Still Need Understanding
Transcript of Still Need Understanding
Do we Still Need Understanding?
TeddyCON 2014By BitterGrey,
http://understanding.infantilism.org/
Take it from a T. Rex...
You can learn to fly, you can live on as
legend, but you cannot go unchanged.
(This presentation was modifed slightly; For example, the above point was spoken only, not written on a slide.)
Benefits of understanding...
● ...have changed over the past 20 years– Might not be our highest priority anymore
● Acceptance through understanding:– ...Of self
– ...Of other AB/DL's diversity
– ...Of us, by others
Acceptance of self
● Infantilism & diaper fetishes exist– Failed quitting, binge & purge cycles
– Sex ratio (mostly male), onset age (10-90% 4-16 yrs M) trends
– Single symptom; diagnostically ambiguous
● Disproportionate Conditions– Asperger's (5%), Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (8%)
● Similar onset age, sex ratio (Aspergers, early onset OCD)
– Incontinence (11%) Diapers; cause/effect/both
– Borderline Personality Disorder (4%). Teddybears misinterpreted as “transitional objects”
● Not alone: “Abnormal is bad”
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Not alone...Born 40's, Learned of other AB/DLs at 50
Born 90'sLearned of others at 10
1995Survey
Acceptance of Others' Diversity
● Sexuality debate perpetuated by false dichotomy
● “is” versus “becomes”● Generally increasing diversity● Radical sexological etiology largely absent form
peer-reviewed literature: Kink.
Presense and Importance of Se
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Moderated
-Roleplay
-Regressed
Never Involved
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Presence Importance
Sex is inherentlyImportant
Sex must be absent
Silent middle ground: Sex is fun anyway
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BornFemale
Male Transvestite / Male to Female Transsexual
MaleSissy
Increasing diversity ... kink!
masochism crossdressing furry fetishes0%
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ABDL first
Other first
'Inborn infantilism, airborn ageplay'● Kinks can be acquired
– Barriers (stigmas, norms, fun)
– Visibility/Commication
– Communicable: Growth vector!
● Infantilism & diaper fetishism consistent with early childhood condition & latency period– No growth vector
● Etiologically non-homogeneous populations...having fun at the same parties
Acceptance (of us) by others
● Fear of the unknown. – Greatest apparent danger drives expectations
● Anything that needs to be hidden is bad.– Otherwise we wouldn't be hidding it
● Self-representation– Medicine
– Media
Medicine
– Med motives: Fame, money, curing some terrible desease
– Tangential cases (eg Mitchel 1954)● Invalids or incarcerated
– Nepiophilia vs autonepiophilia
– DSM5 ● Infantilism no longer exlicitly not pedophilia● No kinks; just normal/homosexual, paraphilic, and paraphilic
disordered
– AB/DL efforts assisting new research● Hawkinson & Zamboni● Dr. Lipscomb
Media
● TV– Jerry Springer: Tommy ('98) to Oprah v. Midget ('07)
● Internet– AB/DL forums & web pages
– Wikipedia: “autopedophilia” not explicitly mentioned on infantilism page, but sources cited 15 times
● Podcasts– Big Little Podcast, etc.