Growing Up In Nappies Summary: A retrospective story on Lewis as he remembers growing up in nappies, and looks forward to the rest of his school career and life. story: Growing Up In Nappies- Part 1 I remember my first day of school, all those years ago. My parents had been trying to potty train me for months already. I had a potty in my room that I had been using almost every day, and every other night ... but the times they came to empty the potty were as frequent as the times they had to change my training pants. The day before school started they tried so hard to get me to prove I could stay dry, and they gave me a pair of big-boy underpants. I was so happy to get them! Something new and exciting for a five-year-old. But it wasn't even lunchtime before I'd wet them for the first time, and before I went to bed, they took off another soiled pair. When I went to sleep, I was in a nappy once again. The next morning, I didn't get the big-boy underpants again, but I didn't mind ... they turned out to be uncomfortable when I did my wees and poos in them, so they obviously weren't for me, I felt! My mother started the morning by changing me in to another nappy, not even a training pant, and said she was sure lots of other children wore nappies, too. Of course they did, I thought! As far as I was concerned, boys wore nappies (and I could only assume girls did, too) and the toilets were for grownups. My nappy was already wet when I walked away from my mum for the first time and entered the school. I can't remember all the details of that day, but what's very clear is the memory of sitting in my new chair and doing a poo in my nappy, watching the boy across from me fidgeting to try and stop going to the loo in his pants when the teacher said he'd have to wait to use the toilet, and wondering why he didn't just put on a nappy. It was only a few days later that I realised that I was the only person in the class who wandered off with the teacher's assistant once or twice a day to have my nappy changed - and I never felt that I was weird for it ... all I kept thinking was how strange it was of all the other boys and girls not to wear one, too! I guess that's why I suddenly became so much harder to potty train. When I began to realise that potty training would mean no more nappies and having to wait for the teacher to say I could do a wee or a poo, I resisted it. The potty in my room began to go completely unused, except for when my parents would try and make me sit on it for whatever reason. I would usually then just wait for them to give me a new nappy before I even tried to relieve myself. I wanted to keep them! They left it for my first year at school, then tried again over the summer holiday. That phase of toilet training must have lasted three years, as I was nine before they finally gave up and left me in nappies, assuming I would grow out of it. A year or two afterwards, they took me to doctors and had me tested for conditions, gave me medications, stuff like that ... nothing "worked" because there was nothing to cure. I just like my nappies and I wasn't giving them up. My parents were aggravated by this sometimes ... one time, for instance, they simply took away all my nappies for a few days and wouldn't buy me new ones. I was so confused by everything I just stayed in bed and cried, wetting the bed and making messes in it. They felt they were being cruel and gave me my nappies back. Later that year though, they tried something else - spanking me during every nappy change. That lasted a few months, but they gave it up when they realised it wasn't working. I stayed at that same primary school all the way through. The kids in my class grew up with me, and were perfectly used to my wearing a nappy. Some of them even changed me on occasion. And I did have a few friends - I'm not gonna pretend that the kid who wears nappies was super popular, but I wasn't unpopular either. Primary school didn't last forever, though. I knew that most of the people I would be at secondary school with were not from my last school, and they wouldn't be used to having a kid in nappies. Before I went, I was scared, and I even volunteered to try some potty training by myself. But at that time, wearing the nappy had become so ingrained, I couldn't shake it. I managed to make it to the toilet, or the large potty in my room my parents bought me, for a poo about four times out of five ... but the times wee and poo ended up in my nappy proved that there was no way I was heading to secondary school dry and in underpants. Before I started there, the head of the lower school assured me and my parents that I would not be the only person in my year or in the whole school who went to the sick room at least once a day for a nappy change, although he admitted most of those who did that had special needs. I was embarrassed at the prospect of ending up being known as the guy whose only friends are from the special classes ... I know that sounds mean, and I have nothing against anyone with special needs ... but I still wanted to try and be as popular as I could. On my first day, I tried to keep my nappy dry as long as I could, but I was so damn nervous that it ended up wet, just like my first day of school seven years previously. I knew from experience no-one could smell my nappies unless I did a poo, so I tried not to let my nervousness show. With any luck I could master holding on for poos and so I might have been able to get through the next few years with my nappies undetected. That first day's lunchtime, my form teacher discretely showed me where the sick room was. As promised, there was the short queue of people who wore nappies to school. Again, without wanting to sound mean, some of them were clearly from the special needs classes. The only ones who looked normal were a boy about my age (who I later found out was actually autistic) and another boy who must have been at least 16. My form teacher asked this boy to look after me. Even though he was five years older than me, Sam became a close friend of mine for the two years he was still at the school. He seemed to be as glad to find a "normal" nappy wearer as I was, even with the age gap. But it turned out I was na�ve to expect to get through all those years at secondary school without anyone finding out what was underneath my trousers the entire time. And unfortunately, I found out only one week in to my time there...
Growing Up In Nappies- Part 2 I was dead nervous about my first PE session. I knew what happened at boys' schools in the UK during the first term of the year, at least - rugby. I'd never played at Primary school, and it scared me a bit. It always looked so violent and all that. Not to mention it was the first time I'd be attempting to hide my nappy as I put on my kit in the changing rooms. Having both those things to be nervous about, I discussed them with Sam over lunch. He told me to try and enjoy it ... these experiences are what you make of them! And he told me that it would be easy to hide my nappy in the changing room as long as I got their early and got in to one of the cubicles instead of the main changing area. Taking heed of his advice, I asked if we could go change each other in the sick room straight away so I could head for the changing rooms afterwards. He said he didn't need a change, but we finished our lunches quickly and headed for the sick room. After he took my wet nappy off, I did a poo in to it so it was out of the way, then he cleaned me up and wrapped me in two nappies so I'd be well protected for the rugby. I went to pick up my kit bag and headed straight for the changing rooms ... there were only one or two guys dotted around the main area in various stages of undress. I gulped when I saw that the cubicles were only curtained off from view - there was no way to lock myself away from anyone who wanted to peak in and see me. Slowly telling myself that no-one would randomly want to see me undressing, I sidled in to an inconspicuous looking box in the corner of the changing room and closed the curtain behind me. For the first five minutes, I just sat on the little bench and stared at the curtain, testing my theory that no-one would want to open it, almost frozen in fear. When five minutes were up, though, the bell rang, and it wasn't long before every other boy in my year was filing in to the changing rooms... increasing the chances that one of them would see me. Ultimately, though, I wasn't as scared by this as I was the voice of the PE teacher shouting over the noise, "Anyone not ready to go in five minutes will be spending the next two hours running around the fields in whatever they happen to be wearing at that time!" Being unable to tell at this early stage of my school career whether or not he was joking, with shivering hands I pulled off my shirt, then shoes and socks. Taking a deep breath, my trousers came off last. I was standing just in my nappies for a second or two ... seconds that seemed like days as I desperately clambered in to my gym shorts, praying that they covered the white plastic of the nappies. After twelve years of wearing a nappy, I knew that the "bulge" didn't matter - people just assumed you had a big butt if they saw a bulge, which was fine by me, I had a big butt anyway. But it was the white plastic I had to be careful about hiding. Partially relieved to have them covered up once again in what I was supposed to be wearing, I pulled on my jersey, then the thick socks and rugby boots. With a minute or two still to spare, I reached in to my nappy and felt that I'd already wet myself ... not surprising when I was nervous, I suppose. And it was only the inside nappy that was wet, despite the slits, so far, so that wasn't too bad. Straightening up once again, I headed out in to the main changing room, mentally bracing myself against the one-hundred boys that I thought could start pointing and laughing at any moment ... but it never came. Feeling like a kid getting away with stealing sweets from a shop, I walked out of the changing rooms, where a number of other boys were already ready. It took nearly another ten minutes for everyone else to be ready, telling me that of course the teacher was kidding after all. But in those ten minutes, it was just time to get more nervous. Other boys around me were talking about how much they were looking forward to rugby, which only made me more nervous. I sat on a bench outside to wait. Suddenly I felt, with panic, the feeling I'd only just started getting used to - I needed to poo again. I looked hastily towards the changing rooms, where there were toilets, but the teacher had finally come out of there with the last of the boys, and was directing everyone towards the field. It was too late. I was so nervous that I didn't want to get up from the bench, for fear that it would cause my muscles to let go and I'd shit my nappy. Seconds later, though, the teacher passed where I was and pointed towards me and some other boys, saying, "Let's go, lads!" as if we were about to do one of the most exciting things ever. Too scared of what would happen if I didn't do so, I got up and started walking, concentrating hard on not pooing. When we got to the fields, the teacher lined us up, and once everyone was ready, said, "Right, lads. One of the most important skills in rugger, what we're gonna practice today, is tackling." That was too much ... first day on the job, and we were getting right in there with the most violent (as I saw it) thing. I let go of the concentration on my but to soak in the fact we were about to have to push each other around ... and so my butt felt that it was okay to let go. I let a load in to my nappy, and once I'd started I couldn't stop. With my cock joining in the fun, I wet and messed the doubler more, probably, than the one Sam had just taken off me not twenty minutes ago. As this only made me more nervous, I struggled to pay attention to what the teacher was telling us to do. After a warm up run and stretches, all during which the nappy's load was shifted around significantly, giving me an oddly pleasant feeling in an unpleasant setting, we got in to pairs. I was paired with someone who wasn't even in my form, whose name I didn't know. With black hair and an oddly mature stature for a twelve-year-old, I thought he was kind of cute, but didn't have time to think about that. I was supposed to tackle him to the ground, then be tackled by him, all the while hoping that while we were doing it, he didn't smell the firm load of crap nestled against my backside. The teacher blew his whistle, and I ran towards my partner. He tried to dodge me, but I stuck on course, grabbed him round the waist and got him to the floor. I had to admit to myself that it was a bit of fun. He smiled at me and said, "Good job!" I wondered if his demeanour meant that he'd played rugby before. We got up and got a distance away again, and a minute or two later the teacher blew the whistle again. This time, I was really nervous ... I was about to be pushed to the ground. As my partner got close, I chickened out and got out of his way. But he seemed to mistake it for sportsmanly dodging, and followed me. I continued to try and get out of his way, and put my hand out to prevent him from knocking me down. Clearly determined though, he grabbed me by the waist of my shorts and pulled me to the ground with him. At first it was a shock, but it didn't take me long to realise it didn't hurt as much as I thought it would, and eventually I smiled and exhaled in relief. Then, I realised he was still held on to the waist of my shorts ... and he had pulled them down ever so slightly. I was lying on my front, and I craned my neck around to see him lying similarly, with his hand pulling down on the shorts, his eyes focussed widely on the top of my nappies. Promptly, his mouth spread in to a wicked smile, and with strong hands, and with no resistance from me, petrified, he pulled my shorts down all the way and said, loud enough for at least the closest dozen boys to hear, "Lewis, are you wearing a nappy!?" with a laugh. Everyone stopped what they were doing, and the laughing and pointing quickly spread around the entire group. I shook off my fear as it quickly turned to embarrassment, and still lying down, I took both my hands to the edges of my shorts to pull them back up again, but I couldn't against the stronger hand of my partner. Quickly, but not quickly enough, the teacher intervened and got the boy off me so I could pull my shorts back up with tears in my eyes. He stopped everyone laughing, told him to run laps for the rest of the session, and continued to try and teach the rest of us rugby. Mere hours later, though, we were back in the changing rooms. Enough people ran ahead of me to take up the cubicles so I was forced back in to the main changing area. Intellectually, I now knew I had nothing to hide, and like back at primary school, everyone could see my nappy because everyone knew it was there. But I still felt scared at pulling my shorts down, which I eventually had to do. "Oooo, nice nappy, Lewis," said the nearest person. Another half a dozen laughed. "Wait," said another, "eeew, Lewis, have you actually shat yourself?" I turned beetroot red, realising that now we were away from the fresh air, it was easier to smell the contents of my nappy. Unexpectedly, at that point, I felt a spank on my butt. I whipped round to see the spanker laughing himself to death as if he'd just told the best joke the school had ever heard. Other people were laughing too. One said, "It's only fair! My little brother gets spanked when he wets himself." "Well, in that case," said another voice. It belonged to my partner, who'd returned from his laps. With the same strong arms, he grabbed my hands, pulled me towards him as he sat on a bench and tugged me over his knees. He then started to give me a proper over-the-knee spanking. It wasn't to hurt me, they were just light spanks, and I cried because of the embarrassment, not the pain. His hand contacted the back of my dirty nappy about ten times before the loud voice of the PE teacher bellowed, "That's enough!!!" The boy was taken off to see the head teacher, and everyone else was told to let me change in peace. I was never treated that badly about my diapers by anyone ever again at the school. People clearly got over the novelty and didn't want the same punishment as that boy, who turned out to be called Terence, got - he was put in a month's worth of Saturday detentions. But, with my secret out already, life was never normal for me at school...