AdorableRabbit
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I agree with Gsmax, and MarchinBunny,
It seems inevitable that folks will be weird-ed out, repulsed, surprised, shocked, by ABDLs when they first hear or them or are exposed to one.
Frankly it doesn't even matter of you wear a diaper. Seeing a grown person acting like an infant or wearing oversized infant clothes (usually suffering from the uncanny inflation of size which makes their proportions distorted) is shocking.
This is no different than any niche or fringe and is frankly normal when we are not "normal" in the sense of "being the common, default, majority, expected". If you don't live around a lot of gay people, you're gonna be shocked when you first see two men kiss. If you're not part of the BDSM scene, calling someone a domanatrix is a risque joke, and if they pulled out a ball gag of their bag your jaw would drop. If you've not been educated about autism, your first introduction to how their mind works is going to trigger the reaction that's it's hard to imagine. If you didn't grow up eating snails, when you first get served some without warning, you're gonna jump out of your seat.
I think MarchinBunny mentioned this, but their seems to be an expectation that somehow other "minority lifestyles/interests/personality/sexuality" which now have greater awareness, and protection, are also somehow accepted, and don't induce strong negative feelings. This is not the case. In the USA even a huge percentage of people (nearly half) made it clear that they are not just cringing a little about gay or transexual people, but are actively hostile to them.
I guess I'm trying to say, awareness does not equal acceptance. It' not reasonable or helpful to think so.
I also agree that general awareness of the full spectrum of people's neuro-diveristy and sexual diversity, and tolerance and acceptance of folks of all kinds, seems like a great and reasonable goal. I'll be honest, there are things that totally squick me out. Vore, hardcore rape fantasies, they bother me emotionally, even as I intellectually know that these things are actually always in control of the 'sub'. That's OK. I can be tolerant and supportive of things that I find squicky. Heck I can be tolerant and supportive of things I find problematic, even while I offer criticism (hopefully constructive).
What I find *actually* cringeworthy both in ABDLs and among other groups is a lack of self awareness and consideration for others...
It seems inevitable that folks will be weird-ed out, repulsed, surprised, shocked, by ABDLs when they first hear or them or are exposed to one.
Frankly it doesn't even matter of you wear a diaper. Seeing a grown person acting like an infant or wearing oversized infant clothes (usually suffering from the uncanny inflation of size which makes their proportions distorted) is shocking.
This is no different than any niche or fringe and is frankly normal when we are not "normal" in the sense of "being the common, default, majority, expected". If you don't live around a lot of gay people, you're gonna be shocked when you first see two men kiss. If you're not part of the BDSM scene, calling someone a domanatrix is a risque joke, and if they pulled out a ball gag of their bag your jaw would drop. If you've not been educated about autism, your first introduction to how their mind works is going to trigger the reaction that's it's hard to imagine. If you didn't grow up eating snails, when you first get served some without warning, you're gonna jump out of your seat.
I think MarchinBunny mentioned this, but their seems to be an expectation that somehow other "minority lifestyles/interests/personality/sexuality" which now have greater awareness, and protection, are also somehow accepted, and don't induce strong negative feelings. This is not the case. In the USA even a huge percentage of people (nearly half) made it clear that they are not just cringing a little about gay or transexual people, but are actively hostile to them.
I guess I'm trying to say, awareness does not equal acceptance. It' not reasonable or helpful to think so.
I also agree that general awareness of the full spectrum of people's neuro-diveristy and sexual diversity, and tolerance and acceptance of folks of all kinds, seems like a great and reasonable goal. I'll be honest, there are things that totally squick me out. Vore, hardcore rape fantasies, they bother me emotionally, even as I intellectually know that these things are actually always in control of the 'sub'. That's OK. I can be tolerant and supportive of things that I find squicky. Heck I can be tolerant and supportive of things I find problematic, even while I offer criticism (hopefully constructive).
What I find *actually* cringeworthy both in ABDLs and among other groups is a lack of self awareness and consideration for others...