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Level: General | Status: Draft | Last Update: 18 Jan 2006| First: 18 Jan 2006
While the fantasies of ABDLs are more numerous and varied than the ABDLs themselves, there are some common elements.
Force or coercion is sometimes present in fantasies to remove guilt. The ABDL deflects the guilt of wanting to be put back in diapers by fantasizing that someone else forced it upon them. Superficially, this makes it someone else's fault.
ABDLs may enjoy looking at pictures showing who they want to be, as opposed to who they want to be with. For example, a heterosexual male AB may enjoy looking at pictures of men in diapers: He may be imagining himself as the men in the diapers.
A common fantasy among adult babies involves a permanent return to a more baby like position. This may involve being put back in diapers or returned to the nursery for the rest of their life. These fantasies may be enjoyed even by ABs who are consciously aware that they wouldn't want to give up their adult lives.
Modesty and self-consciousness are learned traits, not expected from infants and small children. Babies can be out in public in just a diaper and T-shirt, and can be changed openly. Adult Babies can't legally do these things, but commonly fantasize about it.
The individual ABDL may have other interests that have become integrated with AB/DL. For example, sissies are male ABs that have integrated the urge to be a baby with the urge to be female. They have an alter ego that is a baby girl. The urges may be fully integrated, and so only expressed together. Such an individual would simply want to be a baby girl, but not a baby boy or a woman. They also might be only partially integrated, so they might be expressed separately as well as together.
Another example are those who have integrated infantilism and a furry alter-ego. These people are called babyfurs. They fantasize about being puppies, kittens, or cubs. Typically, these baby animals would wear diapers and have other human traits as well.
Sissys and babyfurs are among many groups resulting from the integration of side-interests with infantilism. The combinations can themselves be combined in countless ways. For example, there are sissy babyfurs.
Level: General | Status: Draft | Last Update: 18 Jan 2006| First: 18 Jan 2006