I'd say it's all a matter of degrees... During the 1990's, I wore the original Goodnites to work every day, with plastic pants and undies over them, and I used them to the degree I could get away with, mostly coming home with a fully soaked Goodnite. Then they started messing with their design, and they didn't quite fit to the degree I felt comfortable with, and they held less, so I went looking for options.
About that time I remember some idiot, on some forum, claiming that pullups weren't diapers, because, to the degree that they weren't plastic backed, and wore more like underpants, they couldn't be considered as diapers. I figured his mom must have brainwashed him during his childhood.
For a long time afterwards, my new job, in a new state, didn't quite allow me the same opportunity to wear daily, but I wore more at night, but not every night. It was still reserved for special times.
When I moved back to my original state, again my job changed, and this time, as a trucker, I had lots of options. I began to wear 24/7, without much of a thought about it, except how to manage the supplies and changing, etc. Within a very short period of time, I found myself hitting the three month mark, then a year, and now, I'm approaching 4 years, still in pullups, day & night, most of the time, with a five-layer version (days: 2 pullups, undies, plastic pants, tightey whiteys), or, when at home, a lesser degree (a pullup, training pant/two, plastic pants/not, all depending on what level of comfort/protection I'm looking for at home & overnight).
So, I'm guessing some would still take issue with me calling a pullup a diaper, but that's just semantics. Others might say that since I don't have a pooofy diaper on, or that I sometimes pee in a bottle, or urinal/toilet, I'm not 24/7/365, but I'd beg to differ. It's more a matter of what degree you're willing to go to, to find what works, and make it stick. I'm thankful I'm only a DL, and that I don't have to deal with #2, because either of those differences would be deal-breakers in real life, and, of course, in love.
So there it is. That's one way you can evolve to wearing 24/7/365, without all the consternation, and introspection. I'd say I just became who I've always been, since I was first prematurely taken out of diapers. I lived many years of my earlier life in denial about all of this, catering to societal norms, and now I just live my life, as I choose, not giving a damn what society thinks, but not rubbing anyone's nose in it either....
