Trevor
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What you're saying makes perfect sense. If diaper manufacturers had taken your approach from the outset, there might not have ever needed to be ABDL diapers in the first place. We were the underserved, undesired portion of an already underserved market. Companies like Secure Personal Care found that there was a market to be served and came up with Bambinos. Others, including ABDLs, followed suit and now we have a wide variety of options.NorthShoreAdam said:The MegaMax and Colored Supreme Lites are both bought buy ABDL and non-ABDL wearers. While that classification may be ok for people and their interests, I don't find it useful to label products as only for one group or another. We have non-abdl customers buying baby prints like Crinklz because they just want something cute and fun. I find it more useful to categorize the products by style and features such as printed, colored, landing zone, pull-ups, etc... Assigning a label suggesting that a product is intended to be used by only one group of people just adds stigma to all others that may find that product useful.
Where you see stigma, we see identity. I'm not saying this as a slam on you or makers of incontinence products (I'm an enthusiastic customer of yours) but trying to explain how it is when what you want is never acknowledged. ABDL diapers are our thing. If you don't make them for us, they are not our thing. Economically, it makes the most sense to cast a wide net. For brand loyalty and goodwill of a small, maligned bunch of weirdos, it matters. Maybe some day, they'll all just be adult diapers. For now, ABDL diapers mean something to a lot of us.