Quote Originally Posted by sandra-leigh View Post
A number of months ago, perhaps even a year or more ago, someone did one of those "What if your wife came home one day and wanted to start wearing a packer?" type of threads, except they phrased it in such a way as to compare crossdressers to the Adult Children community. There was a fair bit of negative response, partly because the original poster in that thread phrased it in terms of cross-dressers being freaks (or at least would, to the general public, be perceived as being as much of a freak as an Adult Child would likely be perceived.)


Myself, I recognize that I am not comfortable with Adult Children, and my instinct is that there is a big gap between crossdressing and Adult Children -- but I do not have available a rationale for asserting that such a gap exists, so I do not presently claim that my instinct has objective truth. Prejudice, perhaps.
I'm sure the adult children would think that there's a big gap between them and CDers also--but they'd believe that "THEY" are the more normal ones. That's because they're used to wearing diapers, so it doesn't same strange to them, just as CDing doesn't seem strange to you because you're used to it

I think your average person who belongs to neither group probably thinks of both groups as equally far away from the norm. Hard to prove without a survey though.