ST50 said:Actually it was my sister that used to make sure everyone knew her older brother still wet his bed every night. My Mother used to make sure it was no secret either.
how nice of them. i hope kaarma came back to bite them eventually.
ST50 said:Actually it was my sister that used to make sure everyone knew her older brother still wet his bed every night. My Mother used to make sure it was no secret either.
KenworthW900b said:My parents never went out of their way to embarrass me about my bedwetting but they were not very discreet about it either, when my mom was making the grocery list she would ask if i needed diapers regardless of whether i had friends around or not. We didnt really have to be discreet around family because every one knew and my 3 cousins also were bedwetters and wore diapers and thats where most of my diapers came from was my cousins because my aunt bought them in bulk she would buy enough for me too, always luvs or pampers in pink i very seldom got blue ones for boys because my cousins were all girls. My parents always made me wear baby diapers until goodnites came out and sometimes even after that until they just didnt fit anymore i think it was about 1995 when i wore my last baby diaper. My family did start to make a little bit of fuss about my diaper wearing when i started high school but it was just like poorly timed rude comments nothing scarring or anything. In the end i was a little embarrassed that they were still buying me goodnites as a teenager luckily it stopped not long before i was 16, of course the victory was short lived as i got injured when i was 17 and was left with no bladder control all and 18 years later thats where i still am. After my injury none of my family has said a word about my incontinence or diapers or anything else
ryan2127 said:were your parents really buying you goodnites at 16?
If you dont mind me asking what happened that made you IC?
Can't read pink? Here you go.musicfan9389 said:Hello,
This is for those who grew up with incontinence issues. I was wondering if anyone else got embarrassed by the way their parents handled their accidents. I told my story on here before, but when I started wetting the bed 10 years ago when I was 14, I remember coming home and seeing a pack of soccer player GoodNites on the counter. Then everytime I needed more GoodNites, they would have me go shopping with them. It seemed like they would take forever getting my bedwetting supplies in the baby aisle and that they made a big deal about it. I was glad to have the GoodNites, since they kept my sheets dry. (It's a lot easier to deal with changing pull-ups than it is to wash sheets).
Anyways, I was wondering if anyone else had parents that would do stuff either intentionally or unintentionally to embarrass them about their incontinence.
ggreggy said:I dont think my mom and aunt intentionally meant to embarras my cousin and me but it certainly happened. A set of sheets, two sets of pjs, two undershirts, and two white briefs were on the line everyday outside our trailer. We didnt realize until much later that EVERYone in the trailerpark knew.
At every family gathering the ladies would always talk about "the kids". eventually it would get around to
potty training, and they would end up discussing who was still pissing the bed. and they would compare who, how often, and if and when we would stop. they didnt even realize the four boys they weretalking about were embarrassed. the only good thing was at least i wasnt the only one.
ST50 said:I know all about my family discussing my bedwetting Aunts and grandmothers used to talk as if I were not in the room.
mikesecret said:I remember those discussions as well where my mom talked to neighboring moms and to relatives as if they were trading recipes. I used to try to stop her by saying 'don't say anything' if I was anywhere in the vicinity. I guess in todays terms they were just networking about what they saw as a common problem but it wasn't very sensitive.
Maux said:My parents were pretty awful about it for a long time. There was some hope that I may have grown out of it, but it just didn't pan out, and from their perspective they were just trying to help it along. I still get jitters when I hear the pullups tagline, I can practically hear my parents saying "You're still not a big kid now..." I've prettymuch come to terms with the idea that they just didn't know how to handle the situation, nothing about growing up in the South in their era prepared you for how to deal with this the right way, it in fact would point you at all the wrong things to do. But it is what it is, they don't give me a hard time anymore and holding onto all that hurt just doesn't help me at this point, so what are you gonna do, you know?
Slomo said:I always counter that with the ToysRus tag line. I don't wanna grow up....
WTF!? You cared! That should've been enough!340lbbenchpressbaby said:My parents made plenty of very questionable decisions, but one thing I especially remember my mom doing was hanging up my plastic pants on the clothesline to dry, right in plain view of anybody who passed by. We lived in the middle of town. Another thing: when I was still wearing diapers (up until age 8 or so), if I needed to be changed and we were out in public, she'd pull a diaper out of her purse in front of everybody and hand it to me (or, when I was a little younger, take me in and change me herself).
In all cases, if I complained that she was being too obvious, she told me to calm down because "nobody cared" (though of course my classmates noticed and teased me constantly).
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