was also quite bowel incontinent (pretty much all the way through public school, and high school, into Uni), so kept "indulging" in the fascination of baby nappies and plastic pants. At random points up to about 8 years old, my mum would put me in nappies, only to stop a few days later (quite likely due to all the washing, and cleaning, and maybe the thought f the humiliation I'd cop at school if I wore nappies there). I even had a doctor say to mum to put me back into nappies (silently cheering the doc's advice). This was in the days of terry cloth nappies - disposables were not around. Who knows what would have happened if I was born in the 90's... Even in high school, exploring around house flats after school, I'd discover a worn out pair of plastic pants, and find a quiet spot to go wear them.
At the same time as I was going through Primary and High School, I was discovering my female side, and feeling decidedly different to the other boys. Nappies were a way for me to look "normal" down there, hide the bits I didn't want to see, look more feminine, if only for a short while. Crazy times, with a few mental breakdowns to boot.
Pretty much as soon as I was able to legally transition, I quit my work at the family business, moved across town, dropped all contact with family, and transitioned, then had surgery exactly 1yr after transition. Exciting times, but quite impoverished times too. I became quite addicted to wearing nappies, and new sensations post-op. Looking back on that time now, I think I was going through a "re-birth" stage, as that was the only time I ever sought out AB companionship.
I'm now wearing 24/7, as I'm having IC issues. When I disclosed this to my sister, her first thought was "do you think it's your prostate?", "yup, I'm suspecting so". Yes, I'm off to see an urologist in a few weeks.
Doing research on IC these past few weeks, I've read a few forums now to wonder if there is such a correlation, as there seems to be quite a few people disclosing their CD/TG tendencies, and AB/DL.