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 The Origins of ABDL

Why ask why?

I have been an ABDL blogger since 2008.

When my blog was in its early years, there wasn’t much in the way for ABDLs to express themselves. Most of our expression took place on websites created for ABDLs by ABDLs, and consisted of ‘bios’ - read by few - and forum pages. (Think Aby.com, RUPadded.com, ADISC.org, and the like). Social media websites like MySpace and Facebook often deleted kink accounts en masse and were avoided by the community. Microblogging site Tumblr had just been created, but wouldn’t become popular for several more years. And Twitter, currently the unofficial ‘home’ of the ABDL community, would take years to take hold.

So, for the first five-ish years of my blog’s existence, as it picked up steam and picked up readership, it was one of few places ABDLs could read a steady stream of ABDL content - and express themselves to a wide-ranging readership via ‘guest entries’.

It was also one of few places ABDLs could write someone and hope to receive an answer.

And write, ABDLs did. Over the years I received dozens upon dozens - into the hundreds, probably - of messages from ABDLs.

They concerned subjects of every type.

Comments on my blog content. Complaints about ABDL companies and products. Concerns about goings-on in the community. And questions about our ABDL-ness.

So many questions about our ABDL-ness.

I began asking questions in November 2010, in the form of a series of questions called What Makes Us Tick? I was unprepared for the popularity of that series, which I’d begun partly out of my own curiosity and partly as a ‘content filler’ of sorts. It quickly became apparent that many ABDLs had the same questions I did.

Over the years, as new ABDLs kept discovering my blog and the answers offered by other ABDLs, the questions began coming.

Those eventually lead me to create ‘The Q&A Series’ in February 2012. It began with a Q&A from Dinobaby, from Ireland. Over the years, nearly 120 ABDL’s would take the time to answer the questions, sharing their own ABDL ‘origin stories’ with me and my readers.

That, in turn, would increase the questions tenfold.

We have our own language.

If I were to turn to you on the subway and speak it, you’d understand me perfectly.

“Are you padded?”

“Hmm… you must’ve heard the crinkle?”

“Cushie?”

“Dry 24/7. Need that bulk.”

“Had those in my stash… until my last purge.”

“Fuck purging… my little is doing that right now.”

“Try taking him to CAP… that should cure him…”

“Doing that. We did Teddy once before.”

The people around us might think we’re crazy.

But we’d get it.

We understand each other.

Sometimes it seems like we’re the only ones who do…

We don’t realize that, of course…

…until we do our first internet search.

“Why do I like diapers?”

That’s often when we first come to realize we’re not alone.

Once we realize how ‘not alone’ we really are, a feeling of relief sweeps over us.

We realize we have a ‘second family’ out there.

A community.

People who understand us in a way nobody else could ever hope to.

Make it stand out

The Origins of ABDL Poll,2018

The Survey Says…

In late 2017 I decided to conduct a poll of the ABDL community.

I wanted to solicit, tabulate, and analyze responses from every single corner of the community. Littles, middles, bigs… ABs, DLs… men, women, trans… if someone felt like they were a part of our community, I wanted to find out where they fell, and how they felt about a number of different topics.