WarmAndSquishy said:
Just a warning on these! I’m 5’4” 105 pounds (so, I’m very small) and these are way way too big on me!! They have these really big gauze like tapes that I can wrap around my entire waist. They’ve worked okay when I wear them with a tight onesie only for sleep, but if I try to wear them while walking around the tapes slide right up my hips and the diaper falls off.
You're 5 feet 4 inches and 105 pounds? Wow. The height isn't that short, my mom is your height; my dad is 2 inches taller. I'm the tallest one in my family; I'm almost 6 feet tall. I don't mean just my immediate family (my brother is a little shorter than me). I mean my ENTIRE family including my aunts, uncles, cousins, etc. My maternal grandparents were 4 feet 11 inches tall (grandfather) and 5 feet tall (grandmother). In 27 people, I'm the tallest. And act the YOUNGEST. I should say that my parents are Asian and Asian people tend to be rather small. I don't wear diapers, but I do have Classic Autism and ADHD and emotionally and socially I am like a 4 1/2 to 5 years old. I do have some childhood interests - like children's cartoons, pacifiers, dressy children's clothing like long-alls and jon jons, T strap shoes, etc. Although that's very likely because of my Autism.
I was probably your height and weight when I was in 6th or 7th grade. Sure I was small when I was a toddler, but almost everyone is small as a toddler. I was never short. Even when I was 9 years old in 4th grade, I was already 4 feet 10 inches tall, 74 pounds, and taller than one or two of my mom's adult friends.
I'm guessing with your height and weight, you must really have small feet. Do you wear children's shoes?? I don't mean toddler shoes, obviously. I mean like size 6 men's / 8 ladies or something. Or even a child size 4 (one size below a men's 6). In European sizes, a 6 men's would be a 38. There are a lot of children's shoe companies in southeastern Spain that make children's T strap shoes and Mary Janes to a size 38. Usually that's about what size they stop at. There are plenty of adult ladies that fit into a size 8 ladies (EU 38), not unusual, in fact it's unusual for ladies to wear anything beyond a size 9. Of course, they tend to be shorter in height than men too. Me, I wear a size 9 men's (42 European). I'm so frustrated because I can't get what I want to wear. I know guys who are 5 feet 6 inches and 150 pounds and they are able to wear a 38. And there's a big difference between a children's T strap shoe or Mary Janes, and one made for an adult. The children's shoes tend to have a flatter heel and look more like children's shoes, whereas adult shoe companies that make T straps or Mary Janes tend to be not quite so cute - with lug soles and other things about it that tend not to look as much like a child's shoe. This is true if you compare the same sizes. For instance, a 38 European size T strap shoe made by a children's shoe company will look more childlike than one in size 38 made by a company that makes adult shoes. I don't know if you understand or not.
The thing about this is that if children's shoe companies are going to make children's shoes ONLY and not adult shoes, then they should accomodate ALL children at least. And there are 12 year olds who have big feet and wear a size 41 or 42. There are 12 year olds who are as tall as me. Why should a 12 year old who is little get to wear T strap shoes while another 12 year old who has a bigger shoe size can't wear them? A 12 year old is still a child. Why stop at a size 38 European? 🤷♂️🤦♂️😢
(as an aside, I noticed you mentioned you were Autistic, in your profile. As I said, I am too. It's very difficult being Autistic when everything is about having social skills. I'm tired of trying to be a good kind compassionate person to others while normal people don't go and follow "do onto others as you would have liked done to you". 😢😢😢🤦♂️ I was an assistant co-host at Preschooler Storytime at my library for 16 years, I positively impacted tens of thousands of children. And I was never given as much credit as I deserved. I have a college degree in Geography and I don't have a job. 85% of Autistic people are unemployed - and a lot of them (me included) still live with their parents even in their 40s or 50s. 35% of Autistic people go to college, but they are still unemployed when they graduate. In a world that is just only about having social skills, Autistic people are frequently shunned and mistreated for lscking certain social skills. I certainly don't think the normal people belittling Autistics and calling them stupid names is having great social skills either. But because they have the social skills they prize, anyone who doesn't have that gets ostracized. I've been called the R word zillions of times and called much worse names. Then again, so was Albert Einstein and he was one of smartest people ever and he likely had Autism. The Wright Brothers were probably called the R word too when they first flew the airplane. There is credible and clear evidence that shows they were laughed at from coast to coast)
Pictured below : T strap shoes made in Spain. In the second photo, the navy blue one is a size 38, the cognac one is a 35 European.
- longallsboy
