Wow, interesting memories from people!
I used to wake up on school days usually before my parents and especially on weekends, they wanted to lay-in. School days I used to get up, nearly always in a wet diaper, go into the living room and watch tv/cartoons before my mum would get up. I usually waited at least 30 mins or so before mum would get up, first thing she would do is change me usually on the living room floor or sometimes my bed. Then I'd be cleaned with baby wipes so I didn't smell of pee for school, then a new diaper put on and get dressed into school clothes, then breakfast + teeth/morning wash and then to school.
On weekends it was a different story. Mum and dad used to lay in and since no one else was in the house (I'm an only child), I still used to get up fairly early on weekends. Same as usual, I'd get up and go into the living room and watch my favourite weekend cartoons. Weekends were the best as a kid, I miss it so much. I'd probably be up on my own for over an hour or so before a parent would wake up, still in my wet diaper. I don't recall having any issues with leaking despite having stayed in it all night and using it again in the morning.
I'd never ask for a diaper change and always waited for the 'diaper check'. I didn't/couldn't change my own diapers either, I vaguely remember trying to and failing rather epically. Being in a wet diaper didn't seem to bother me as a kid. I was always pre-occupied with playing, cartoons or whatever. My mum would usually nag and lecture me that I should ask for a change, probably worried about my skin. Didn't seem to bother her on weekends though when a lay-in was on the cards!
As I got a bit older and stopped having day accidents, the Pampers and Huggies 'taped' diapers went and I transitioned to DryNites for night wetting only. By around age 11/12 onwards I was able to change my own DryNite (although funnily enough, it was around this time I was becoming a DL through missing my Pampers/taped diapers). Carried on wetting the bed until 15 or so, it came to a slow and gradual stop.