How many DLs do we pass on the streets every day?

SparkyDog said:
passing a DL / AB is virtually nill
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I wouldn't be that sure...
 
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babyjoe698 said:
I always wonder the same thing
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Me too.
There are thereabout 12 million nativ language people of my language, we have an ABDL site with 450 registered members, it's only 0.oo375%. Maybe it's not representative, it seems to be much lower than in the U. S...
 
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Keep in mind that many customers of ABUniverse, Bambino, and Tykables are special needs individuals who are require maximum absorbency. Sensory Processing Disorder may be another contributing factor to the level of incontinence experienced by some, particularly those who are on the autism spectrum. So, I would assume that ABDLs are actually a very small percentage of the total number of purchasers of ABDL products. In reality, I would speculate that in a city with a population of 150,000, maybe two or three individuals could be considered as ABDL while the rest will most likely have disabilities that require diapers to be worn.
 
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Honeywell6180 said:
Keep in mind that many customers of ABUniverse, Bambino, and Tykables are special needs individuals who are require maximum absorbency. Sensory Processing Disorder may be another contributing factor to the level of incontinence experienced by some, particularly those who are on the autism spectrum. So, I would assume that ABDLs are actually a very small percentage of the total number of purchasers of ABDL products. In reality, I would speculate that in a city with a population of 150,000, maybe two or three individuals could be considered as ABDL while the rest will most likely have disabilities that require diapers to be worn.
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You're making many assumptioms based on your own experience. So I'll make my own now: I've met lots of AB/DLs, not unknown people, but actual friends or family. So it may not be as uncommon as we think. But we need actual data to say that or the contrary, or else we're just speculating.
 
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How many. That is a £ 1.000.000 question!!
 
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I went to a junior high school of 1200 kids. In the years since, I’ve come across 3 other ABDL guys who all went to the same school at the same time as me. That makes 1 in 300, if we were to assume that I have somehow met them all (it would be a shock to me if I had). That ratio would give you 63 at your school.

I think other DLs are around us quite often.
 
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Thank you all for your replies, it makes me think about it more. Maybe someday I'll try to walk around the university in a diaper under my clothes... but now I'm not that brave hahah.
 
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I once spotted a person wearing an ABU hat while walking down the street. Wasn't able to say anything (like "nice hat") because I was with friends, but very likely that was a fellow ABDL.

I also saw on a local subreddit, a person had posted a question and people were commenting things like "don't check the user's post history...". I checked it, and it was actually them wearing a (very soaked) Goodnites! What are the chances! But also, a little reckless of that person to not use an alternate/throwaway account. Wish I could have reached out with that person to connect, but it seems they deleted their account fairly soon after.
 
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If they're anything like me i.e. the constant battle between guilt, self loathing and acceptance, then there may well be many out there we'll never know about. Human's are infinitely complex. Who knows how many have buried parts of themselves deep inside.
 
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I'm sure there more them a few !! I be one of them if you did pass bye me !! ;)
 
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Honeywell6180 said:
Keep in mind that many customers of ABUniverse, Bambino, and Tykables are special needs individuals who are require maximum absorbency. Sensory Processing Disorder may be another contributing factor to the level of incontinence experienced by some, particularly those who are on the autism spectrum. So, I would assume that ABDLs are actually a very small percentage of the total number of purchasers of ABDL products. In reality, I would speculate that in a city with a population of 150,000, maybe two or three individuals could be considered as ABDL while the rest will most likely have disabilities that require diapers to be worn.
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So my suburb of a big city has about 150k and I know for certain of 4. I don’t go looking for these people but they’re either on fetlife or selling diapers online that I’ve traded with. I’d easily triple that number as most people don’t want any trace of their thing visible. Even if we simplify to 15 then that’s 1/10000. Thus Canada at ~ 40m we be 4000 abdl’s
I’d say this is an underestimate.
 
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Bear in mind also that although most people are online nowadays, some people are not. There are undoubtedly people, probably mostly older people, who are doing their fetish thing all by themselves just like some of us older people did before we got online.
 
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I think about it often when out and about. Therer probably more out there either as ABDLs or just incontinent than many often think of. I can be at a concert, movies or amusement park and I know theres definitely ABDls or diaper wearers around. I know also as I watch the Time Square New Years crowd on TV I know there are many wearing diapers for sure!
 
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Edgewater said:
I will say that you are likely coming in contact with or passing by even more individuals that are IC as we represent the largest number of individuals buy medical diapers and wear every day regardless of where we are going. Whether a small town or a large city, the local grocery and drug stores all have adult diapers.
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I would agree. Whether IC people are using pads, shields or full-on diapers, you would be surprised about so many different places. People have to work, purchase for food and other items (including IC products) and simply trying to live as any other human. We are here and everywhere. It's not just IC seniors, ill or the disabled. I'm a teacher (and guidance counselor). I'm teaching your young people. Your friends. Colleagues. All over the world.
 
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There’s articles that say adult diapers sales have surpassed baby diaper sales.

Being realistic, most diaper wearers are old people.

I would say, if you live in a highly populated “kinky” city such as San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Denver, Orlando… I think you have a far better chance of seeing a ABDL or a diaper wearer.

You can cheat and get a job at Disneyland or Disney world and I’m sure the odds go up even more!
 
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I don't think we can ever know for sure unless we have x-ray vision and concentrate on looking at the diaper area of each and every person we encounter. Furthermore, we would have to probe each diaper wearer's mind for the reasons they are wearing a diaper.
 
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dogboy said:
I've always thought there are more of us than we think. Some may not act on it but the desire might be there. When I was a kid, I had two friends who were into it as well as myself.
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dogboy: I agree that there are probably more ABDLs than we can see but, still, that number is probably rather small. In addition, there is a certain percentage of ABDLs who know who & what they are but will never come out to anyone else, nor ever join something like ADISC, not even anonymously. For whatever reason, unknown and unknowable to us, they simply are not interested in meeting others. We can guess that some of these are largely something like asexual or loners. They're happy in their diapers, and that's all they want.

Likewise, I've dealt with gay men who are out to themselves (and their partners, if they have them) but no one else. They will never enter a gay bar, sign a petition, attend a pride march, or allow themselves to enter any kind of alliance or liaison with what some are wont to call "the gay community." They don't feel thet they have anything in common with other gay men and won't even acknowledge them on the street, if they can help it.

I suspect that there are many ABDLs like this. I wonder if it has to do with internalized shame.

Some people simply are not joiners.
 
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There are more incon out there than what the statistics usually say.
Most people are very incognito about though.🕶️
 
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dogboy: I agree that there are probably more ABDLs than we can see but, still, that number is probably rather small. In addition, there is a certain percentage of ABDLs who know who & what they are but will never come out to anyone else, nor ever join something like ADISC, not even anonymously. For whatever reason, unknown and unknowable to us, they simply are not interested in meeting others. We can guess that some of these are largely something like asexual or loners. They're happy in their diapers, and that's all they want.

Likewise, I've dealt with gay men who are out to themselves (and their partners, if they have them) but no one else. They will never enter a gay bar, sign a petition, attend a pride march, or allow themselves to enter any kind of alliance or liaison with what some are wont to call "the gay community." They don't feel thet they have anything in common with other gay men and won't even acknowledge them on the street, if they can help it.

I suspect that there are many ABDLs like this. I wonder if it has to do with internalized shame.

Some people simply are not joiners.
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Quite true. Even though it's 2023 and we think people are more accepting of alternative lifestyles, many people are still very judgemental. As a college student, I lived an exclusively gay life, having a college boyfriend. This was in the late '60s so being out as gay was dangerous as you could be arrested or put into a mental facility against your will. When my mom found my makeshift diapers and gay porn, she sent me to one of those facilities where I had to discuss all of this with a psychiatrist. As you suggested, I had no interest in going to a gay bar or mixing with a lot of gay people because I was a quiet gay. I also had career goals in mind and being out or outed would have ruined those goals.

The same can be true with being AB/DL. I've always kept that at home and to myself. It's because how other people judge us that it's impossible to know how many there are of us.
 
I think nearly everyone has had moments of desperation where they wish they could just go when ans where they wanted. All of us here and many more like us just followed through with that thought ;)
 
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