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Maybe so!
Mhmm, great minds think alike!
Mhmm, great minds think alike!
This! 100% I can vouch from personal experience that trying to discuss mental health with the general public is dangerous at best. People hear that you have a diagnosis of depression and they start treating you like you are a danger to them. I can't imagine what people would think or how they would react if they found out that I like wearing diapers and cuddling a teddy bear to help cope with that depression.LittleAndAlone said:It would be war for me, autonomous weapons and all to guarantee my bodily autonomy and property rights. There are serious implications with personal liberties and human rights being permanently revoked when someone is considered to have a mental disorder. Are we saying that someone who likes wearing cute clothes shouldn't have guns, security clearance, respectable career etc? Oh hell no! Slinging that mental disorder label around has serious life ending implications for the accused and shouldn't be taken lightly.
Which brings up another topic about how BS it is that people who do have issues and want help cant get it without throwing their rights away for life. That needs to end. That mental disorder flag on your record for seeking voluntarily health care brands you for life and it shouldn't be that way.
Examples of what I cited in my first post, stigmatization. It's a real risk with stuff when documented. People learn that it's something that's diagnose and next thing you know they treat you like you have the world's new deadliest disease.killahB said:This! 100% I can vouch from personal experience that trying to discuss mental health with the general public is dangerous at best. People hear that you have a diagnosis of depression and they start treating you like you are a danger to them. I can't imagine what people would think or how they would react if they found out that I like wearing diapers and cuddling a teddy bear to help cope with that depression.
That is exactly why I asked the question, and you just explained it a lot better than I did. Sometimes labeling behavior makes it more socially acceptable because the label provides an explanation for the behavior. I'm more likely to cut the hyperactive kid some slack if I know he has ADHD, because I know that having ADHD makes it very difficult for him to concentrate.flickpuppy said:It feels like that at the root of this poll is the idea that if ABDL were to be medicalized by being made a mental disorder that it would somehow be admissible or acceptable. Because we as ABDL folks just couldn't help it due to it being a mental disorder. Which in turn would bring about a public acceptance of ABDL as just another mental illness.
Ok, when put that way the idea makes a bit more sense. I can appreciate the idea better this way.blissfullyquirky said:That is exactly why I asked the question, and you just explained it a lot better than I did. Sometimes labeling behavior makes it more socially acceptable because the label provides an explanation for the behavior. I'm more likely to cut the hyperactive kid some slack if I know he has ADHD, because I know that having ADHD makes it very difficult for him to concentrate.
Similarly, if a link between adverse childhood experiences and ABDL were established it would provide the general public with a good explanation for why we have such a strong desire to wear diapers. I think we would be more accepted if people would focus less on the diapers and more on what caused us to want to wear diapers in the first place.
I know 100% what your saying. And I get why. Like I said having a disorder is nothing to be ashamed of. Many other non ABDL folks can agree with that. And I'm speaking just for myself. But it's not a disorder. Maybe things might be easier if we could say it was but things aren't supposed to be easy. Rather try and convince others not to judge than call my desires a mental health issue.blissfullyquirky said:That is exactly why I asked the question, and you just explained it a lot better than I did. Sometimes labeling behavior makes it more socially acceptable because the label provides an explanation for the behavior. I'm more likely to cut the hyperactive kid some slack if I know he has ADHD, because I know that having ADHD makes it very difficult for him to concentrate.
Similarly, if a link between adverse childhood experiences and ABDL were established it would provide the general public with a good explanation for why we have such a strong desire to wear diapers. I think we would be more accepted if people would focus less on the diapers and more on what caused us to want to wear diapers in the first place.
This is triggering my "come and take them" and "try it and see what happens" response so bad.caitianx said:Being Autistic I am already seen to be a crazy dangerous homicidal nut case.
After the Sandy Hook Elementary School Massacre, there were calls to round up and imprison for life every single Autistic person like me throughout the United States in Concentration Camps.