Dear Friends,

Last Friday night Marky and I attended a Russian Festival. We

enjoyed the food and the entertainment. I was dressed, as usual, in bulky

diapers and my Sesame Street fleece long sleeve shirt. As we sat in the

auditorium waiting for the show, we were amazed to see, sitting not more

than two seats away across the aisle, a boy of about eight who was obviously

wearing diapers. Over his diapers he had obviously been dressed in gray

flannel pants with an elastic waist but which had no pockets and no fly.

It was a style usually reserved for toddlers. He was acting 'all boy'

and was playing with toy soldiers. His parents were VERY attentive and

loving. He was obviously a well balanced and happy boy. Three aisles ahead

we noticed a boy about four years old. He was sitting in his mother's lap

and his mother was feeding him what looked like baby food. Then, as our

eyes opened in amazement, she offered him a baby bottle which he gladly took

in one hand and immediately put the nipple to his mouth. Earlier in the day

we had seen him playing with friends like a normal four year old. Like the

older boy, he seemed very well balanced and happy. Some years ago we had been

hiking on Mt. Tam and had run across a family with two boys aged 5 and eight.

Both boys were wearing Pampers (you could see the tops of their diapers when

the bent over. Both boys were also wearing T-shirts with snaps in the

shoulder - a very babyish style. The older boy was playing with a salamander,

and his mother and daddy were giving him as much love and attention as

they possibly could. Once again, he seemed well balanced and VERY happy.

My thought, then, is that contrary to all the stories many of us have read

about young boys being humiliated when the were forced into diapers or treated

like a baby, my actual observations have all indicated just the opposite.

I was wondering what your experiences have been. Have you seen young children

treated as babies and acting happy and very natural every minute of it, happy

and well balanced. Have you ever had such a personal experience? I too get '

off' on the fantasy of a young child being forced into diapers and humiliated

when made to act like a baby. But maybe the truth is just the opposite. What

do you think?