4EverInPullups said:
... I use to be afraid to just wear my diapers in general no matter what I was doing from the fear of other people noticing but now I realize that no one truly cares or is looking ... I just feel like everything is better when I’m in my diapers and I’m so much more calm and relaxed🥰 has anybody else incorporated diapers in their everyday life like this?
Being IC, this simply becomes necessary. Otherwise, you stress about the availability of washrooms and your ability to get there in time when the urge occurs. Even in my own home, we only have one bathroom. So if my wife is in there when I get the urge, then I can still handle the urge without affecting the furniture.
Most of the time, I have enough control that I can get by with using the toilet and just wear low cost pull-ups for accident prevention. But accidents do happen, which is why I wear something every day. If I have to go out from the home, especially on days where the IBS-d might occur, I wear the appropriate diaper. I haven't had an IBS-d blowout in public yet but it is likely to happen one day. So far my accidents have occurred in the driveway at home. It is better that I wear a diaper to save my clothing and public embarrassment. I am less embarrassed by being discovered in a diaper than I would be covered in diarrhea!
As far as I know, I've only had one occasion where someone noticed my diaper. I had a young guy load a box into the back of my truck while my pull-up was quite soggy and bulged. He had this look of disgust on his face. But I didn't make the connection until I got home and changed. I had no idea that things were bulged that much. But I just shrug it off, since I may never see him again. And to be fair, in his place, I might have felt the same way. But who cares? I must say that a brief is much better in this regard because they tend to bulge less visibly.
I have also seen other old fellows in a clearly bulged pull-up at flea-markets etc. But who cares? It's better for them to participate than to hide away as a hermit.
The stigma is never going to go away, though it might get a little less pronounced someday. It just means that IC folks are going to have to suck it up, and toughen their own sensitivities to it. Don't let the stigma rob you of your ability to live life.